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Information Technology

Biometrics

News and Updates

Events

Forensics@NIST 2024

FORENSICS@NIST 2024

Mon, Nov 18 - Thu, Nov 21 2024
THE MAIN EVENT: NOVEMBER 18-20, 2024 Join us virtually on Monday November 18th - Wednesday November 20th, 2024 to learn

Projects and Programs

Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT 2016)

Ongoing
2017-DEC-15 – TRAIT Final Report now available The outcomes of the TRAIT activity have been published as NISTIR 8199 - The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT). 2016-SEPT-08 – Phase 3 API now available The C++ API for algorithms, validation package , participation

Usability for Biometric Systems

Ongoing
In order to improve the usability of biometric systems, it is critical to take a holistic approach that considers the needs of users as well as the entire experience users will have with a system, including the hardware, software and instructional design of a system. Adopting a user-centric view of

Biometrics

With the need for improved homeland security, biometrics were identified as a key enabling technology. NIST (because of its mission and track record) supports the government-wide effort to increase the collection of good quality biometrics, to see that the data collected is appropriately shared with

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