Five Vendors Meet All DHS Performance Goals in RIVR Selfie-to-ID Verification as Track 3 Liveness Results Emerge

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s 2025 Remote Identity Validation Rally (RIVR) has now produced results across two of its three evaluation tracks, with five vendors meeting all performance goals in the selfie-to-document matching evaluation and new liveness detection results published today.

In Track 1, which tested systems’ ability to match a live selfie to a government-issued ID document, 16 vendors were evaluated using 1,632 volunteers across multiple smartphone models and state ID formats at the Maryland Test Facility. Five systems met all DHS-defined high-performance goals for failure-to-extract rate, false match rate, and false non-match rate. Four of those five have publicly identified themselves: Paravision (MTDS 12), which reported the lowest false match rate with 26 false matches across nearly 8 million impostor comparisons; Aware (MTDS 1); Incode (MTDS 10); and Shufti. A fifth vendor met the goals but has not publicly disclosed its identity. DHS anonymizes all vendor names in published results.

Paravision was the only system to also meet the rally’s most demanding benchmark: maintaining a false match rate below 0.01 percent when tested against demographically similar impostors, a scenario designed to simulate look-alike fraud. DHS reported that for the median system, false match rates were approximately 11 times higher for demographically similar impostors than for randomly paired impostors.

For its part, Aware has announced results from Track 3 of RIVR, which evaluates presentation attack detection. The company said its Intelligent Liveness system, evaluated under aliases A1 and P2, achieved zero successful attacks across attack classes A and B in the active liveness evaluation while maintaining a bona fide presentation classification error rate below the 5 percent usability threshold. Aware also reported top-three rankings in user satisfaction across iOS and Android and top-two rankings in processing speed.

Track 2, which tested document validation capabilities, previously revealed significant gaps in the industry’s ability to detect fraudulent identity documents, with most systems failing to meet DHS performance goals.

The RIVR program, conducted by DHS Science and Technology in collaboration with TSA and NIST, is designed to establish operational benchmarks for remote identity verification technologies used in government services, financial onboarding, and secure digital access. Results are published through the Maryland Test Facility at mdtf.org.

Sources: Aware, Maryland Test Facility

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By Ji-seo Kim