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Summary
A forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to USG agencies and their staff that are employing or may employ iris recognition to carry out their mission.
Description
Discussion Groups:
- Iris Examiner Training
- Iris Camera Selection Guidance-Government
- Iris Camera Selection Guidance-Commercial
Mailing List
Send a note to IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov)
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Recent Announcements:
06/12/2024 Annual Meeting on Thursday 06/13/2024: Updated agenda
An updated agenda is available at here
04/12/2024 Annual Meeting: Registration & Agenda
Registration for our annual meeting on Thursday, June 13, 2024 is now open at https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2024-iris-experts-group-ieg-meeting .
The meeting is pure virtual via Zoom. All attendees, including NIST staff and speakers must register in order to get the link to the meeting.
The link will be sent to registrants on June 12.
Please register early. It is easier for our meeting staff to deal with a few no shows than the same number of late registrations.
The current agenda(and any subsequent update) is available here .
Speakers are confirmed, but some details may change. Please check the agenda the day before the meeting to be sure of times.Registration is open until COB on June 11.
Registration questions may be directed to pauline.truong [at] nist.gov (pauline[dot]truong[at]nist[dot]gov) , our POC for NIST Meeting Services.
Questions about the agenda and other technical questions may be directed to james.matey [at] nist.gov (james[dot]matey[at]nist[dot]gov).
02/09/2024
- Reminder: Our next annual meeting is planned for Thursday, June 13, 2024. We hope to make this a hybrid meeting. Suggestions for topics/speakers may be sent to james.matey [at] nist.gov (James Matey).
- We are delighted to report that two standards documents originally drafted and reviewed by our IEG Discussion Groups have been passed on to OSAC and are now up for public comment at the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) website. These documents will eventually be sent to ASTM for ASTM review, approval and publication. Anyone with an interest in the documents can find them at
- OSAC 2024-N-0004, Standard Guide for Capturing Iris Images for Use with Iris Recognition Systems
- OSAC 2024-N-0005, Standard Guide for Minimum Training Recommendations of Iris Image Examiners
- Comments on the documents can be submitted using the OSAC comment form at https://www.nist.gov/document/osac-20-public-comment-tablesept-2021 ; comments should be sent to comments [at] nist.gov (comments[at]nist[dot]gov) by 11:59 pm EST March 4th.
Thanks to all the folks who participated in the preparation of these documents.
- If there are any additional topics that might benefit from discussion within the IEG discussion groups and submissions to OSAC, feel free to make suggestions to james.matey [at] nist.gov (james[dot]matey[at]nist[dot]gov) or blretton [at] fbi.gov (blretton[at]fbi[dot]gov)
07/26/2023
- Our annual meeting on June 15, 2023 was well attended; the presentations were well received. Thanks to the speakers for their presentations and to attendees for their participation. Participants should have received a list of references and citation links.
- Our work with OSAC over the past year has lead to plans for expansion of the scope of the Facial Identification Sub-committee of the OSAC Digital/Multi-media committee. At the start of the next fiscal year, barring an unforeseen glitch, it will include iris recognition. blretton [at] fbi.gov (Bethany Retton ) is soliciting people with iris expertise to participate in the work of the sub-committee. If interested, contact Bethany directly.
- Our next annual meeting is planned for Thursday, June 13, 2024. We hope to make this a hybrid meeting. Suggestions for topics/speakers may be sent to james.matey [at] nist.gov (James Matey).
04/18/2023 Annual Meeting Agenda
The draft agenda for our June 15th annual meeting is now available. ieg-agenda
Registration for the meeting is open. See announcement below for details.
02/10/2023 Annual Meeting Registration Now Open
Registration for our annual meeting on Thursday June 15, 2023 is now open at https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/06/2023-iris-experts-group-ieg-meeting.
Registration is free, but required for all, including NIST staff. The meeting will be virtual via BlueJeans. If you are at all likely to attend, please register early (now). It is easier for us to deal with a few no shows than any number of late registrations.
The agenda is in preparation and will be posted here and sent via email to the IEG main distribution list.
Suggestions for topics/speakers remain welcome – send to ieg-ii [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov)
Background:
During the period 2009 to 2014, an informal series of meetings were conducted on a semi-annual basis to discuss US government (USG) interests in iris recognition. Attendance was by invitation and the attendees were either USG staff who had interest in the questions submitted for discussion or recognized experts in some aspect of iris recognition who might reasonably be expected to help formulate answers to the questions. The meetings were called meetings of the Iris Experts Group (IEG) and were generally regarded as helpful in formulating answers to technical questions about iris recognition for the USG.
Purpose:
In 2015 NIST was asked to restart the group. Under a new name, IEG-II, the group remains a forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to USG agencies and their staff that are employing or may employ iris recognition to carry out their mission. IEG-II will continue to solicit questions of interest from the USG community and to invite iris experts to make relevant presentations, discuss those questions and make recommendations regarding answers to the questions. It will also entertain suggestions from the wider community regarding topics/questions that the USG community should be considering. Topics that are taken under consideration for future meetings will be posted below.
Meetings:
The IEG meetings are normally held in the Washington DC area (NIST Gaithersburg MD as a default). Teleconferences can be setup to explore topics outside of the in-person meetings. Speakers will be explicitly invited; potential speakers may submit proposals for presentations on topics of interest to USG. Anyone may register to attend. Normally, there is no registration fee. Attendees must have credentials that will enable them to visit the NIST campus – see https://www.nist.gov/about-nist/visit . The coordinators for the meetings are James Matey and Patrick Grother, reachable via IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov)
People who wish to suggest topics for discussion at future IEG-II meetings or to make proposals regarding presentations on topics should send a message to IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov). Please include either "IEG-II: Presentation Proposal - ..." or "IEG-II: Topic/Question Proposal - ..." along with a brief description in the subject line. The body of the emails should be sufficiently detailed to enable the organizers to assess the proposals.
Mailing List:
Send a note to IEG-II [at] nist.gov (IEG-II[at]nist[dot]gov) if you wish to be added to (or dropped from) the mailing list for IEG-II. Please include your name, affiliation and email address.
IEG-II Links
IREX Homepage
IEG Announcements Archive