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NIST Biometric Scores Set (BSSR1)

A set of raw output similarity scores from two c. 2002 face recognition systems and one c. 2004 fingerprint system, operating on frontal faces, and left and right index live-scan fingerprints, respectively. The release includes true multimodal score data, i.e. similarity scores from comparisons of faces and fingerprints of the same people. 517 subjects in Set 1; 6000 subjects in Set 2; 3000 subjects in Set 3

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BSSR 1 dataset 

BSSR 1 md5sum

BSSR 1 document PDF  

Created January 9, 2017, Updated August 21, 2025
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