The Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX) is an ongoing evaluation of the INCITS 378 fingerprint template. The test program has two mandates:
The test follows the approach of NIST's MINEX04 test. That program evaluated the products of fourteen vendors and was used in establishing an initial compliance for the PIV program.
The Ongoing MINEX program evaluates template encoding and matching software submitted to NIST in the form of an SDK library. This SDK must implement the MINEX API specification available on this site. This involves, at a minimum, the submission of a SDK that provides functionality to create MINEX compliant templates based on individual fingerprint images. Participants are encouraged to also provide a template matching function.
Participants in the Ongoing MINEX test may optionally submit their products to establish PIV Compliance in accordance with section 7.4.1 of NIST Special Publication 800-76-1 "Biometric Data Specification for Personal Identity Verification"..
Upon completion of MINEX testing, if the submitted SDK meets the performance
criteria defined by NIST, it shall be considered MINEX compliant
and listed on this site.
Additional information will be posted at this website as it becomes available.
Interested parties should send contact information (name, email, telephone) to:
minex@nist.gov
MINEX is a project of NIST's
Information Technology Laboratory's
Information Access Division
NIST is an agency of the
U.S. Commerce Department's
Technology Administration.
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Created April 18, 2006.