Latent Testing Workshop Workshop :: Online Proceedings

April 5 & 6, 2006
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Presentations of the NIST Latent Testing Workshop

This page is intended as a permanent archive of the 29 presentations delivered to the approximately 50 attendees of the April 2006 NIST Latent Testing Workshop.

V.N. Dyornychenko, M. D. Garris, "Summary of NIST Latent Fingerprint Testing Workshop" NISTIR 7377[806K], November 2006

The presentations are listed alphabetically by speaker name. The titles of the presentations may differ slightly from those on the presentation title page. The "P numbers"(in parenthesis) refer to the order of the presentations in the workshop, and may used to correlate with the workshop program. In one case (P-2) the author declined publication. Several of the presentations posted here are slightly edited versions of the ones presented at the workshop. The organizers are grateful to the speakers for their assistance is preparing this proceedings.

  1. Nigel Allinson and Ian Gledhill, Wireless Transmission of Fingerprints , University of Sheffield/PITO, UK (P-17).

  2. Behnam Bavarian, Thresholds and Parameters for Automatic Decisions , Motorola, Inc. (P-14)

  3. Mark Branchflower, Implementation of Remote Latent Search Capability at Interpol , Interpol (P-11)

  4. Wally Briefs, Maximizing Latent Identification Performance , Cogent, Inc. (P-13).

  5. Vladimir Dvornychenko, Latent Test Sets "Wish List" , NIST (P-26b).

  6. Jeri Eaton and Wade Petroka, Needs and Applications of Latents at King County, WA, Sheriff Office , King County, WA, Sheriff Office (P-9).

  7. Jean-Christophe Fondeur, Experience in Lights-out Processing , Sagem-Morpho Corp. (P-12).

  8. Michael Garris, Proposed Latent Testing Methodology , NIST (P-27).

  9. Danny Greathouse, Need for Rapid Turnaround at US-VISIT , DHS/US-VISIT Support Contractor (P-3).

  10. Patrick Grother, Offline Biometric Testing at NIST , NIST (P-25).

  11. Masanori Hara, Thoughts on Automatic Latent Processing and Matching Algorithms , NEC Corp.(P-15).

  12. Marty Herman and Vladimir Dvornychenko, Opening Remarks , NIST (P-0).

  13. Austin Hicklin, CDEFFS -- Extended Feature Sets , Mitretek Systems (P-18).

  14. Austin Hicklin, Quantifying Latent Quality , Mitretek Systems (P-23).

  15. Austin Hicklin, CDEFFS Committee Meeting , Mitretek Systems (P-28).

  16. Tom Hopper, ULW pproach for Sharing Latent Identification Services , FBI/CJIS (P-16).

  17. Anil Jain and Yi Chen, High Resolution Matching Using Level 3 Features , Michigan State University (P-19)

  18. George Kiebuzinski, Lessons Learned during IAFIS Source Selection , Mitretek Systems (P-24)

  19. Deborah Leben, Applications ULW at DHS , DHS/USSS (P-7).

  20. Gordon Low, Needs and applications of Latents at CA Dep't of Justice , CA Department of Justice (P-8).

  21. Stephen Meagher, Latent Processing at the FBI/LPU , FBI/LPU (P-1).

  22. Francis P. Senese, Problems Experienced with Livescans , Joliet, IL, forensic Science Laboratory (P-5).

  23. Thomas Smith, Need for AFIS Vendors to Improve Search Capability , LA Sheriff Dept. (P-4).

  24. Ambika Suman, Evaluating Automated Finger and Palm Mark (latent) Searching , PITO, UK (P-10).

  25. B. Scott Swann, Needs and Applications of Latents at FBI/CJIS , FBI/CJIS (P-6).

  26. Elham Tabassi, Quality Measure Workshop Lessons Learned , NIST (P-21).

  27. Phillip Wasserman, Level 3 Feature Detection Using Support Vector Machines , NIST (P-20).

  28. Kasey Wertheim, Latent Quality Measures , DoD Biometrics Support contractor, Lockheed Martin (P-22).

  29. Stephen Wood, Test Sets at NIST , NIST (P-26a).

Sponsors

The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate(S & T).

The workshop is organized and sponsored by the Information Access Division of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Supporters

The workshop is supported by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The workshop is supported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US VISIT and the Secret Service.

The workshop is supported by the Department of Defense, Biometric Management Office.