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NIST Pubs

Performance of New and Aged Residential Fire Smoke Detectors

Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Richard G. Gann, William F. Guthrie, Daniel Murphy
As part of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) technical staff program to determine the effects of emissions from imported drywall on residential

NIST Workshop on Ontology Evaluation (NISTIR 7774)

Author(s)
Ram D. Sriram, Conrad E. Bock, Fabian M. Neuhaus, Evan K. Wallace, Mary C. Brady, Mark Musen, Joanne Luciano
The National Institute for Standards and Technology sponsored a workshop in October, 2007, on the subject of ontology evaluation. An international group of

Information Leakage Through the Domain Name System

Author(s)
Scott W. Rose, Anastase Nakassis, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the global lookup service for network resources. It is often the first step in an Internet transaction as well as a network

When High-Quality Face Images Match Poorly

Author(s)
J. R. Beveridge, P. Jonathon Phillips, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper, Mohammad N. Teli, David Bolme
In face recognition, quality is typically thought of as a property of individual images, not image pairs. The implicit assumption is that high-quality images

An Introduction to the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Face Recognition Challenge Problem

Author(s)
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, Geof H. Givens, Alice J. O'Toole, David Bolme, Joseph Dunlop, Yui M. Lui, Hassan A. Sahibzada, Samuel Weimer
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Face Challenge Problem was created to encourage the development of algorithms that are robust to recognition across changes in

NIST Measurement Services: Regular Spectral Transmittance

Author(s)
David W. Allen, Edward A. Early, Benjamin K. Tsai, Catherine C. Cooksey
This document describes measurement services, instrumentation, and measurement techniques for regular spectral transmittance over the spectral range from 250 nm
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