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Biometric Technologies Group

The Biometric Technologies Group builds trust in identity for justice, homeland security, and commerce.

Biometric technologies are integral to the nation and their impact will only increase as needs and capabilities continue to evolve. The Biometric Technologies Group researches, develops, and applies measurement, benchmarking and evaluation methods, metrics, best practices, and standards to advance and promote the use of image-based biometric technologies and tools for human identity. The Group works closely with other government agencies, law enforcement, industry, and academia to support needs in the biometrics community. Our biometric programs promote accuracy and interoperability that support the governmentwide effort to collect superior quality biometric data, ensure the data collected is shareable between agencies, and that biometric systems are accurate.

Current Projects

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation III (SlapsegIII) 
Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:N 2018 Evaluation
Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) MORPH

News and Updates

Software

NFIQ 2

The biometrics community recommended a new, open source, generalized version of NFIQ to be developed in consultation and collaboration with users and industry.

Biometric Evaluation Framework

Biometric Evaluation Framework is a set of C++ classes, error codes, and design patterns used to create a common environment to provide logging, data management

NIST Biometric Image Software (NBIS)

Current Release: NBIS : Release 5.0.0 About The NIST Biometric Image Software (NBIS) distribution is developed by the National Institute of Standards and

Awards

Contacts

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