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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
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