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Michael D. Indovina, Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, R. A. Hicklin, G I. Kiebuzinski
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies - Extended Feature Sets (ELFT-EFS) consists of multiple
Michael D. Indovina, R. A. Hicklin, G I. Kiebuzinski
ELFT-EFS Evaluation 1 is an evaluation of the accuracy of latent matching using features marked by experienced human latent fingerprint examiners. The purpose
Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon, Craig I. Watson, Michael D. Indovina, Patricia A. Flanagan
The MINEX II trials have been conducted to evaluate the accuracy and speed of MATCH-ON-CARD verification algorithms. These run on ISO/IEC 7816 smartcards. They