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NIST Special Database 302: Supplemental Release of Latent Annotations

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Gregory Fiumara, Matthew Schwarz, Jessica Heising, Jennifer Peterson, Patricia A. Flanagan, Karen Marshall

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a collection of latent fingerprint images as part of Special Database (SD) 302 in December 2019. While the dataset included 10 000 never-before-seen operational quality images from 200 study participants, SD 302 has been of somewhat limited usability, in part due to the omission of study participant finger position ground truth. To help make SD 302 as robust and useful to the community as possible, NIST has funded certified latent print examiners to annotate and determine the source of the latent fingerprint images distributed as part of SD 302.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 2190
Report Number
2190
NIST Pub Series
Technical Note (NIST TN)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2190
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Keywords

biometrics, data, extended feature set, fingerprints, images, latent
Biometrics

Citation

Fiumara, G. , Schwarz, M. , Heising, J. , Peterson, J. , Flanagan, P. and Marshall, K. (2021), NIST Special Database 302: Supplemental Release of Latent Annotations, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2190, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933188 (Accessed October 6, 2025)

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Created November 2, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022
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