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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-

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

The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT)

December 15, 2017
Author(s)
Afzal A. Godil, Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan
The report describes and presents the results for text detection and recognition (TRAIT) evaluation in support of forensic investigations of digital media. These im- ages are of interest to NIST’s partner law enforcement agencies that seek to employ text

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

Documentation for ROC Baseline 2016

July 13, 2016
Author(s)
James R. Matey, Su L. Cheng, Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Elham Tabassi, Craig I. Watson
We present ROC baseline data to support the recommendations in Matey et al [6].

Tattoo Recognition Technology - Challenge (Tatt-C): Outcomes and Recommendations

September 15, 2015
Author(s)
Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother
Tattoos have been used for many years to assist law enforcement in investigations leading to the identification of both criminals and victims. A tattoo is an elective biometric trait that contains additional discriminative information to support person