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Tattoo Recognition Technology - Challenge (Tatt-C): Outcomes and Recommendations

September 15, 2015
Author(s)
Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother
Tattoos have been used for many years to assist law enforcement in investigations leading to the identification of both criminals and victims. A tattoo is an elective biometric trait that contains additional discriminative information to support person

Dictionary-based Face and Person Recognition from Unconstrained Video

September 9, 2015
Author(s)
P J. Phillips, Yi-Chen Chen, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa
The main challenge in recognizing people in uncon- strained video is exploiting the identity information in multiple frames and the accompanying dynamic signature. These identity cues include face, body, and motion. Our approach is based on video

Perceptual expertise in forensic facial image comparison

September 1, 2015
Author(s)
P. Jonathon Phillips, David White, Alice O'Toole, Carina A. Hahn, Matthew Hill
Forensic facial identification examiners are required to match the identity of faces in images that vary substantially, owing to changes in viewing conditions and in a person's appearance. These identifications affect the course and out- come of criminal

Modest proposals for improving biometric recognition papers

August 31, 2015
Author(s)
James R. Matey, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, Elham Tabassi, Craig I. Watson, James L. Wayman
We present practical recommendations for improving the clarity, transparency, and usefulness of many biometric papers. Several of the recommendations can be enabled by preparing a publicly available library of state of the art Receiver Operating

Towards Repeatable, Reproducible, and Efficient Biometric Technology Evaluations

August 18, 2015
Author(s)
Gregory P. Fiumara, Wayne J. Salamon, Craig I. Watson
With the proliferation of biometric-based identity management solutions, biometric algorithms need to be tested now more than ever. Independent biometric technology evaluations are needed to perform this testing, but are not trivial to run, as demonstrated

Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework Standardization

July 3, 2015
Author(s)
Fred Herr, Fernando L. Podio
Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) provides a standardized set of definitions and procedures that support the interchange of biometric data in standard data structures called CBEFF biometric information records (BIRs). CBEFF permits

Longitudinal Study of Fingerprint Recognition

June 30, 2015
Author(s)
Soweon Yoon, Anil Jain
Human identification by fingerprints is based on the fundamental premise that ridge patterns from distinct fingers are different (uniqueness) and a fingerprint pattern does not change over time (persistence). While the uniqueness of fingerprints has been

JPEG 2000 CODEC Certification Guidance for 1000 ppi Fingerprint Friction Ridge Imagery

June 4, 2015
Author(s)
Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Michael Garris, John Grantham, Frederick R. Byers
The document describes the procedure by which applications of JPEG 2000 CODECs will be evaluated with respect to conformance to the NIST guidance for compression of 1000 ppi friction ridge images as detailed in NIST Special Publication 500-289 [NIST5]

Evaluating automatic face recognition systems with human benchmarks

April 9, 2015
Author(s)
P. Jonathon Phillips, Alice O'Toole
Human face recognition skills are often considered the gold standard against which machines must compete. Over the last two decades, however, international tests of computer-based face recognition algorithms have shown steady improvements in accuracy with

Report on the FG 2015 Video Person Recognition Evaluation

April 2, 2015
Author(s)
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Hao Zhang, Bruce A. Draper, Patrick J. Flynn, Zhenhua Feng, Patrik Huber, Josef Kittler, Zhiwu Huang, Shaoxin Li, Yan Li, Meina Kan, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Haoxiang Li, Hua Gang, Vitomir Struc, Janez Krizaj, Changxing Ding, Dacheng Tao

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation

January 8, 2015
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Gregory P. Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Su L. Cheng, Patricia A. Flanagan, Wayne J. Salamon
FpVTE was conducted primarily to assess the current capabilities of fingerprint matching algorithms using operational datasets containing several million subjects. There were three classes of participation that examined various finger combinations from

Generalizing Face Quality and Factor Measures to Video

September 23, 2014
Author(s)
Yooyoung Lee, P. Jonathon Phillips, James Filliben, J. R. Beveridge, Hao H. Zhang
Methods for assessing the impact of factors and image-quality metrics for still face images are well-understood. The extension of these factors and quality measures to faces in video has not, however, been explored. We present a specific methodology for

Performance evaluation of fingerprint open-set identification algorithms

September 22, 2014
Author(s)
Elham Tabassi, Craig I. Watson, Gregory P. Fiumara
We report performance of one-to-many fingerprint identification algorithms using one, two, four, eight or ten fingers for recognition. Performance is quantified in terms of recognition accuracy (false positive and false negative identification rate)
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