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Information Technology

Biometrics

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

Tattoo Recognition Technology-Challenge (Tatt-C)

Completed
Tatt-C Dataset November 2, 2016: NIST has announced a follow-on activity to Tatt-C, which is a large-scale, sequestered evaluation called Tatt-E. Tatt-C Publications September 15, 2015: The first public report on Tatt-C has been published as NISTIR 8078 – Tattoo Recognition Technology – Challenge

Fingerprint Recognition

Ongoing
N2N Fingerprint Capture Challenge IARPA has invited the biometrics research community to participate in the Nail-to-Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Capture Challenge. This official U.S. Government Challenge problem seeks to reward researchers for creating autonomous rolled capture devices whose images

Face and Ocular Challenge Series (FOCS)

Completed
Overview The goal of the Face and Ocular Challenge Series (FOCS) is to engage the research community to develop robust face and ocular recognition algorithms along a broad front. Currently the FOCS consists of three tracks: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (GBU); Video; and Ocular. These

Publications

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