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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Video-based Face Recognition via Joint Sparse Representation

January 2, 2013

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...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Summer 2011 Exercise (Exercise 4)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Mary Bedner, Susan Tai

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2011 Exercise (Exercise 3)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice A. Lippa

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results:Summer 2010 (Exercise 2)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Katrice A. Lippa, Mary Bedner, Susan Tai

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently established a Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program (VitDQAP) in collaboration with...

NIST/NIH Vitamin D Metabolites Quality Assurance Program Report of Participant Results: Winter 2010 Compatibility Study (Exercise 1)

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Mary Bedner, Katrice A. Lippa

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program Winter 2012 Comparability Studies Results for Round Robin LXXI Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum and Round Robin 36 Ascorbic Acid in Human Serum

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

David L. Duewer, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas

The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...

Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program: Exercise H Final Report

December 13, 2012

Author(s)

Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Anthony F. Marlow, Michele M. Schantz, John R. Sieber

The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...

STEP File Analyzer User's Guide

December 13, 2012

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...

A Credential Reliability and Revocation Model for Federated Identities

November 29, 2012

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo

A large number of Identity Management Systems (IDMSs) are being deployed worldwide that use different technologies for the population of their users. With the...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2012

November 26, 2012

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Joshua D. Kneifel, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the 2012 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable...

Best Practices and Performance Metrics Using Force Control for Robotic Assembly

November 23, 2012

Author(s)

Jeremy A. Marvel, Joseph A. Falco

Historically, mechanical assembly was predicted to be the dominant application domain of industrial robots; yet assembly tasks are still primarily addressed by...

Thermal Analysis of a Small Pharmaceutical Refrigerator for Vaccine Storage

November 23, 2012

Author(s)

Michal J. Chojnacky

Each year, billions of dollars of vaccines are stored in refrigerators at the facilities of a variety of medical providers. Many vaccines must be maintained in...

Statistical Analysis of Reader Measurement Variability in Nodule Sizing with CT Phantom Imaging Data

November 23, 2012

Author(s)

John Lu, Charles D. Fenimore, Nicholas Petrick, Rongping Zeng, Marios A. Gavrielides, David Clunie, Kristin Borradaile, Robert Ford, Hyun J. Kim, Michael McNitt-Gray, Binsheng Zhao, Andrew Buckler

RSNA has conducted a phantom quantitative imaging biomarker (QIBA) study to assess reader measurement variability of both spherical and non-spherical nodules...

Data Logger Thermometers for Vaccine Temperature Monitoring

November 23, 2012

Author(s)

Michal J. Chojnacky

Complete and accurate records of vaccine temperature history are vital to preserving drug potency and patient safety, yet many vaccine providers do not use...

Workshop Report: Building the Materials Innovation Infrastructure: Data and Standards A Materials Genome Initiative Workshop

November 23, 2012

Author(s)

James Warren, Ronald Boisvert

The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) is a multi-agency, multi-stakeholder effort to develop the infrastructure needed to enable the materials science community...

Technical Assessment of Test and Evaluation Supporting Infrastructure for BioWatch. Summary Report from Peer Review of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

November 19, 2012

Author(s)

Jayne B. Morrow, David A. LaVan

Technical Assessment of Test and Evaluation Supporting Infrastructure for BioWatch. Summary Report from Peer Review of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Lincoln Laboratory

November 19, 2012

Author(s)

Jayne D. Morrow, David A. LaVan

Third-Round Report of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

November 15, 2012

Author(s)

Shu-jen H. Chang, Ray Perlner, William E. Burr, Meltem Sonmez Turan, John Kelsey, Souradyuti Paul, Lawrence E. Bassham

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened a public competition on November 2, 2007 to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm - SHA-3...

Fatigue Flaw NDE Reference Standard Development - Phase I Feasibility Study

November 1, 2012

Author(s)

Mark D. Richards, Joseph D. McColskey, Dash Weeks

A feasibility study was performed to evaluate a novel method of accurately fatigue cracking steel plates to generate fatigue proposed fatigue crack reference...

Finite-element models of the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL)and modular support structure

October 26, 2012

Author(s)

Dat Duthinh

This report documents the development of finite-element models (FEM) of the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) and its modular support structure. The...

SysML extension for dynamical system simulation tools

October 26, 2012

Author(s)

Ion Matei, Conrad E. Bock

Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing todays complex systems. Engineers create and review such...

Combinatorial Coverage Measurement

October 26, 2012

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei

Combinatorial testing applies factor covering arrays to test all t-way combinations of input or configuration state space. In some testing situations, it is not...

Significance Test in Speaker Recognition Data Analysis with Data Dependency

October 17, 2012

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker, Vincent M. Stanford

To evaluate the performance of speaker recognition systems, a detection cost function defined as a weighted sum of the probabilities of type I and type II...

Correction Factors for the NIST Free-Air Ionization Chambers Used to Realize Air Kerma from W-Anode X-ray Beam

October 16, 2012

Author(s)

Stephen M. Seltzer

This report details analyses in the development of certain correction factors for free-air ionization chambers used by the National Institute of Standards and...

Notional Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems

October 16, 2012

Author(s)

Jon M. Boyens, Celia Paulsen, Nadya Bartol, Rama Moorthy, Stephanie Shankles

This publication is intended to provide a wide array of practices that, when implemented, will help mitigate supply chain risk to federal information systems...

BioCTS 2012: Advanced Conformance Test Architectures and Test Suites for Biometric Data Interchange Formats and Biometric Information Records

September 14, 2012

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio, Dylan Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis

The Computer Security Division of NIST/ITL supports the development of biometric conformance testing methodology standards and other conformity assessment...

Guidelines for Access Control System Evaluation Metrics

September 14, 2012

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, Karen Scarfone

The purpose of this document is to provide Federal agencies with background information on access control (AC) properties, and to help access control experts...

Usability of PIV Smartcards for Logical Access

August 31, 2012

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos, Emile L. Morse, Hannah Wald, Yee-Yin Choong, Celeste Paul, Aiping L. Zhang

Modeling Methodologies and Simulation for Dynamical Systems

August 27, 2012

Author(s)

Ion Matei, Conrad E. Bock

Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of designing todays complex systems. Engineers create and review such...

An Exploration of the Operational Ramifications of Lossless Compression of 1000 ppi Fingerprint Imagery

August 6, 2012

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Stephen S. Wood, Jin Chu Wu, Lindsay M. Petersen, Bruce Bandini

This paper presents the findings of a study initially conducted to measure the operational impact of JPEG 2000 lossy compression on 1000 ppi fingerprint imagery...

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