Craig I. Watson

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Guidance on Contactless Friction Ridge Image Compression, v1.0

May 3, 2023

Author(s)

John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini, John Grantham, Craig I. Watson

Nascent technologies show promise in collecting 500 ppi fingerprints in a contactless fashion while yielding various improvements in the collection process over

Specification for Certification Testing of Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices, v1.0

April 4, 2023

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini, Craig I. Watson

This specification builds upon the protocols and metrics established in NIST Special Publication 500-336 and defines procedures for the evaluation and

Specification for Interoperability Testing of Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

June 8, 2022

Author(s)

John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Craig I. Watson, Christopher Stafford, Matthew E. Staymates, John Grantham

This guidance specifies a protocol and associated metrics for the evaluation of contactless fingerprint acquisition device, and their interoperability with

Evaluating the Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery Spatial Loss on Matcher Performance

September 23, 2021

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John Grantham, Brian J. Cochran, Craig I. Watson

Observations in previous studies have shown that contactless capture devices may be prone to capturing superfluous data (e.g., fingernail or finger background)

Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation

March 11, 2021

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Craig I. Watson, Gregory Fiumara, John Grantham

While contactless fingerprint capture devices stand to provide for many benefits, images from this nascent technology are sufficiently different than

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