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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 be submitted for publication.

Lists of documents that are out for public comment and the rules regarding such comment may be found at  Iris Experts Group Public Comments.

Discussion Groups:

The IEG supports ongoing, online discussion groups on relevant topics.

As of October 2024,  the Discussion Groups have been consolidated.  See IEG: Discusssion Groups

Mailing List

Send a note to IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov)

If you wish to be added to (or dropped from) the mailing list for IEG-II. Please include your name, affiliation and an affiliated email address. On an annual basis, we review our mailing lists and purge addresses that are bouncing. 

mailto:ieg-ii [at] nist.gov subject=IEG General Mailing List – Add   
mailto:IEG-II [at] nist.gov subject=IEG General Mailing List – Drop 

Recent Announcements:

10/24/2024  IEG Annual Meeting 2025

The 2025 meeting will be held on June 26, 2025.  We hope to make this hybrid, with the physical meeting in newly renovated spaces at NIST.  Details to follow. 

Please send recommendations for topics & speakers to ieg-ii [at] nist.gov (ieg-ii[at]nist[dot]gov) .

10/24/2024  Recent IEG Success Stories

The FBI NGI Iris Service has posted documents that the IEG created or contributed to:  see https://fbibiospecs.fbi.gov/biometric-modalities-1/ngi-iris-services  Resources

• IREX-V

• Iris Camera Selection Guidance

• Forensic Iris: A Review

OSAC is processing two documents that came out of our discussion groups:

• OSAC 2024-N-0004, Standard Guide for Capturing Iris Images for Use with Iris Recognition Systems : completed OSAC review, sent to ASTM

• OSAC 2024-N-0005 Standard Guide for Minimum Training Recommendations of Iris Image Examiners : in review at OSAC

Thanks to all who contributed.

10/24/2024  IEG Discussion Group Updates

• The original tasks for the IEG discussion groups are largely completed (see 10/24/2024  Recent IEG Success Stories above). 

  • As a result the groups are undergoing a reorganization.  See the updated Discussion Group section.

• We setup a process for soliciting public comments.

   

06/12/2024 Annual Meeting on Thursday 06/13/2024: Updated agenda

An updated agenda is available at here

04/12/2024  Annual Meeting:  Registration & Agenda

Registration for our annual meeting on Thursday, June 13, 2024 is now open at  https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2024-iris-experts-group-ieg-meeting .

• The meeting is pure virtual via Zoom.  All attendees, including NIST staff and speakers must register in order to get the link to the meeting.  

• The link will be sent to registrants on June 12.

• Please register early.  It is easier for our meeting staff to deal with a few no shows than the same number of late registrations.

• The current agenda(and any subsequent update) is available here . 

• Speakers are confirmed, but some details may change.  Please check the agenda the day before the meeting to be sure of times.Registration is open until COB on June 11. 

Registration questions may be directed to  pauline.truong [at] nist.gov (pauline[dot]truong[at]nist[dot]gov) , our POC for NIST Meeting Services.
Questions about the agenda and other technical questions may be directed to james.matey [at] nist.gov (james[dot]matey[at]nist[dot]gov).
 

02/09/2024

1. Reminder:  Our next annual meeting is planned for Thursday, June 13, 2024.  We hope to make this a hybrid meeting.  Suggestions for topics/speakers may be sent to james.matey [at] nist.gov (James Matey).
2. We are delighted to report that two standards documents originally drafted and reviewed by our IEG Discussion Groups have been passed on to OSAC and are now up for public comment at the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) website.  These documents will eventually be sent to ASTM for ASTM review, approval and publication.  Anyone with an interest in the documents can find them at
   • OSAC 2024-N-0004, Standard Guide for Capturing Iris Images for Use with Iris Recognition Systems
   • OSAC 2024-N-0005, Standard Guide for Minimum Training Recommendations of Iris Image Examiners
   • Comments  on the documents can be submitted using the  OSAC comment form at https://www.nist.gov/document/osac-20-public-comment-tablesept-2021 ;  comments should be sent to comments [at] nist.gov (comments[at]nist[dot]gov) by 11:59 pm EST March 4^th.

             Thanks to all the folks who participated in the preparation of these documents.

3. If there are any additional topics that might benefit from discussion within the IEG discussion groups and submissions to OSAC,  feel free to make suggestions to james.matey [at] nist.gov (james[dot]matey[at]nist[dot]gov) or blretton [at] fbi.gov (blretton[at]fbi[dot]gov)

IEG Announcements Archive

Background:

During the period 2009 to 2014, an informal series of meetings were conducted on a semi-annual basis to discuss US government (USG) interests in iris recognition. Attendance was by invitation and the attendees were either USG staff who had interest in the questions submitted for discussion or recognized experts in some aspect of iris recognition who might reasonably be expected to help formulate answers to the questions. The meetings were called meetings of the Iris Experts Group (IEG) and were generally regarded as helpful in formulating answers to technical questions about iris recognition for the USG.

Purpose:

In 2015 NIST was asked to restart the group.  Under a new name, IEG-II, the group remains a forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to USG agencies and their staff that are employing or may employ iris recognition to carry out their mission.  IEG-II will continue to solicit questions of interest from the USG community and to invite iris experts to make relevant presentations, discuss those questions and make recommendations regarding answers to the questions.  It will also entertain suggestions from the wider community regarding topics/questions that the USG community should be considering.  Topics that are taken under consideration for future meetings will be posted below.

Meetings:

The IEG meetings are normally held in the Washington DC area (NIST Gaithersburg MD as a default).  Teleconferences can be setup to explore topics outside of the in-person meetings.  Speakers will be explicitly invited; potential speakers may submit proposals for presentations on topics of interest to USG.  Anyone may register to attend.  Normally, there is no registration fee.  Attendees must have credentials that will enable them to visit the NIST campus – see https://www.nist.gov/about-nist/visit .  The coordinators for the meetings are James Matey and Patrick Grother, reachable via IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov)

People who wish to suggest topics for discussion at future IEG-II meetings or to make proposals regarding presentations  on topics should send a message to IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov). Please include either "IEG-II: Presentation Proposal - ..." or "IEG-II: Topic/Question Proposal - ..." along with a brief description in the subject line.  The body of the emails should be sufficiently detailed to enable the organizers to assess the proposals.  

Mailing List:

Send a note to IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov) if you wish to be added to (or dropped from) the mailing list for IEG-II. Please include your name, affiliation and email address.

IEG-II Links

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