TigerAFIS Ranks Number 1 in the US Government NIST MINEX Testing

Also Receives Full MINEX Certification

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- TigerIT Bangladesh Limited, a
leading global provider of AFIS and identity management solutions, announced
today that the company's fingerprint matching and extracting algorithms proved
overall superiority and ranked number 1 in the Minutiae Interoperability
Exchange (MINEX) test by the NIST (National Institute of Standards &
Technology). The NIST test results were released on October 27, 2009 and
revealed that combination of the TigerAFIS enrollment template generator and
the matcher showed False Non-Match Rate 0.06% at a fixed False Match Rate of
0.01 for two fingers, outperforming everyone including former leaders NEC
(0.08%), Cogent (0.11%) and Sagem (0.12%).

The complete MINEX result can be found at
http://fingerprint.nist.gov/minex/Results.html, where the most significant
cells are marked in yellow, which denotes the accuracy of the combination of
vendors' own template generator and matcher.

Along with the best result for the combination of template generator and
matcher, both these components of TigerAFIS maintain high interoperability.
TigerAFIS combines its own false non match rate of 0.0006 with 0.0021 for
median for template matcher and with 0.0031 for median enrollment generator
into another best number among all of the vendors (the median is most relevant
as it helps to remove the irregularities caused by nearly non-compliant
vendors in the test). This result establishes that TigerAFIS template
generator manages to effectively filter out noisy minutiae and yet preserve
enough information to remain highly interoperable.

The growing use of biometrics for security applications in national-ID and
e-passport has focused attention on the importance of interoperability among
multiple matching systems. The MINEX test, conducted by NIST and sponsored by
the Justice Management Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the
Department of Homeland Security US-VISIT program, determines the feasibility
of using minutiae data for the exchange of fingerprint information between
dissimilar fingerprint matching systems.

TigerAFIS had demonstrated an excellent performance in NIST PFT test as well.

At a False Match Rate of 0.01%, TigerAFIS' accuracy for a two-finger match was
in the top three across all participants (47 SDKs) scoring a 99.9% True Match
Rate in average in the largest NIST dataset.

TigerAFIS is probably the fastest AFIS in the world with the highest accuracy
as of today. It has a speed of 30 million fingerprint matches per second
(measured in a dual QUAD core XEON 3.33 GHz server).

Further information can be found on the NIST web site at
http://fingerprint.nist.gov/minex/index.html .

About TigerIT:
TigerIT Bangladesh Limited, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a
full-service developer of multimodal biometric identity solutions for both
government agencies and the private sector. TigerIT is routinely considered by
many to employ the most experienced and capable development team in
Bangladesh. Some of the end-customers that benefit from TigerIT include global
Fortune 500 corporations. TigerIT solutions are developed in both an ISO
9001:2008 and ISO 14000:2004 certified environment.

Web: www.tigeritbd.com

SOURCE TigerIT Bangladesh Limited

Mahbubul Alam of TigerIT Bangladesh Limited, +1-201-204-9427,
info@tigeritbd.com