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Generative Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Program (GenAI)

Ongoing
Please visit the GenAI evaluation server page for an overview of the GenAI program and descriptions of specific tasks, schedules, and evaluation plans, as well as the registration, download, and hosts submission platform for participants. Direct links to specific GenAI challenges are provided below...

Guardians of Forensic Evidence

Ongoing
The program addresses critical challenges including a gap between high research accuracy and a lack of ease-of-use in real-world applications, as well as the need for improved generalization capability and robustness against post-processing and anti-forensics filters. The specific image deepfake...

Health Information Technology Usability

Completed
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provides financial incentives and other support to drive the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs. A recent report funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), however, identified key shortcomings...

Human Factor Guidelines and Accessibility

Ongoing
With the aging of America, increasing prevalence of chronic disease and growing immigrant and minority populations in the U.S., there is the real potential for both unintentional traditional and digital health-care disparities. Health information technology (HIT) holds significant potential to...

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) 10: Ongoing Evaluation of Iris Recognition

Ongoing
IREX 10 is a continuing evaluation of automated iris recognition technology. Administered at the Image Group's Biometrics Research Laboratory (BRL), developers submit their matching software for analysis over sequestered test data. As an ongoing evaluation, developers may submit their software at...

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...

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...

Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Capture Challenge

Completed
Updates 12 December 2019: Data from the Challenge has been released as Special Database 302. Future updates with N2N data will appear on the Special Database 302 page. 16 September 2019: We have begun work with Certified Latent Print Examiners to annotate our dataset with EFS Profile 2 information...

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...

Open Speech Analytic Technologies (OpenSAT) Evaluation Series

Completed
The objectives of OpenSAT are as follows: To evaluate state-of-the-art speech analytics technologies specifically within the public safety communications domain. To provide a standardized forum where the speech analytics community could develop and test multiple technologies in parallel using a...

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...

Safety-Related Usability Framework

Ongoing
NIST, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are collaborating on a multi-year research program aimed at building a principled framework for measuring the usability of health IT systems. The ultimate...

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 Activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- ) A biennial NIST evaluation of approaches...

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...
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