GlobeNewswire Inc | Mar 23, 2021 09:00AM EDT

March 23, 2021

BEDFORD, Mass., March 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aware, Inc., (NASDAQ: AWRE), a leading global provider of biometric based authentication software products, solutions and services, has successfully completed the Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) III evaluation performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) an accomplishment only four other companies in the world have achieved. Awares performance in the PFT III was found to rank third overall for single fingerprint, and second for multiple finger fusion. Combined with its recent top ranking in NISTs MINEX III evaluation, Awares performance in the PFT III continues to assert its status as the pre-eminent 1:1 fingerprint matcher and template generator vendor in the world.

As a leading provider of fingerprint matching technology to U.S. federal government programs, Aware has an established track record of top level proven performance and accuracy for critically important use cases involving 1:1 and 1:Many fingerprint verification and identification. Awares fingerprint matching solutions are widely known for their speed and accuracy, and the completion of the PFT III further confirms Awares proprietary fingerprint matching technology to be among the best worldwide. This achievement is a demonstration of Awares commitment to advancing research and product development in the area of fingerprint biometrics, and to solidify its position as a premier, fully U.S. based vendor of such technology.

Top level performance and accuracy are critical elements of any fingerprint matching solution, and Awares completion of the PFT III evaluation continues to solidify our position amongst the elite in the industry, commented Dr. Mohamed Lazzouni, chief technology officer at Aware. When combined with our recently announced top ranking in NISTs MINEX III evaluation, Awares longstanding commitment to accuracy and performance becomes clear. We are proud of these results, and to be counted among the very best performers in the world.

The PFT III evaluates both the speed and accuracy of a companys proprietary fingerprint template as used in one-to-one matching. It supersedes the older PFT II test by evaluating the final stage of a one-to-many Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) on much larger and more diverse datasets. In contrast to standardized fingerprint templates, proprietary templates store a fingerprints features in a manner that can only be interpreted by the templates generator. Aware submitted its proprietary fingerprint biometric algorithms for testing on expanded two-finger and ten-finger datasets, as well as datasets that included rolled, plain optical and ink impressions at resolutions of500 and 1,000 pixels per inch.

Awares continually improving fingerprint generating and matching capabilities are used in itsAwareABISfamily of products, consisting of AwareABIS, AFIX and itsAstrasolution, and its many available SDKs.

More information about the entire suite of offerings from Aware can be found on Awareswebsite.

About AwareAware, a global leader inproductized biometrics software products, solutions and services,provides critical biometric functionality to collect, manage, process, and match biometric images and data for identification and authentication. With their decades-long experience, Aware leads the market in liveness detection and multi-modal fusion to protect client and business processes through fingerprint, face, iris, and voice matching algorithms, mobile biometric capture and authentication software, a biometric workflow and middleware platform, and a fully-scalable ABIS. Their device-agnostic, integration-ready, and customer-managed products enable ease-of-use for enterprises to empower individuals to own their identities. Aware serves customers across a multitude of industries, including financial services, enterprise security, healthcare, human resources, citizen ID, border management, law enforcement, defense, and intelligence. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq:AWRE) based inBedford, Massachusetts. To learn more, visit https://www.aware.comor follow Aware on Twitter@AwareBiometrics.

Aware is a registered trademark of Aware, Inc.

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