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Staff members of the Statistical Engineering Division regularly offer short courses on uncertainty analysis, design of experiments, and other topics in
In this project, we investigate appropriate uncertainty analysis and splicing algorithms for spectral data, especially fluorescence spectroscopy calibration, to
NIST is making advances in the science and technology for identification of firearms and tool marks; SED provides statistical analyses and designs as a vital
NIST is developing Wide Scale Digital Optical Microscopy (WISDOM) as an advanced measurement capability for imaging induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and
Smart manufacturing system development and operations are difficult to manage because information about the systems and their analysis is expressed in redundant
The primary goal of the US Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 276 Biotechnology
The Tattoo Recognition Technology Program features a family of activities designed with goals to evaluate and measure image-based tattoo recognition technology
The Tattoo Recognition Technology – Evaluation (Tatt-E) is being initiated by NIST to assess and measure the capability of systems to perform automated image
Security is becoming increasingly complicated and difficult both on technical grounds and on policy grounds. Technically, Federal agencies and other have to
The human brain does some types of information processing, like speech recognition, image recognition, or video processing, much more efficiently than can be
The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT) is being conducted to assess the capability of text detection and recognition algorithms to
Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have advanced so rapidly that they can now outperform humans at many (or even most) tasks. However, the large
High-end automated microscopes can acquire very large volumes of data, reaching into terabyte territory. These data volumes impose their own constraints. They
NIST is working with industry and academia to improve the trustworthiness and applicability of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to
NIST works with industry partners to advance the research, standardization and adoption of technologies necessary to increase the security, privacy, resilience
NIST is working with industry to design, standardize, test and foster adoption of network-centric approaches to protect IoT devices from the Internet and to
Theory and simulation are used to advance our understanding of pure and multicomponent fluids confined in tight spaces, such as the pores of a zeolite, metal
With the plans for integrating biometrics into many areas of government and public life, the importance of usability research has increased. As we began to
NIST is Working with other USG agencies and industry to develop and maintain the standards, test program, deployment guidance and test and measurement tools
ITL researchers realize that visualization of scientific data can provide an understanding of the phenomenon or data being studied. Visualization can be
The Waveform Metrology Project provides measurement and algorithmic support for waveform traceability to the optics and high-frequency electronics industries
Many enterprises have become driven by digital data, including manufacturing, engineering, and scientific domains. With the ubiquity of Web browsers and Web
This project aims to develop new modeling and measurement techniques of wireless coexistence systems to support the efficient use of the radio frequency (RF)
This WSQ testing is updated for "Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification Version 3.1" which is available at