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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

A Sensor Ontology Literature Review

Author(s)
Roger D. Eastman, Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Tsai H. Hong
The purpose of this paper is to review existing sensor and sensor network ontologies to understand whether they can be reused as a basis for a manufacturing

Ground Truth Systems for Object Recognition and Tracking

Author(s)
Afzal A. Godil, Roger D. Eastman, Tsai H. Hong
In this report we discuss different types of ground-truth systems used for evaluation of object recognition and tracking systems in industrial manufacturing

Explosive Standards Forum Recommendations

Author(s)
William G. Billotte, Sharon B. Nakich
From September 2011 to September 2012, the NIST Law Enforcement Standards Office (OLES), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and

Camera Recognition

Author(s)
Michelle P. Steves, Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Dana E. Chisnell, Hannah Wald
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program is a biometrically-enhanced

Evacuation Decision Model

Author(s)
Paul A. Reneke
In evacuation models, the time between the first alarm or other initial cue until the population starts evacuating, often referred to as the pre-evacuation time

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

Author(s)
Petrina C. Potts
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a varieth of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST

Video-based Face Recognition via Joint Sparse Representation

Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Vishal M. Patel, Yi-Chen Chen, Rama Chellappa
In video-based face recognition, a key challenge is in exploiting the extra information available in a video. In addition, different video sequences of the same

STEP File Analyzer User's Guide

Author(s)
Robert R. Lipman
This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP file. The spreadsheet simplifies inspecting information in the
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