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NIST Special Database 14. NIST Mated Fingerprint Card pairs 2 (MFCP2)

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson
NIST Special Database 14 is being distributed for use in development and testing of automated fingerprint classification and matchingsystems on a set of images which approximate a natural horizontal distribution of the National Crime Information Center

NIST Special Database 18. NIST Mugshot Identification Database (MID)

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson
NIST Special Database 18 is being distributed for use in development and testing of automated mugshot identification systems. The database consists of three CD-ROMs, containing a total of 3248 images of variable size using lossless compression. Each CD-ROM

MINEX II Performance of Fingerprint Match-on-Card Algorithms - Phase II Report

February 29, 2008
Author(s)
Patrick J. Grother, Wayne J. Salamon, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson
The MINEX II trial was conducted to evaluate the accuracy and speed of Match-on-Card verification algorithms. These run on ISO/IEC 7816 smart cards. They compare conformant reference and verification instances of the ISO/IEC 19794-2 COMPACT CARD

Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) for the Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

June 12, 2007
Author(s)
Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Brian J. Cochran, Patrick J. Grother, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a series of tests for evaluating the state of the art in Automated Latent Fingerprint matching. The intent of the testing is to quantify the core algorithmic capability of contemporary

Correlation Filters for Elastic-Distorted Live-Scan Fingerprint Recognition

August 15, 2006
Author(s)
D P. Casasent, Craig I. Watson
This is a summary of a multi-year study of the use of distortion-invariant filters for recognition of live-scan dab fingerprints with elastic distortions. These fingerprints are characterized by elastic distortions. NIST special database 24 is used; it

MINEX Performance and Interoperability of the INCITS 378 Fingerprint Template

March 2, 2006
Author(s)
Patrick Grother, R. McCabe, Craig I. Watson, Michael D. Indovina, Wayne J. Salamon, Patricia A. Flanagan, Elham Tabassi, Elaine M. Newton, Charles L. Wilson
While the interchange of fingerprint image data provides the greatest interoperability between dissimilar fingerprint recognition systems, standards exist that specify the location and formatting of processed minutiae locations data, or templates. Minutiae

Two Finger Matching with Vendor SDK Matchers

July 1, 2005
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Charles L. Wilson, Michael D. Indovina, Brian J. Cochran
This report is an extension of the NIST Studies of one-to-one Fingerprint Matching with Vendor SDK Matchers which evaluated the accuracy of SDK (Software Development Kit) based on COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) fingerprint matching systems for one-to-one

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 Analysis Report

March 1, 2005
Author(s)
Brad Ulery, R. A. Hicklin, Craig I. Watson, Michael D. Indovina, Kayee Hanaoka
The Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation 2004 (Slap Seg04) was conducted to assess the accuracy of algorithms used to segment slap fingerprint images into individual fingerprint images. Segmenters from ten different organizations were evaluated on data

Effect of Image Size and Compression on One-to-One Fingerprint Matching

February 1, 2005
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Charles L. Wilson
NIST has conducted testing of one-to-one fingerprint matching systems to evaluate the effect of image size and compression on the accuracy of the one-to-one matching process. Images from three live-scan fingerprint scanners collected by the Departments of

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

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation 2003: Summary of Results and Analysis Report

June 30, 2004
Author(s)
Charles L. Wilson, Patrick J. Grother, Ross J. Micheals, S C. Otto, Craig I. Watson, R. A. Hicklin, H Korves, Brad Ulery, M Zoepfl
The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003 was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification systems. The FpVTE is one of the tests that NIST has conducted in order to fulfill part of its

Studies of One-to-One Fingerprint Matching With Vendor SDK Matchers

June 24, 2004
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Charles L. Wilson, Karen Marshall, Michael D. Indovina, Robert D. Snelick
NIST has conducted testing of one-to-one SDK (Software Development Kit) based COTS fingerprint matching systems to evaluate the accuracy of one-to-one matching used in the US-VISIT program. Fingerprint matching systems from eight vendors not used in US

Studies of Biometric Fusion Executive Summary

April 19, 2004
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Brad Ulery, R. A. Hicklin, William Fellner, P Halinan
This is an evaluation of different score-level fusion techniques, and the results of a variety of fusion experiments using face and fingerprint data from 187,000 individuals, with matcher scores from three fingerprint and three face recognition systems

Fingerprint Image Quality

April 13, 2004
Author(s)
Elham Tabassi, Charles Wilson, Craig I. Watson
In this report, we propose a new definition of quality of fingerprint impressions and present detailed algorithms to measure image quality for fingerprints. We define fingerprint image quality as a predictor of matcher performance before a matcher

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

Fingerprint Matching Using Distortion Tolerant Filters

February 13, 2003
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, D P. Casasent
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of distortion tolerant filters to improve the performance of fingerprint correlation matching. Previous work has shown that correlation matching of fingerprints is susceptible to larger false alarm rates than

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

Distortion-Tolerant Filter for Elastic-Distorted Fingerprint Matching

March 1, 2000
Author(s)
Craig I. Watson, Patrick J. Grother, D P. Casasent
This paper gives results for using distortion tolerant filters to improve performance of fingerprint correlation matching. Three types of distortion tolerant filters were tested: summation, weighted, and MINACE. A set of 55 fingers were used from NIST