BiometricsWorld record in fingerprint identification: 129 million records in one second

DERMALOG Identification Systems, Germany’s largest biometrics manufacturer, claims it has set a new world record in the identification of fingerprints. The new system, known as DERMALOG Next Generation AFIS, is capable of correctly identifying the ten fingerprints of one individual within a second from a database of more than 129,296,050 fingerprints. The SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS has tested the product and supported the company’s claims about the solution’s capabilities.

Using an LF10 DERMALOG fingerprint live scanner, the ten fingerprints of one person were scanned and compared with a database of 100 million fingerprints representing ten million people, each having ten fingerprints. This corresponds to the approximate population of Portugal or the Czech Republic. From within this data pool, the ten scanned fingerprints were correctly identified within just 0.89 seconds on a standard blade server with twelve cores — making it, according to the company, a world record without compromising the FAR and FRR rates.

Günther Mull, founder and managing director at DERMALOG, said: “The result shows how accurately and fast our new software works. During the test everyone was identified correctly. There were no errors. And so our “Next Generation AFIS” has now set a new standard for speed and accuracy in fingerprint identification. The system is especially designed for use in conjunction with large-scale databases such as used at border checkpoints. That saves on long waiting times and enables speedy processing, with no errors in a second.”

Dr. Bernd Grabe from SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS commented on the test results, saying “As the speed of fingerprint searching increases, the accuracy of the results is often reduced. But no loss in quality was observed with the “DERMALOG Next Generation AFIS” despite its extremely high speed. And what is more it uses standard hardware.”