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Information Technology

Biometrics

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard

Ongoing
The standard specifies formats to be used for exchanging fingerprint and other image data.

Iris Experts Group - II Homepage

A forum for the discussion of technical questions of interest to USG agencies and their staff that are employing or may employ iris recognition to carry out

Fingerprint Compression

Ongoing
To establish normative guidance and certification pathways for the compression of fingerprint imagery.

Publications

Repeatability of Contactless and Contact Fingerprint Capture

Author(s)
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini
A new generation of contactless fingerprint capture devices has recently emerged. These devices provide the ability to capture a fingerprint without making

Software

NFIQ 2

The biometrics community recommended a new, open source, generalized version of NFIQ to be developed in consultation and collaboration with users and industry.

Biometric Evaluation Framework

Biometric Evaluation Framework is a set of C++ classes, error codes, and design patterns used to create a common environment to provide logging, data management

Awards