Brazil-based biometrics providerGriauleranked sixth among global providers in fingerprint recognition accuracy—and first in Latin America—in an evaluation by NIST, according to a company announcement.
To date, NIST has evaluated 32 fingerprint biometrics providers under the MINEX III program.
Griaule’s results in the Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) III include a false non-match rate (FNMR) of 0.0064 percent at a false match rate (FMR) of 0.0001 in “native” single-finger comparisons. In MINEX, “native” refers to matches performed on templates created using the same biometric provider’s generator, while “pooled” refers to match attempts using templates from various compliant generators.
In the comparison of both index fingers—which Griaule refers to as “the main test”—the company says it ranked third with an error rate of 0.022 percent. The leading matching algorithm is only slightly better, at 0.020 percent. Griaule’s pooled result by FNMR at FMR 0.01 was 0.00024, again only slightly behind the top FMR of 0.00022.
“This gap is minimal for a test that simulates real-world scenarios, and Griaule achieved performance very close to that of the world’s best algorithm,” says Thiago Ribeiro, Business Director at Griaule. “The main test simulates the situation where people place two fingers on the control sensor when entering a country. In practice, algorithms can prevent physical bottlenecks by reducing wait times at border control, without compromising identification effectiveness, and reinforcing the company’s commitment to the continuous development of cutting-edge technology to further combat identity fraud in the country.”
MINEX IIIevaluates fingerprint biometric template generation and matching algorithms to establish and confirm compliance with the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) program run by the U.S. government. Ribeiro notes in the announcement that Griaule has held PIV certification for years, but highlighted the improvements the evaluation reveals in the performance of its technology.
The company says it has received a total of about 30 international certifications and awards from world-renowned institutions such as NIST and the FBI.
Griaule provides biometric technology to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to manage the country’snational identity database, which contains nearly 160 million records.
This content was published on BiometricUpdate.com on July 14, 2026, and can be accessed at this link.
