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Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation

March 11, 2021

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Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Craig I. Watson, Gregory Fiumara, John Grantham

While contactless fingerprint capture devices stand to provide for many benefits, images from this nascent technology are sufficiently different than traditional contact-collected images thereby warranting the separation of these new contactless

White-Box Evaluation of Fingerprint Matchers: Robustness to Minutiae Perturbations

January 6, 2021

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Steven Grosz, Joshua J. Engelsma, Nicholas G. Paulter Jr., Anil K. Jain

Prevailing evaluations of fingerprint recognition systems have been performed as end-to-end black-box tests of fingerprint identification or authentication accuracy. However, performance of the end-to-end system is subject to errors arising in any of its

Ongoing Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 6B: Face recognition accuracy with face masks using post-COVID-19 algorithms

November 30, 2020

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Mei L. Ngan, Patrick J. Grother, Kayee K. Hanaoka

This is the second of a series of reports on the performance of face recognition algorithms on faces occluded by protective face masks commonly worn to reduce inhalation and exhalation of viruses. This is a continuous study is being run under the Ongoing

Evaluating the Operational Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery on Matcher Performance

September 15, 2020

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Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, John D. Grantham, Craig I. Watson

This study set out to examine the operational impact of introducing contactless fingerprint imagery to a modern fingerprint matching system that was designed for touch-collected images in either a standard Ten-Print operational matching pathway or a Mobile

Ongoing Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 6A: Face recognition accuracy with masks using pre- COVID-19 algorithms

July 24, 2020

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Mei L. Ngan, Patrick J. Grother, Kayee K. Hanaoka

This is the first of a series of reports on the performance of face recognition algorithms on faces occluded by masks, run under the Ongoing Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) executed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This

Analysis of Iris Images in Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters

June 17, 2020

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James R. Matey, Patrick J. Grother, George W. Quinn

In this paper we present results that expand on the Afghan Girl study by Daugman using gray-scale photographs of 4 subjects taken every year for 40 years: The Brown Sisters photographic project by Nicholas Nixon. We extracted iris images from the

Analysis of Iris Images from Twins Day  2010

June 16, 2020

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James R. Matey, Patrick J. Grother, George W. Quinn

Each year since 1976, the town of Twinsburg, Ohio has held a Twins Day Festival. Over the past 43 years over $77,000$ sets of twins and multiples have attended -- with many repeat visits over the years. Prof. Jeremy Dawson and other staff from the the West

Interoperability Assessment 2019: Contactless-to-Contact Fingerprint Capture

May 19, 2020

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John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Kenneth Ko, Shahram Orandi, Craig I. Watson

This report describes computational comparison measurements as well as match error analysis applied to fingerprint images collected by researchers of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in May of 2019. Fingerprint images from 200

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Part 4: MORPH - Performance of Automated Face Morph Detection

March 6, 2020

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Mei L. Ngan, Patrick J. Grother, Kayee K. Hanaoka, Jason M. Kuo

The FRVT MORPH test provides ongoing independent testing of prototype face morphing attack detection (MAD) technologies. The evaluation is designed to obtain commonly measured assessment of morph detection capability to inform developers and current and

Two Decades of Speaker Recognition Evaluation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

March 1, 2020

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Craig S. Greenberg, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Lisa Mason, Douglas A. Reynolds

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has been conducting Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SREs) for over 20 years. This article provides an overview of the practice of evaluating speaker recognition technology as it has evolved during this

Forensic Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach

February 17, 2020

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Melissa Taylor, Carolyne Bird, Brett Bishop, Ted Burkes, Michael P. Caligiuri, Bryan Found, Wesley P. Grose, Lauren R. Logan, Kenneth E. Melson, Mara L. Merlino, Larry S. Miller, Linton Mohammed, Jonathan Morris, John Paul Osborn, Nikola Osborne, Brent Ostrum, Christopher P. Saunders, Scott A. Shappell, H. David Sheets, Sargur N. Srihari, Reinoud D. Stoel, Thomas W. Vastrick, Heather E. Waltke, Emily J. Will

For some 6,000 years, humans have made an indelible mark on history through the loops, strokes, and other characters that constitute the written form of language - handwriting. The study of handwriting is also an important part of forensic science. By

Face Recognition Vendor Test Part 3: Demographic Effects

December 19, 2019

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Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, Kayee K. Hanaoka

NIST Special Database 302: Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge

December 11, 2019

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Gregory P. Fiumara, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Elham Tabassi, Bryan Woodgate, Christopher Boehnen

In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) held a data collection as part of its Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Challenge. Participating Challengers deployed devices designed to collect an image of the full nail to nail