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Biometric Special Databases and Software

 

Friction Ridge

Mugshots/Face

OCR

Friction Ridge

Mugshot/Face

OCR 

Software

Retired Databases 

Friction Ridge 

  • Special Database 4: NIST 8-bit Gray Scale Images of Fingerprint Image Groups.  This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
  • Special Database 9: NIST 8-bit Gray Scale Images of Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs. This database has been discontinued and is no longer available. 
  • Special Database 10: NIST Supplemental Fingerprint Card Data (SFCD) for NIST Special Database 9 with include rolled fingerprints and harder to find fingerprint classifications like arch, tented arch and low count loops.   This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
  • Special Database 14: NIST Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs 2. 
     Has 2,700 ten-print card pairs of rolled fingerprints (no plain impressions).  This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
  • NIST Special Database 27 and 27A: Fingerprint minutiae from latent and matching tenprint images This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.

  • Special Database 29: Plain and Rolled Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards in 500 pixels per inch.  This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
  • Special Database 30: Plain and Rolled Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards in 1000 pixels per inch. This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.

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Contacts

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Created May 10, 2010, Updated July 27, 2022