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Information Technology

Biometrics

News and Updates

Events

ANSI Workshop

ANSI/NIST-ITL Update Workshop

Tue, Apr 22 - Thu, Apr 24 2025
Join us in Rockville for a directed discussion of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2025 standard update at the NIST NCCoE Facility

Projects and Programs

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

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

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.

Publications

Software

NFIQ 2

The biometrics community recommended a new, open source, generalized version of NFIQ to be developed in consultation and collaboration with users and industry.

Biometric Evaluation Framework

Biometric Evaluation Framework is a set of C++ classes, error codes, and design patterns used to create a common environment to provide logging, data management

Awards