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Information Technology

Biometrics

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

Fingerprint

We conduct evaluations of fingerprint matching technologies to support standards, measurement and evaluation methods, and technology capabilities.

Interdisciplinary Projects

Ongoing
Some of the Multimodal Information Group's project areas span across multiple research areas within the group or to other groups in IAD. These interdisciplinary

Publications

Repeatability of Contactless and Contact Fingerprint Capture

Author(s)
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini
A new generation of contactless fingerprint capture devices has recently emerged. These devices provide the ability to capture a fingerprint without making

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