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Projects/Programs

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Health Information Technology Usability

Completed
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provides financial incentives and other support to drive the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs. A recent report funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), however, identified key shortcomings

Human Factor Guidelines and Accessibility

Ongoing
With the aging of America, increasing prevalence of chronic disease and growing immigrant and minority populations in the U.S., there is the real potential for both unintentional traditional and digital health-care disparities. Health information technology (HIT) holds significant potential to

Human-Centered Cybersecurity

Ongoing
Championing the Human in Cybersecurity The Human-Centered Cybersecurity program within the NIST Visualization and Usability Group provides research evidence and guidance to policymakers, system engineers, organizational decision makers, and cybersecurity professionals so that they can make better

Interdisciplinary Projects

Ongoing
Current: DARPA CCU (Computational Cultural Understanding) ​ Past: IARPA MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) DARPA LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) and LoReHLT (Low Resource Human Language Technologies) DARPA BOLT (Broad

Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE)

Completed
ICE 2006 Workshop ICE 2006 consisted of a large-scale, open, independent technology evaluation of iris recognition technology. To guarantee an accurate assessment, the ICE measured performance with sequestered data (data not previously seen by the researchers or developers

Iris Exchange (IREX) 10: Ongoing Evaluation of Iris Recognition

Ongoing
IREX 10 is a continuing evaluation of automated iris recognition technology. Administered at the Image Group's Biometrics Research Laboratory (BRL), developers submit their matching software for analysis over sequestered test data. As an ongoing evaluation, developers may submit their software at

Iris Exchange (IREX) Overview

Ongoing
The data used in IREX comes from publicly available datasets and from operational data provided by various government and commercial entities. The publicly available data sets may be procured from the original sources; in general, NIST does not have license to redistribute any of the public datasets

Iris Experts Group - II Homepage

Ongoing
Documents for Public Comment Some of our IEG activities generate documents that may benefit from public comment. There are three general categories: Documents that are sent to OSAC for further work. Documents that are provided to another entity (e.g. FBI NGI) for dissemination. Documents that will

Iris Projects

Ongoing
IRIS Experts Group II Starting in June 2016, NIST is convening the Iris Experts Group as a series of colloquia addressing topics of interest to operational deployment of biometrics in the United States government and more broadly. Iris Exchange (IREX) The Iris Exchange (IREX) was initiated at NIST

Machine Translation

Ongoing
Current MT technology evaluation activities: OpenMT: A biannual NIST evaluation of text-to-text MT technology. Focus is placed on the core task of MT technology where information learned is applicable to other MT technology types. Past MT evaluation activities: LORELEI/LOREHLT, 2016-2019: Low

Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) Overview

Ongoing
MINEX III Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) III is a continuing test of INCITS 378 fingerprint templates, as established in Annex A of NIST SP 800-76-2. The test is used to establish compliance of template generators and template matchers for the U.S. Government's Personal Identity

Multiple Biometric Evaluation (MBE)

Completed
MBE 2D Still Update The evaluation of 2D face recognition algorithms yielded two reports. First, NIST Interagency Report 7709 gave results for both verification and identification algorithms. Second, the NIST Interagency Report 7830 surveyed compression and resolution parameters for storing face

Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC)

Completed
Background Over the last decade, numerous government and industry organizations have or are moving toward deploying automated biometric technologies to provide increased security for their systems and facilities. Six U.S. Government organizations recently sponsored the
N2N Challenge

Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Capture Challenge

Completed
Updates 12 December 2019: Data from the Challenge has been released as Special Database 302. Future updates with N2N data will appear on the Special Database 302 page. 16 September 2019: We have begun work with Certified Latent Print Examiners to annotate our dataset with EFS Profile 2 information

Next Generation Fingerprint Technologies

Ongoing
Contactless Fingerprint Capture This project is conducting research in support of emerging non-contact fingerprint acquisition devices. Issues being addressed include: data format standards, best practices, development of methods for certification testing, and assessment of interoperability with

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Ongoing
Evaluation of Latent Friction Ridge Technology As of May 2020, NIST is relaunching its latent fingerprint technology research and broadening it to all types of friction ridges, including palms. The new evaluation picks up and greatly enhances the concept of operations described in ELFT-EFS

Point and Shoot Face Recognition Challenge (PaSC)

Completed
Inexpensive "point-and-shoot" camera technology combined with social network technology motivates the general population to use face recognition technology. Users expect a lot; they want to snap pictures, shoot videos, upload, and have their friends, family and acquaintances more-or-less

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) program is an ongoing biometric technology evaluation program measuring the performance of fingerprint template generation and one-to-one verification software using vendor proprietary fingerprint templates

Safety-Related Usability Framework

Ongoing
NIST, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are collaborating on a multi-year research program aimed at building a principled framework for measuring the usability of health IT systems. The ultimate

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) Overview

Ongoing
SlapSeg04 was the first and evaluated a slap segmentation algorithm's ability to segment fingerprints that could be matched using high end fingerprint matching technology. SlapsegII started in 2009 and compares the slap segmentation algorithm's output to hand marked ground truth results. This

Speaker and Language Recognition

Ongoing
Current Speaker and Language Recognition technology activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. View the 2012 NIST SRE report. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- )

Speech Analytics

Ongoing
Current speech analytics work: OpenSAT is a new speech analytic evaluation series designed to include developers from multiple speech analytic technologies where common datasets are used in NIST evaluations. The goal is to bring together developers focused on different speech analytic tasks to