Press Release


                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1


                VISIONICS RECEIVES AN INVESTMENT OF $5.9 MILLION

MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA AND JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - July 2, 2001 - Visionics
Corporation (Nasdaq: VSNX), the worldwide leader in identification technologies
and systems, announced today that it has completed a $5.9 million private
placement of common stock and common stock warrants. The investment was led by
Special Situations Funds with additional participation from the Company's
current largest institutional holder, Perkins Capital Management. The
investment-banking firm of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. acted as the placement
agent.

"We are pleased to welcome Special Situations Funds as institutional investors
in our company," said Dr. Joseph J. Atick, President and CEO of Visionics
Corporation. "Visionics is known throughout the industry as innovators and
leaders. This investment will help us cement this leadership and strengthen the
value of our business lines. It will allow us to create the foundation, through
the completion of the Biometric Network Platform, for the scalable delivery of
biometrics on any point of action and on any device. Furthermore, we intend to
accelerate our marketing efforts, which will help propel our future growth and
maximize shareholder value," he added.

Under terms of the financing, Visionics sold approximately 1.3 million shares at
$4.50 per share. In addition, the Company issued warrants for approximately
326,000 shares at $5.66 per share and 326,000 shares at $6.79 per share. These
warrants are callable when the Company's stock price exceeds 150 percent of the
warrant price for twenty consecutive trading days. Fully exercised, these
warrants would raise an additional $4.1 million for the Company.

Visionics intends to immediately register the shares and the shares underlying
the warrants by filing a Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

ABOUT VISIONICS CORPORATION
Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNX) is the worldwide leader in identification
technologies and systems. Through its respective business lines - FaceIt(R),
live scan, IBIS and BNP - the company delivers enabling technology, platforms,
products and systems for biometric identification, with a specific focus on face
recognition and forensic quality fingerprint identification. The award-winning
FaceIt(R) technology enables a broad range of products and applications built by
partners (OEMs, VARs and system integrators). These include enhanced CCTV
systems, identity fraud applications and authentication systems for information
security, access control, travel, banking and e-commerce. The TENPRINTER and
FingerPrinter CMS live scan systems are the most widely used by government
agencies, law enforcement, airports, banks and other commercial institutions in
the US. The IBIS is a revolutionary mobile identification





system that combines expertise in biometric capture and connectivity, and is
capable of capturing both forensic quality fingerprints and photographs for
transmission to law enforcement and other legacy databases. Finally, the BNP is
a revolutionary platform for building scalable biometric solutions. These lines
of business as a whole are reflective of Visionics' leadership position in the
biometric industry and commitment to the innovation of identification
technologies.

More information on Visionics can be accessed via the Company web site at
http://www.visionics.com or by calling Frances Zelazny, Director of Corporate
Communications at +1 201-332-9213.

THE SECURITIES ISSUED PURSUANT TO THE PRIVATE PLACEMENT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES
ABSENT REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.

THIS NEWS RELEASE CONTAINS FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES THAT MAY CAUSE ACTUAL RESULTS TO DIFFER
MATERIALLY FROM THOSE PROJECTED ON THE BASIS OF SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS.
SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE MADE BASED ON MANAGEMENT'S BELIEFS, AS WELL
AS ASSUMPTIONS MADE BY, AND INFORMATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO, MANAGEMENT
PURSUANT TO THE "SAFE-HARBOR" PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION
REFORM ACT OF 1995. FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THESE AND OTHER RISK
FACTORS WHICH MAY AFFECT THE FUTURE PERFORMANCE OF VISIONICS CORPORATION, SEE
"RISK FACTORS" IN DIGITAL BIOMETRICS' ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K FOR THE PERIOD
ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2000 AND ITS QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q FOR THE PERIOD
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2000, FORM 8-K DATED FEBRUARY 15, 2001 AND THE RELATED FORM
8-K/A, ALL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN FILED WITH THE SEC.