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Projects/Programs

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Combinatorial Testing

Ongoing
For more information regarding the Combinatorial Testing, please visit the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC)..

Digital Forensics

Ongoing
The project team develops tools for testing computer forensic software, including test criteria and test sets. ITL also maintains the National Software Reference Library – a vast archive of published software applications that is an important resource for both criminal investigators and historians.

Face Recognition Prize Challenge 2017

Ongoing
Results From June to September 2017, NIST evaluated 41 face recognition algorithms from 16 developers. The algorithms were applied to datasets of 2D still photographs in two ways: verification of “wild” photojournalism and social media images, and identification of faces from surveillance videos

Face Technology Evaluations - FRTE/FATE

Ongoing
To bring clarity to our testing scope and goals, what was formerly known as FRVT has been rebranded and split into FRTE (Face Recognition Technology Evaluation) and FATE (Face Analysis Technology Evaluation). Tracks that involve the processing and analysis of images will run under the FATE activity

Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance

Ongoing
The Structured Software Assurance (SSA) task is investigating a methodology known as "structured assurance case models," which have been used extensively in assuring safety-critical systems and applications, for their potential application in assuring other software system qualities, such as

Software Performance Project

Completed
The mission of the Software Performance project is to strengthen the scientific foundations of software performance measurement ("metrology for IT"). Its goals are: Application: Replace unreliable common practices with rigorously-studied methods grounded in design of experiments Research: Solve