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Biometrics

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ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Ongoing
The standard specifies formats to be used for exchanging fingerprint and other image data.

Iris Experts Group - II Homepage

A forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to USG agencies and their staff that are employing or may employ iris recognition to carry out

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