NIST Image Group's
Mugshot/Face Research

Announcements

NIST Internal Reports and Publications

A complete listing of NIST IRs and publications written by the Image Group.

Mugshot/Face Test Data on CD-ROM

A listing of NIST Special Databases useful for evaluating mugshot/face identification systems.

Facial Recognition Grand Challenge

2nd Workshop Summary Version 1.0a

Facial Recognition Vendor Test 2002

Results:
• Overview and Summary [544KB]
• Evaluation Report [4.0MB]
• Technical Appendices [7.2MB]

• Supplemental Report [1,742KB] - This report is intended to supplement the primary FRVT 2002 reports and to be relevant to more specialized audiences, particularly standards makers, policy makers, and developers in face recognition and other biometric fields including fusion.

Facial Recognition Vendor Test 2006

Results:
• FRVT 2006 and ICE 2006 Large-Scale Results [544KB]

Best Practice Recommendation for the Capture of Mugshots

• Version 2.0 - Application of the practices contained in this recommendation will make the conversion of existing photographic collections and the creation of new mugshot and facial images more uniform and consistent.

• Gray Calibration of Digital Cameras to Meet NIST Best Practice Recommendation (NISTIR 6322 [221K]) - This paper gives a methodology for calibrating digital cameras to render gray images close to the eighteen percent gray intensity level specified in the BPR document.

Mugshot & Facial Image Standards

This is part of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 Fingerprint Standard

Image Group's FTP site

This is a link to the top level of our groups anonymous ftp.

Created May 22, 1996.
Last modified April 5, 2007.
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