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Most commonly occurring images f(x,y) are not smoothly differentiable functions of the variables x and y. Rather, these images display edges, localized sharp...
Marti Frank, Hannah Friedman, Kristin Heinemeier, Cory Toole, David Claridge, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Philip Haves
This report documents the findings of a review of the state of the art in the commissioning of low energy buildings. The purpose of this report is threefold: 1)...
The 2004 Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) report, Collaboration, Integrated Information, and the Project Life Cycle in Building Design, Construction and...
This report documents the export controlled distribution of biometric image software (NBIS-EC). The NBIS-EC software is organized into two major packages: 1...
Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez, Michele L. Buckley
The microelectronics industry supplies vital components to the electronics industry and to the U.S. economy, enabling rapid improvements in productivity and in...
Large engineering projects have become the norm with new additional requirements arising from the point of view of life cycle management of the product...
Mechanical assemblies are systems composed of modules that are either subassemblies or parts. Traditionally an assembly information model contains information...
Junhwan Kim, Mike Pratt, Raj G. Iyer, Ram D. Sriram
Modern CAD systems generate feature-based product shape models with parameterization and constraints. Until recently, standards for CAD data exchange among...
Mary Theofanos, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Brian Stanton, Nien F. Zhang
Although there is widespread deployment of biometric technologies such as fingerprint systems, little attention is being paid to the human-computer interaction...
Alicia Clay Jones, Jaime Montemayor, William Blackert, David Carman, Anusha Saksena, Paul Schuster, David Silberberg
This report summarizes the results of interviews with a multi-disciplinary group of experts who share an interest in information security and assurance metrics...
.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design...
This report describes a sensor system that determines the relative pose between a crane spreader and an ISO container. The sensor system supports efforts to...
Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Brian J. Cochran, Patrick J. Grother, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a series of tests for evaluating the state of the art in Automated Latent Fingerprint...
In this paper we present a 3-D object segmentation and motion estimation scheme of range video data for crash prevention applications. The segmentation is based...
We discuss the use of tensor product B-splines to generate grids, or meshes, to facilitate the plotting of high level mathematical functions for the National...
Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang, Sanford P. Ressler
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a digital library to replace the widely used National Bureau of Standards Handbook of...
The U.S. Department of Commerce s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presents this summary report for the Office of Management and Budget...
This document is a set of recommendations to users of biometric quality assessment algorithms. In particular it is concerned with aggregation of quality values...
Currently, the U.S. has over 3.7 million kilometers (2.3 million miles) of pipelines crossing the country transporting natural gas and hazardous liquids from...
This is the April 2007 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...
Computational tools have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for modeling fire spread and smoke transport. These tools...
Theodore V. Vorburger, James H. Yen, B Bachrach, Thomas Brian Renegar, Li Ma, Hyug-Gyo Rhee, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Jun-Feng Song, Charles D. Foreman
This document reports on a study to determine the feasibility and utility of a national ballistics database of casing and bullet images. The purpose of such a...
The Cyber Security Research and Development Act of 2002 tasks the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to "develop, and revise as necessary, a...
Simulation is defined as the imitation of the operation of a system or real-world process over time, and in many cases, manufacturing provides one of the most...
Flash LADAR cameras based on continuous-wave, time-of-flight range measurement deliver fast 3D imaging for robot applications including mapping, localization...
A set of C and Fortran computer programs have been developed for computing the permeability of three-dimensional porous media under incompressible Stokes flow...
The impact of firefighter response on the progress of the building evacuation is not typically considered. The emergency response can significantly increase...
Cheol D. Park, Paul A. Reneke, Michael A. Galler, Steven T. Bushby, William D. Davis
As part of a Cybernetic Building Systems project at the NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory, a whole building emulator called the Virtual Cybernetic...
The NIST technical investigation into The Station nightclub fire specifically recommended that a study be performed to determine the minimum number and...
Large automotive manufacturers, including automakers and the manufacturers of principal automotive subsystems, make their products in large volumes. This means...