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NIST’s second Innovative Technologies Showcase, a setting where three NIST researchers will present their latest and greatest technology, has gotten off to a
Background
Over the last decade, numerous government and industry organizations have or are moving toward deploying automated biometric technologies to provide increased security for their systems and facilities. Six U.S. Government organizations recently sponsored the
2024-01-23 FIVE 2024 Announced! The Face in Video Evaluation (FIVE) 2024 is being conducted to assess the capability of face recognition algorithms to correctly identify or ignore persons appearing in video sequences – i.e., the open-set identification problem. For more information, please visit the
Overview of the FRGC Not since the mid 1990s has there been such a renewed interest in developing new methods for automatic face recognition. This renewed interest has been fueled by advances in computer vision techniques, computer design, sensor design, and interest in fielding face recognition
This document describes a new approach to localizing the iris boundaries in non-ideal iris images. The proposed algorithm starts by applying a series of
About The NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT) is a cross-platform GUI application which allows a user to load a pair of fingerprint
The biometrics community recommended a new, open source, generalized version of NFIQ to be developed in consultation and collaboration with users and industry.
NIST is pleased to announce that it has developed a capability to translate input and output from the major forensic dental systems (each of which uses
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