Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Prize Analysis

Published

May 3, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate, Christopher Boehnen

Abstract

In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge. Participating Challengers deployed devices designed to collect an image of the full nail to nail surface area of a fingerprint – equivalent to a rolled fingerprint – from an unacclimated user without assistance from a trained device operator. Images captured from these devices were searched against a set of traditionally- captured operator-assisted rolled fingerprints. Thousands of latent fingerprints were also searched against the images.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8210

Report Number

8210

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

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NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8210

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Keywords

acquisition, biometrics, capture devices, data, fingerprints, latent, prototypes, rolled, sensors

Citation

Fiumara, G. , Tabassi, E. , Flanagan, P. , Grantham, J. , Ko, K. , Marshall, K. , Schwarz, M. , Woodgate, B. and Boehnen, C. (2018), Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Prize Analysis, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8210, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=925536 (Accessed May 25, 2026)

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