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NIST Pubs

Studies of Biometric Fusion Executive Summary

Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Brad Ulery, R. A. Hicklin, William Fellner, P Halinan
This is an evaluation of different score-level fusion techniques, and the results of a variety of fusion experiments using face and fingerprint data from 187

Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF), Augmented

Author(s)
Fernando L. Podio, J S. Dunn, L Reinert, C J. Tilton, L O'Gorman, P Collier, Mark Jerde, B Wirtz
This report is an augmentation of the original standard, which was published as NISTIR 6529 (January 2001). Common Biometric Exchange File Format (CBEFF)

Fingerprint Image Quality

Author(s)
Elham Tabassi, Charles Wilson, Craig I. Watson
In this report, we propose a new definition of quality of fingerprint impressions and present detailed algorithms to measure image quality for fingerprints. We

2nd Annual PKI Research Workshop Proceedings

Author(s)
Carl M. Ellison, William Polk, Nelson Hastings, Sean W. Smith
NIST hosted the second annual Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Research Workshop on April 28-29, 2003. The two-day event brought together PKI experts from

A Welding Data Dictionary

Author(s)
William G. Rippey
This data dictionary specifies data elements that are used to describe the design, fabrication and inspection of weldments. It comprises welding information

Tech Note 1458|NIST Measurement Service for DC Standard Resistors

Author(s)
Randolph Elmquist, Dean G. Jarrett, George R. Jones Jr., Marlin E. Kraft, Scott H. Shields, Ronald F. Dziuba
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. representation of the ohm is based on the quantum Hall effect, and it is maintained and

Feature-Based Inspection and Control System

Author(s)
Thomas Kramer, John A. Horst, Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Frederick M. Proctor, Harry A. Scott
This report describes an architecture and software system for automatically performing process planning and control code generation for cutting and inspecting

Automated Composition of Conversion Software

Author(s)
David W. Flater
Given a library of converters with known behaviors, an integration engine must determine which are useful in a given scenario and produce a plan for how they

Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in

Overview of the TREC 2003 Robust Retrieval Track

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
The robust retrieval track is a new track in TREC 2003. The goal of the track is to improve the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly
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