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NIST Special Database 303

Published

Author(s)

Gregory Fiumara, Kenneth Ko, Kasey Wertheim

Abstract

Thousands of latent impression distal phalanx images and associated exemplar fingerprint images were collected for a study of forensic fingerprint examiner's ability to make suitability determinations. These images are being released for free to the research community in a new dataset from the National Institute of Standards and Technology entitled Special Database (SD) 303.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 2366
Report Number
2366

Keywords

biometrics, fingerprints, images, latent

Citation

Fiumara, G. , Ko, K. and Wertheim, K. (2026), NIST Special Database 303, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2366, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=961748 (Accessed March 18, 2026)

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Created March 17, 2026
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