This article presents findings from the projects BioFace and BioFinger that realized at the Fraunhofer-IGD, Darmstadt, Germany in 2003. Firstly it discusses the topic of testing and benchmarking biometric face recognition systems and it reports on the project BioFace, which has tested the limitations of using face recognition. This is followed by selected findings from the BioFinger project regarding the distinction of similar fingerprints, aging properties and reduced sample sizes.
