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IREX Validation Dataset 2019

September 16, 2019
Author(s)
James R. Matey, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother
The IRis EXchange (IREX) program at NIST employs best measurement practices to support the development, standardization, and interoperability of iris-based technology through ongoing evaluations of that technology; IREX evaluations provide information that

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 2: Identification

September 13, 2019
Author(s)
Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Kayee Hanaoka
This report updates and extends NIST Interagency Report 8238, documenting performance of new face recognition algorithms submitted for evaluation to NIST in November 2018. The algorithms implement one-to-many identification of faces appearing in two-

Compression Guidance for 1000 ppi Palm and Hand Friction Ridge Imagery

July 2, 2019
Author(s)
John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Craig I. Watson
NIST provided in a special publication guidance for the compression of 1000 ppi fingerprint images using Part I of the JPEG 2000 standard. The present document extends the Guidance to the compression of 1000 ppi palm and whole-hand images. The NIST

Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Enrollment Set Size Variability

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Kenneth Ko, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate
In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge. Thousands of latent fingerprint images collected at the Challenge were searched against rolled

Ongoing Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 2: Identification

November 27, 2018
Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, Kayee K. Hanaoka
This report documents performance of face recognition algorithms applied to the one-to-many identification of faces appearing in portrait images. The primary dataset is comprised of 26.6 million reasonably well controlled live photos of 12.3 million

Iris Cameras: Standards Relevant for Camera Selection - 2018

September 18, 2018
Author(s)
James R. Matey, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, Craig I. Watson, Shahram Orandi
This paper is a summary of our current recommendations for iris camera selection. NIST is developing these recommendations in collaboration with the FBI, other US Government entities with interests in the use of iris recognition technology, and the larger

Performance Analysis of the 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

September 2, 2018
Author(s)
Omid Sadjadi, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Craig Greenberg, Douglas A. Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
The 2017 NIST language recognition evaluation (LRE) was held in the autumn of 2017. Similar to the past LRE's, the basic task in LRE17 was language detection, with an emphasis on discriminating closely related languages (14 in total) selected from 5

Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

July 27, 2018
Author(s)
John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Stephen S. Wood, Michael D. Garris, Kenneth Ko, Frederick R. Byers, Craig I. Watson
This document details efforts undertaken by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop measurements and a protocol for the evaluation of contactless (touchless) fingerprint acquisition devices. Contactless fingerprint capture

NIST Special Database 301: Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge Dry Run

July 11, 2018
Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, Matthew Schwarz, Elham Tabassi, Christopher Boehnen
In April 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) held a dry run for the data collection portion of its Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Challenge. This data collection event was designed to ensure that the real data collection

Guidelines for the Use of PIV Credentials in Facility Access

June 29, 2018
Author(s)
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan L. Mehta, Nabil Ghadiali, Jason Mohler, Vincent Johnson, Steven Brady
This recommendation provides a technical guideline to use Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards in facility access; enabling federal agencies to operate as government-wide interoperable enterprises. These guidelines cover the risk-based strategy to

The 2017 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation

June 26, 2018
Author(s)
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Audrey N. Tong, Craig S. Greenberg, Douglas Reynolds, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2017, NIST conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of Language Recognition Evaluations (LRE) meant to foster research in robust text- and speaker-independent language recognition, as well as measure performance of current state-of-the-art systems

NIST Special Database 300: Uncompressed Plain and Rolled Images from Fingerprint Cards

June 14, 2018
Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John M. Libert
A new collection of legacy inked rolled and plain fingerprint card scans are being released to the public. The cards were scanned at three resolutions in the 8 bit grayscale colorspace. The data is available as lossless images for free.

Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Prize Analysis

May 3, 2018
Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate, Christopher Boehnen
In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge. Participating Challengers deployed devices designed to collect an image of the full nail to nail

IREX IX Part One, Performance of Iris Recognition Algorithms

April 18, 2018
Author(s)
George W. Quinn, James R. Matey, Patrick J. Grother
Iris Exchange (IREX) IX is an evaluation of automated iris recognition algorithms. The first part of the evaluation is a performance test of both verification (one-to-one) and identification (one-to-many) recognition algorithms over operational test data

Latent Fingerprint Value Prediction: Crowd-based Learning

December 31, 2017
Author(s)
Elham Tabassi, Anil K. Jain, Tarang Chugh, Kai Cao, Jiayu Zhou
Latent fingerprints are one of the most crucial sources of evidence in forensic investigations. As such, devel- opment of automatic latent fingerprint recognition systems to quickly and accurately identify the suspects is one of the most pressing problems

The 2017 IARPA Face Recognition Prize Challenge (FRPC)

November 27, 2017
Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, Lars Ericson, Kayee K. Hanaoka, Christopher Boehnen
This report documents NIST’s execution of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Face Recognition Prize Challenge 2017. The (FRPC) was conducted to assess the capability of contemporary face recognition algorithms to recognize faces
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