NIST Special Databases and Software from the Image Group

This is a listing of test data produced by the Image Group for use in evaluating automated OCR, fingerprint classification/matching, and face recognition systems. Documentation files are in postscript format compressed with the UNIX compress utility. The approximate sizes of the compressed files are indicated in square brackets.

[OCR] [Fingerprints] [Mugshots/Face] [Iris]

Newest Items

Special Database 30 - Dual Resolution Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards.
documentation [807K]

OCR Databases

Special Database 1 - !**! Superseded by Special Database 19 !**!
[was NIST Binary Images of Printed Digits, Alphas, and Text.] Cancelled December 96.
Special Database 2 - NIST Structured Forms Reference Set of Binary Images.
documentation [321K], The file append_a.tar.Z [3,119K] should also be retrieved.
Special Database 3 - !**! Superseded by Special Database 19 !**!
[was Binary Handwritten Segmented Chars] Cancelled Mar 95.
Special Database 6 - NIST Structured Forms Reference Set 2 of Binary Images.
documentation [420K], The file append_a.tar.Z [3,119K] should also be retrieved.
Special Database 7 - !**! Superseded by Special Database 19 !**!
[was NIST Test Data 1 Binary Handprinted Chars] Cancelled Mar 95
Special Database 8 - NIST Machine-Print Database of Gray Scale and Binary Images.
documentation [32K]
Special Database 11 - NIST Binary Image Training Database of Census Miniforms
Special Database 12 - NIST Binary Image Training Database of Census Miniforms 2
Special Database 13 - NIST Binary Image Testing Database of Census Miniforms
Special Database 19 - NIST Handprinted Forms and Characters Database.
documentation [295K]
Special Database 20 - NIST Scientific and Technical Document Database.
documentation [231K]
Special Software 1 - NIST Scoring Package Release 1.0.
Public Domain OCR - NIST FORM-BASED HANDPRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEM (Release 2.2)
Special Database 25 Volume 1 - Federal Register Document Image Database.
documentation [2,196K] source code [329K]

Fingerprint Databases

Special Database 4 - NIST 8-bit Gray Scale Images of Fingerprint Image Groups.
documentation [509K]
Special Database 9 - NIST 8-Bit Gray Scale Images of Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs.
documentation [1,046K]
Special Database 10 - NIST Supplemental Fingerprint Card Data (SFCD) for NIST Special Database 9.
documentation [1,076K]
Special Database 14 - NIST Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs 2.
documentation [1,020K]
Special Database 24 - Digital Video of Live-Scan Fingerprint Data.
documentation [773K]
Special Database 27 - Fingerprint Minutiae from Latent and Matching Tenprint Images.
documentation [684K] sample data [1230K] source code [400K]
Special Database 29 - Plain and Rolled Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards.
documentation [825K]
Special Database 30 - Dual Resolution Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards.
documentation [807K]
NBIS - NIST Biometric Image Software
PCASYS - NIST Pattern-level Classification Automation System for Fingerprints.
Included on NBIS CDROM
NFIS2 - NIST Fingerprint Image Software Version2.
Included on NBIS CDROM

Mugshot/Face Databases

Special Database 18 - NIST Mugshot Identification Database.
documentation [32K]
Color FERET The Color FERET database

Iris Databases

ICE - Iris Challenge Evaluation

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Created May 22, 1996.
Last modified September 23, 2009.
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