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IEG: Iris Camera Selection Guidance-Commercial

Description (current as of July 2021): This is an ongoing discussion of camera selection guidance for parties interested in commercial...

IEG: Iris Examiner Training Discussion

Description (current as of January 2021): This is an ongoing discussion of training and procedures for human iris image examiners who might...

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NIST Releases Data to Help Measure Accuracy of Biometric Identification

December 12, 2019

New biometric research data — ranging from fingerprints to facial photographs and iris scans — is now available from the National Institute of Standards and...

IEG Announcements Archive 2023

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2 016 Return To IEG Homepage 07/26/2023 Our annual meeting on June 15, 2023 was well attended; the...

Iris Experts Group II (IEG-II) May 2017 Meeting

Date: Thursday, 25, May 201 Location: Lecture Room D, Administration Building, NIST Campus, Gaithersburg MD 20899 Registration: IEG-II...

Products and Services

Image Group Open Source Server (NIGOS) Encrypting Software/Data for Transmission to NIST Software Biometric Evaluation Framework Fingerprint...

Image Group Resources

Biometric Special Databases and Software Biometrics Evaluations INCITS Standardized Biometric Data Image Group Publications (by year) Image...

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard Workshops Homepage

ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2025 Standards Update Workshop Join us virtually on August 25-29, 2025 for a directed discussion of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2025...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2015 Publication

B.J. Wing, " Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 2.0 Special Publication 500-280 v2" (NIST SP 500-280 v2) P.J. Grother, J...

Iris Experts Group II (IEG-II) June 2016 Meeting

Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 Location: Lecture Room A, Administration Building, NIST Campus, Gaithersburg MD 20899 Registration: IEG-II...

Iris Experts Group - II Homepage

A forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to iris recognition developers, USG agencies and their staff, and other parties that are advancing

IREX VI homepage

December 1, 2015: In the two years since the IREX VI report, a number of criticisms were published by researchers at U. of Notre Dame. NIST...

IREX datasets

The data used in IREX comes from publicly available datasets and from operational data provided by various branches of the US Government...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2014 Publication

P. J. Phillips, J. Zheng, Z. Jiang, R. Chellappa, " Submodular Attribute Selection for Action Recognition in Video" Neural Information...

IREX VII Homepage

Deprecated IREX VII was a planned activity intended to provide a framework for communication and interaction between components in an iris...

Iris Device Qualification Test (IDQT)

September 23, 2013 - Disposition of comments We are grateful for the comments received on the initial draft of the IDQT specification. These...

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard Workshop 2013

held on January 28-30, 2013 at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD This was the agenda for the conference. For those presentations that are available in...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2006-2008 Publications

Link to the Image Group Publications Archived Homepage P. J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, G. H. Givens, B. Draper, Y. M. Lui, " Focus on...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2009 Publications

Link to the Image Group Publications Archive Page Y. M. Lui, D. Bolme, B. Draper, J. R. Beveridge, G. H. Givens, P. J. Phillips, " A Meta...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2010 Publications

Link to the Image Group Publications Archive Page. A. J. O'Toole, P. J. Phillips, S. Weimer, D. A. Roark, J. Ayadd, R. Barwick, J. Dunlop, "...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2011 Publications

Link to the Image Group Publications Archive Page. E. Tabassi, P. J. Grother, W. J. Salamon, " Iris Quality Calibration and Evaluation (IQCE...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2013 Publications

Link back to the Image Group Publications Archived Page. P.J. Grother, W.J. Salamon, R. Chandramouli, " Biometric Specifications for...

Image Group Fiscal Year 2012 Publications

Link to the Image Group Publications Archive Page P. J. Phillips, J. Zheng, Z. Jiang, R. Chellappa, " Cross-View Action Recognition via a...

Image Group Archived Publications

FY 2015 FY 2014 FY 2013 FY 2012 FY 2011 FY 2010 FY 2009 FY 2006-2008

IREX IV homepage

Jan 24, 2014: The second part of the IREX IV report, titled IREX IV Part 2: Compression Profiles for Iris Image Compression, is now...

IBPC 2012 Presentations

March 5-9, 2012 National Institute of Standards and Technology Presentations of the International Biometric Performance Conference, 2012...

Iris Image Quality Reading

This page lists reports, white papers, publications relevant to Iris Image Quality. The content is under active development, and NIST...

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard 2011 Workshop

held at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD on March 1-3, 2011 The second workshop was convened on March 1 at NIST. Over 100 persons participated in...

ICE 2006 Frequently Asked Questions

The desired method of communications with ICE management is via this FAQ page. Answers to questions regarding the ICE will be posted on this...

ICE 2006 Workshop

The ICE 2006 large-scale results are available in the combined FRVT 2006 and ICE 2006 Large-Scale Results evaluation report. We received...

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