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Projects/Programs

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Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE)

Completed
The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) is an independently administered technology evaluation of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification system. It has been rebranded as FRIF TE E1N.

IDMS Standards Activities

Ongoing
This work focuses on U.S. participation on related IDM standards activities, development of standards and metrics, and related outreach. The work program for this project includes: 1. U.S. representation on the following ISO/IEC JTC 1 subcommittees: a. ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC17 b. ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 27 c

Interdisciplinary Projects

Ongoing
Current: DARPA CCU (Computational Cultural Understanding) ​ Past: IARPA MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) DARPA LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) and LoReHLT (Low Resource Human Language Technologies) DARPA BOLT (Broad

Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE)

Completed
ICE 2006 Workshop ICE 2006 consisted of a large-scale, open, independent technology evaluation of iris recognition technology. To guarantee an accurate assessment, the ICE measured performance with sequestered data (data not previously seen by the researchers or developers

Iris Exchange (IREX) Overview

Ongoing
The data used in IREX comes from publicly available datasets and from operational data provided by various government and commercial entities. The publicly available data sets may be procured from the original sources; in general, NIST does not have license to redistribute any of the public datasets

Iris Experts Group - II Homepage

Ongoing
Documents for Public Comment Some of our IEG activities generate documents that may benefit from public comment. There are three general categories: Documents that are sent to OSAC for further work. Documents that are provided to another entity (e.g. FBI NGI) for dissemination. Documents that will

Iris Projects

Ongoing
IRIS Experts Group II Starting in June 2016, NIST is convening the Iris Experts Group as a series of colloquia addressing topics of interest to operational deployment of biometrics in the United States government and more broadly. Iris Exchange (IREX) The Iris Exchange (IREX) was initiated at NIST

Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) Overview

Ongoing
MINEX III Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) III is a continuing test of INCITS 378 fingerprint templates, as established in Annex A of NIST SP 800-76-2. The test is used to establish compliance of template generators and template matchers for the U.S. Government's Personal Identity

Multimodal Biometrics

Ongoing
MBARK: to advance standards in biometric acquisition client technologies MBGC: to focus R&D community on multiple biometric applications to advance innovation while NIST assesses performance of emerging technologies

Multiple Biometric Evaluation (MBE)

Completed
MBE 2D Still Update The evaluation of 2D face recognition algorithms yielded two reports. First, NIST Interagency Report 7709 gave results for both verification and identification algorithms. Second, the NIST Interagency Report 7830 surveyed compression and resolution parameters for storing face

Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC)

Completed
Background Over the last decade, numerous government and industry organizations have or are moving toward deploying automated biometric technologies to provide increased security for their systems and facilities. Six U.S. Government organizations recently sponsored the

Next Generation Fingerprint Technologies

Ongoing
Contactless Fingerprint Capture This project is conducting research in support of emerging non-contact fingerprint acquisition devices. Issues being addressed include: data format standards, best practices, development of methods for certification testing, and assessment of interoperability with

NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Ongoing
Evaluation of Latent Friction Ridge Technology As of May 2020, NIST is relaunching its latent fingerprint technology research and broadening it to all types of friction ridges, including palms. The new evaluation picks up and greatly enhances the concept of operations described in ELFT-EFS

Point and Shoot Face Recognition Challenge (PaSC)

Completed
Inexpensive "point-and-shoot" camera technology combined with social network technology motivates the general population to use face recognition technology. Users expect a lot; they want to snap pictures, shoot videos, upload, and have their friends, family and acquaintances more-or-less

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) program is an ongoing biometric technology evaluation program measuring the performance of fingerprint template generation and one-to-one verification software using vendor proprietary fingerprint templates

Sensing and Imaging of concealed objects

Ongoing
Threats to personal and collective safety abound in our society. The Security Technologies Group (STG) performs research to advance the technology and measurement science of security imaging and sensing. This work includes the establishment of test and evaluation tools, reference test beds, test

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) Overview

Ongoing
SlapSeg04 was the first and evaluated a slap segmentation algorithm's ability to segment fingerprints that could be matched using high end fingerprint matching technology. SlapsegII started in 2009 and compares the slap segmentation algorithm's output to hand marked ground truth results. This

Speaker and Language Recognition

Ongoing
Current Speaker and Language Recognition technology activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. View the 2012 NIST SRE report. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- )

Speech Analytics

Ongoing
Current speech analytics work: OpenSAT is a new speech analytic evaluation series designed to include developers from multiple speech analytic technologies where common datasets are used in NIST evaluations. The goal is to bring together developers focused on different speech analytic tasks to

Statistical Friction Ridge Analysis (SFRA)

Ongoing
Introduction Friction ridge analysis in crime scene investigation is one of the crucial forensic methods to find the suspects and victims of crime and solve cases. Latent fingerprints—the friction ridge patterns from fingertips left at crime scenes and photographed or lifted from the surfaces—are

Tattoo Recognition Technology

Ongoing
Tattoo Recognition Technology - Evaluation (Tatt-E) Tatt-E is a large-scale sequestered evaluation of tattoo recognition algorithms to support operationally relevant use cases, including tattoo identification, region of interest, tattoo detection/localization, matching sketches. For more information

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Challenge (Tatt-C)

Completed
Tatt-C Dataset November 2, 2016: NIST has announced a follow-on activity to Tatt-C, which is a large-scale, sequestered evaluation called Tatt-E. Tatt-C Publications September 15, 2015: The first public report on Tatt-C has been published as NISTIR 8078 – Tattoo Recognition Technology – Challenge