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Projects/Programs

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Statistical Friction Ridge Analysis (SFRA)

Ongoing
Introduction Friction ridge analysis in crime scene investigation is one of the crucial forensic methods to find the suspects and victims of crime and solve cases. Latent fingerprints—the friction ridge patterns from fingertips left at crime scenes and photographed or lifted from the surfaces—are

Tattoo Recognition Technology

Ongoing
Tattoo Recognition Technology - Evaluation (Tatt-E) Tatt-E is a large-scale sequestered evaluation of tattoo recognition algorithms to support operationally relevant use cases, including tattoo identification, region of interest, tattoo detection/localization, matching sketches. For more information

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Challenge (Tatt-C)

Completed
Tatt-C Dataset November 2, 2016: NIST has announced a follow-on activity to Tatt-C, which is a large-scale, sequestered evaluation called Tatt-E. Tatt-C Publications September 15, 2015: The first public report on Tatt-C has been published as NISTIR 8078 – Tattoo Recognition Technology – Challenge

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Evaluation (Tatt-E)

Completed
2018-Oct-31: Tatt-E report published The public report on Tatt-E has been published as NISTIR 8232 - Tattoo Recognition Technology - Evaluation (Tatt-E) Performance of Tattoo Identification Algorithms. The report documents empirical evaluation of 12 tattoo recognition algorithms from two providers

Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT 2016)

Ongoing
2017-DEC-15 – TRAIT Final Report now available The outcomes of the TRAIT activity have been published as NISTIR 8199 - The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT). 2016-SEPT-08 – Phase 3 API now available The C++ API for algorithms, validation package , participation

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

Ongoing
Its purpose was to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies. In particular, the TREC workshop series has the following goals: to encourage research in information retrieval based

TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation: TRECVID

Ongoing
The TREC conference series is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) with additional support from other U.S. government agencies. The goal of the conference series is to encourage research in information retrieval by providing a large test collection, uniform scoring

Usability and Public Safety Communications Research

Ongoing
First responders in public safety respond to emergency incidents to serve and protect their communities. The voices of first responders have often not been taken into consideration, especially when technology is developed for them but not with them. The National Institute of Standards and Technology

Usability Standards

Ongoing
We participate on the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 and ISO/TC 159/SC 4 as the WG28 Joint Working Group, US delegation co-convener, to develop standards for usability documentation. This family of standards provide a definition of the type and scope of formats and the high-level structure to be used for

Usability Testing

Ongoing
Usability testing refers to evaluating a product by testing it with representative users performing representative tasks. The goal is to identify any usability problems by collecting quantitative (e.g., time on task, errors and successful completion rates) and qualitative (e.g., comments, likes or

AI User Trust

Ongoing
The Visualization and Usability Group’s AI User Trust project provided foundational work for our new AI User Trust Measurement research, and continues to inform our larger Human-Centered AI program. Please read more about our current work on those pages. The information that follows is maintained

Video Analytics

Ongoing
Active evaluations/projects include: Activities in Extended Videos: The ActEV evaluation seeks to evaluate robust automatic activity detection algorithms for a multi-camera streaming video environment. ActEV will address activity detection for both forensic applications and for real-time

Voting Systems Usability and Accessibility

Ongoing
The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) gave NIST a key role in helping to realize nationwide improvements in voting systems. NIST performs research that examines the role of human factors in the design and application of next generation voting systems, including assistive technologies for individuals