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Summary of Latent Fingerprint work at NIST

November 20, 2006
Author(s)
Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Michael D. Garris
This paper describes past and present fingerprint activity at NIST. While the primary focus is on latent fingerprints, the paper also surveys relevant general biometrics activity. The central focus of the paper is on the Latent Testing Workshop, held on

Summary of April 2005 ANSI/NIST Fingerprint Standard Update Workshop

January 30, 2006
Author(s)
R. McCabe, Michael D. Garris
This workshop was convened to chart the future of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 fingerprint data exchange standard. This report is intended to provide a summary of that workshop. The current and future requirements and capabilities of existing stakeholders were

NIST Biometric Evaluations and Developments

February 1, 2005
Author(s)
Michael D. Garris, Charles L. Wilson
This paper presents an R&D framework used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for biometric technology testing and evaluation. The focus of this paper is on fingerprint-based verification and identification. Since 9-11 the NIST

Matching Performance for the US-Visit IDENT System Using Flat Fingerprints

November 29, 2004
Author(s)
Charles L. Wilson, Michael D. Garris, Craig I. Watson
This report discusses the flat to flat matching performance of the US-VISIT fingerprint matching system. Both one-to-many matching used to detect duplicate visa enrollments and one-to-one matching used to verify the identity of the visa holder are

Studies of Fingerprint Matching Using the NIST Verification Test Bed (VTB)

July 1, 2003
Author(s)
Charles L. Wilson, Craig I. Watson, Michael D. Garris, R. A. Hicklin
A series of fingerprint matching studies have been conducted on an experimental laboratory system called the Verification Test Bed (VTB). The VTB is a collection of commercial off the shelf (COTS) computer hardware, an open-source operating system, and a

Recommendation for Interstate Criminal History Transmission Specification

November 1, 2001
Author(s)
Michael D. Garris
This report contains technical comments and recommendations regarding the ¿Interstate Criminal History Transmission Specification ¿ XML Version 2.01¿ published June 2001. This specification was written by a national task force, the Joint Task Force on Rap

User's Guide to NIST Fingerprint Image Software (NFIS)

November 1, 2001
Author(s)
Michael D. Garris, Craig I. Watson, R. McCabe, Charles L. Wilson
This report documents a public domain fingerprint image software distribution developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The software technology contained in this distribution is a

Federal Register Document Image Database 25, Volume 1

October 1, 1998
Author(s)
Michael D. Garris, Stanley Janet, W Klein
A new, fully-automated process has been developed at NIST to derive ground truth for document images. The method involves matching optical character recognition (OCR) results from a page with typesetting files for an entire book. Public domain software

Document Image Recognition and Retrieval: Where Are We?

June 1, 1998
Author(s)
Michael D. Garris
This paper discusses data collected as a result of planning a project to evaluate document recognition and information retrieval technologies. In the process of establishing the project, a Request for Comment (RFC) was widely distributed throughout the

Creating and Validating a Large Database for METTREC

December 1, 1997
Author(s)
W Klein, Michael D. Garris
The National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] is in the process of setting up a new series of conferences named the Metadata Text Retrieval Conferences [METTREC]. It will focus on evaluating document conversion using optical character

Impact of Image Quality in Machine Print Optical Character Recognition

December 1, 1997
Author(s)
Michael D. Garris, Stanley Janet, W Klein
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of setting up a new series of conferences named the Metadata Text Retrieval Conferences (METTREC). They will focus on evaluating two critical technologies: document conversion