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The NIST open-source fingerprint minutiae matching algorithm distributed as part of the NIST NBIS toolkit. Rotation- and translation-invariant. Serves as the reference algorithm for NIST benchmark evaluations. Outperformed by modern commercial deep-learning matchers, particularly on latent-to-ten-print tasks.

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