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Information Technology

Biometrics

News and Updates

Events

ANSI Workshop

ANSI/NIST-ITL Update Workshop

Tue, Apr 22 - Thu, Apr 24 2025
Join us in Rockville for a directed discussion of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2025 standard update at the NIST NCCoE Facility

Projects and Programs

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Proprietary Fingerprint Template (PFT) program is an ongoing biometric technology evaluation program measuring the performance of fingerprint template generation and one-to-one verification software using vendor proprietary fingerprint templates

Multimodal Biometrics

Ongoing
MBARK: to advance standards in biometric acquisition client technologies MBGC: to focus R&D community on multiple biometric applications to advance innovation while NIST assesses performance of emerging technologies

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