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NIST’s second Innovative Technologies Showcase, a setting where three NIST researchers will present their latest and greatest technology, has gotten off to a
The long term goal of NGBMS is to fill a rapidly growing technology gap by developing new testing methodologies and standards for evaluating very large-scale
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Researches and develops measurement and evaluation methods to advance and promote the use of technologies that 1) provide more effective access to multimedia
The Face Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (CHEXIA-FACE) is being conducted to assess the capability of face detection and recognition algorithms to
This document describes a new approach to localizing the iris boundaries in non-ideal iris images. The proposed algorithm starts by applying a series of
This report quantifies the accuracy of passive purely software-based face presentation attack detection (PAD) algorithms operating on conventional 2D imagery of
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
About The NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT) is a cross-platform GUI application which allows a user to load a pair of fingerprint
The biometrics community recommended a new, open source, generalized version of NFIQ to be developed in consultation and collaboration with users and industry.
NIST is pleased to announce that it has developed a capability to translate input and output from the major forensic dental systems (each of which uses
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