TigerIT ranks first in US competition

TigerIT Bangladesh Ltd, a local IT firm, ranked first in the minutiae interoperability exchange test by US-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The purpose of the Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX) is to determine the feasibility of using minutiae data as an interchange medium for fingerprint information between different fingerprint matching systems.

This is recognition for Bangladesh for developing identity (ID) management, which may help local IT companies to get works from the global market, said Ziaur Rahman, chairman and chief executive officer of TigerIT Bangladesh.

"This recognition means we are the best in some sectors, such as making national ID cards and machine readable passports," he said.

MINEX is designed to evaluate whether various populations and combinations of encoding schemes, probe templates, gallery templates and fingerprint matchers will produce successful matches.

The recently published NIST test results revealed that a combination of the Tiger's AFIS (automated fingerprint identification system) enrolment template generator and the matcher showed false non-match rate of 0.06 percent at a fixed false match rate of 0.01 for two fingers.

It outperformed Japanese NEC's 0.08 percent, US-based Cogent's 0.11 percent and France's Sagem 0.12 percent.

TigerIT was earlier ranked second by NIST for developing an automated fingerprint identification system with high accuracy.