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NIST Pubs

Biometric Specifications for Personal Identity Verification

Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12, Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors [HSPD-12], called for new...

IREX VI - Temporal Stability of Iris Recognition Accuracy

Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, James R. Matey, Elham Tabassi, George W. Quinn, Michael Chumakov
Background: Stability is a required definitional property for a biometric to be useful. Quantitative statements of stability are operationally important as they...

IREX IV: Part 1, Evaluation of Iris Identification Algorithms

Author(s)
George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, James R. Matey
IREX IV aims to provide a fair and balanced scientific evaluation of the performance of automated iris recognition algorithms. IREX IV evaluated the performance...

July 2013 SRM Spotlight

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Office of Reference Materials for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...

Overview of the TREC 2012 Medical Records Track

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, William Hersh
The TREC Medical Records track fosters research that allows electronic health records to be retrieved based on the semantic content of free-text fields. The...

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program Summer 2002 Comparability Studies: Results for Round Robin LII Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum and Round Robin 17 Ascorbic Acid in Human Serum

Author(s)
David L. Duewer, Katherine E. Sharpless, Margaret C. Kline, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Sam A. Margolis
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
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