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Projects/Programs

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Actionable Intelligence

Ongoing
Much information that could have immediate practical value in the understanding, management, and measurement of socio-technical systems exists as domain

Activities in Extended Videos Evaluation

Ongoing
The objective of Activities in Extended Videos (ActEV) evaluation series is to accelerate development of robust, multi-camera, automatic activity detection

Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques

Ongoing
NIST is working with DHS S&T and industry to research and develop novel approaches to DDoS detection and mitigation, techniques to test and measure the

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Ongoing
The standard specifies formats to be used for exchanging fingerprint and other image data.

Atomic Wavefunctions

Ongoing
NIST scientists are actively developing new algorithms for extremely high-accuracy computation of non-relativistic eigenstates of few-electron atomic systems.

Automated Vehicles and AV Communications

Ongoing
Automated vehicles (AVs) will significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. Advances in communications capabilities – for

Autonomous Systems Assurance

Ongoing
Autonomous systems must function correctly in an enormous range of environments. For example, self-driving cars must deal with lighting, rain, fog, pedestrians

Awareness, Training, Education (ATE)

Ongoing
Public Law 100-235, "The Computer Security Act of 1987," mandated NIST and OPM to create guidelines on computer security awareness and training based on

EV Battery Passport

Ongoing
Digital battery passports (DBPs), if implemented on a large scale, can provide the electric vehicle battery community with valuable data to support sustainable

Biometric Compression Information

Ongoing
In July of 2009 NIST in partnership with the FBI commenced an investigation on the use of JPEG 2000 for compressing fingerprint imagery with the ultimate goal

Biometric Quality

Ongoing
Performance of biometric systems is dependent on the quality of the acquired input samples. If quality can be improved, either by sensor design, by user

Biometrics

Biometrics is the measurement of physiological characteristics like – but not limited to – fingerprint, iris patterns, or facial features that can be used to

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

CHiMaD Phase Field Community

Ongoing
CHiMaD Phase Field Website Repository See the live website at pages.nist.gov/chimad-phase-field . In January 2015 a group of phase field

Comparative Serum Proteomics Project

Ongoing
Initially the Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program will generate proteomic data from sera from 25 different species that