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NIST’s second Innovative Technologies Showcase, a setting where three NIST researchers will present their latest and greatest technology, has gotten off to a
The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT) is being conducted to assess the capability of text detection and recognition algorithms to
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This document describes a new approach to localizing the iris boundaries in non-ideal iris images. The proposed algorithm starts by applying a series of
This report quantifies the accuracy of passive purely software-based face presentation attack detection (PAD) algorithms operating on conventional 2D imagery of
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini
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