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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

NIST 2022 Language Recognition Evaluation Plan

Author(s)
Yooyoung Lee, Craig Greenberg, Lisa Mason, Elliot Singer
The 2022 NIST language recognition evaluation (LRE22) is the 9th cycle in an on-going language recognition evaluation series that began in 1996. The objectives

Forensic Iris: A Review, 2022

Author(s)
James Matey, George Quinn, Patrick J. Grother
John Daugman correctly summarized the state of forensic iris recognition circa 2006 for the book Forensic Human Identification: an Introduction [1]: Iris

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