Biometrics

News and Updates

Illustration shows passengers boarding an international flight and having their faces matched to previously taken photos before passing through the gate.

NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software’s Accuracy for Flight Boarding

July 13, 2021

The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline passenger identities while making very few errors, according

Identifying Individual Molecules: NIST Study Suggests How to Build a Better ‘Nanopore’ Biosensor

April 27, 2021

Researchers have spent more than three decades developing and studying miniature biosensors that can identify single molecules. In five to 10 years, when such

Face Recognition Software Shows Improvement in Recognizing Masked Faces

December 1, 2020

A new study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress

Events

International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) 2022

Tue, Nov 15 - Thu, Nov 17 2022

NIST is pleased to announce the IFPC 2022, which is focused on all technical factors affecting the deployment and use of

Projects and Programs

Research for Next Generation Biometric Measurements and Standards (NGBMS) for Identity Management

Ongoing

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

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Ongoing

Proprietary Fingerprint Template evaluations assess the accuracy of end-stage fingerprint matchers. These are the computationally-expensive algorithms used in

Multimodal Biometrics

Ongoing

Researches and develops measurement and evaluation methods to advance and promote the use of technologies that 1) provide more effective access to multimedia

Chexia Face Recognition

The Face Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (CHEXIA-FACE) is being conducted to assess the capability of face detection and recognition algorithms to

Publications

Specification for Interoperability Testing of Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

June 8, 2022

Author(s)

John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Craig I. Watson, Christopher Stafford, Matthew E. Staymates, John Grantham

This guidance specifies a protocol and associated metrics for the evaluation of contactless fingerprint acquisition device, and their interoperability with

NIST Special Database 302: Supplemental Release of Latent Annotations

November 2, 2021

Author(s)

Gregory Fiumara, Matthew Schwarz, Jessica Heising, Jennifer Peterson, Patricia A. Flanagan, Karen Marshall

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a collection of latent fingerprint images as part of Special Database (SD) 302 in December

Evaluating the Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery Spatial Loss on Matcher Performance

September 23, 2021

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John Grantham, Brian J. Cochran, Craig I. Watson

Observations in previous studies have shown that contactless capture devices may be prone to capturing superfluous data (e.g., fingernail or finger background)

Voice Biometrics: Future Trends and ChallengesAhead

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Doug Reynolds, Craig Greenberg

Voice has become woven into the fabric of everyday human-computer interactions via ubiquitous assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google, Bixby, Viv, etc. The use of

Software

NFIQ 2

November 12, 2021

The biometrics community recommended a new, open source, generalized version of NFIQ to be developed in consultation and collaboration with users and industry.

Dental Encoding Translator Applications Suite (DEnTAS)

August 11, 2015

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

August 5, 2014

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

NIST Biometric Image Software (NBIS)

February 10, 2010

Current Release: NBIS : Release 5.0.0 AboutThe NIST Biometric Image Software (NBIS) distribution is developed by the National Institute of Standards and

Awards

P. Jonathon Phillips Honored with Career Achievement Award

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is a world-renowned expert in computer vision, face recognition, and biometrics and a pioneer in developing

Elham Tabassi - 2016 Women in Biometrics Award

Elham Tabassi, an electrical engineer in the Information Access Division, was one of four winners for the 2016 Women in Biometrics Award