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ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Ongoing
Recent Announcements Save the Date: NIST welcomes your participation in the ANSI/NIST-ITL in-person workshop on April 22-24, 2025 to update the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard. The workshop will be held at the NIST NCCoE facility in Rockville, Maryland. In-person participation is strongly encouraged and

Biometric Compression Information

Ongoing
Friction Ridge Compression On February 24, 2014 we proudly announced the release of the final version of this guidance! You can download the final version of the guidance here: NIST Special Publication 500-289 Final (02/24/2014) More recently, on April 7, 2016, we're proud to announce the release of

Biometric Quality

Ongoing
Quality analysis is a technical challenge because it is most helpful when the measures reflect the performance sensitivities of one or more target biometric matchers. NIST addressed this problem in August 2004 when it issued the NIST Fingerprint Image Quality algorithm, which was designed to be

Biometric Usability

Ongoing
The Visualization and Usability Group conducting research on the usability of biometrics. With the plans for integrating biometrics into many areas of government and public life, the importance of usability research has increased. We hope this site can broaden the awareness of what usability

Biometrics Web Services (BWS)

Ongoing
News A WS-Biometric Devices Walkthrough is now available. This document provides step by step instructions to develop a WS-BD web camera service. NBIS.Net 5.0.0 is available. This release provides access to NBIS 5.0.0 functionality from within any .Net language. NIST has published an updated

Conformance Testing of JPEG 2000 CODEC's

Ongoing
Those suppliers wishing to submit NIST Special Publication 500-289 implementations of JPEG 2000 CODECs for conformance testing to NIST must follow the procedures, outlined in NIST Special Publication 300. This includes obtaining a NIST assigned encoder identifier, downloading the NIST reference

Contactless Fingerprint Capture

Ongoing
Conventional fingerprint sensors require a person to touch the device platen or sensor. Disadvantages to this mode of acquisition include the time required to collect (particularly rolled)prints as well as hygiene concerns. The government has funded research for the development of fast-capture non

Content-Based Access to Unstructured Information

Ongoing
The goal of the project is to support the development of automatic systems that can provide content-based access to information that has not been explicitly structured for machine consumption. This support is in the form of evaluation infrastructure, since to quote Lord Kelvin, "If you can not

Data Science

Ongoing
Current MIG Data Science project activities DARPA D3M. NIST is supporting the DARPA D3M (Data-Driven Discoveries of Models) program as part of the Test and Evaluation (Government) Team. The D3M Program aims to allow automated systems with subject matter experts to model and solve complex machine
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Digital Video Exchange Standards

Ongoing
NIST is working to develop a data export standard in conjunction with the stakeholder community. The goal of standardization is to increase evidentiary value and timeliness of CCTV video data; and to facilitate interoperable data sharing between CCTV/DVR owners and Law Enforcement; as well as among

Face Challenges

Ongoing
Introduction In cooperation with IARPA, NIST is currently running three challenges related to processing of unconstrained in-the-wild face images. These are intended to drive research and development into face detection, verification, identification, and identity clustering. A secondary goal is to

Face and Ocular Challenge Series (FOCS)

Completed
Overview The goal of the Face and Ocular Challenge Series (FOCS) is to engage the research community to develop robust face and ocular recognition algorithms along a broad front. Currently the FOCS consists of three tracks: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (GBU); Video; and Ocular. These

Face Projects

Face Technology Evaluations - FRTE/FATE 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

Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC)

Overview of the FRGC Not since the mid 1990s has there been such a renewed interest in developing new methods for automatic face recognition. This renewed interest has been fueled by advances in computer vision techniques, computer design, sensor design, and interest in fielding face recognition
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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 Recognition Technology (FERET)

Ongoing
Instructions on getting FERET database Introduction Department of Defense (DoD) Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office sponsored the Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program. The goal of the FERET program was to develop automatic face recognition capabilities that could be employed to

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT)

Ongoing
Ongoing FRVT Activities FRVT: FACE MASK EFFECTS NIST has published NISTIR 8331 - Ongoing FRVT Part 6B: Face recognition accuracy with face masks using post-COVID-19 algorithms on November 30, 2020, the second out of a series of reports aimed at quantifying face recognition accuracy for people

Face in Video Evaluation (FIVE)

2024-01-23 FIVE 2024 Announced! The Face in Video Evaluation (FIVE) 2024 is being conducted to assess the capability of face recognition algorithms to correctly identify or ignore persons appearing in video sequences – i.e., the open-set identification problem. For more information, please visit the

Fast Tenprint Capture

Completed
September 2007: Framework We presented the framework regarding the evaluation of 3-D fingerprint image capture devices at the Biometric Consortium Conference at Baltimore. You may download the presentation. January 2008: Meeting We had a meeting with Dr. Stanley Erickson, who is the sponsor

Fingerprint

Fingerprint Recognition We conduct technology evaluations of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification systems. Fingerprint Compression To establish normative guidance and certification pathways for the compression of fingerprint imagery. ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard The

Fingerprint Compression

Ongoing
Biometric Compression Information In July of 2009 NIST in partnership with the FBI commenced an investigation on the use of JPEG 2000 for compressing fingerprint imagery with the ultimate goal to establish a normative guidance and certification pathway for the compression of 1000 ppi friction ridge

Fingerprint Recognition

Ongoing
N2N Fingerprint Capture Challenge IARPA has invited the biometrics research community to participate in the Nail-to-Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Capture Challenge. This official U.S. Government Challenge problem seeks to reward researchers for creating autonomous rolled capture devices whose images

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE)

Completed
The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) is an independently administered technology evaluation of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification system. It has been rebranded as FRIF TE E1N.