. In this paper, we provide an overview of biometrics and discuss some of the salient research issues that need to be addressed for making biometric technology an effective tool for providing information security. The primary contribution of this overview includes: 1) examining applications where biometrics can

The stafe of development of advanced timing systems at NIST is dtscfibed. Thc paper p " t s work on cesium and rubidium fiequaacy stcmndards, stotcdion fiqucncg standanis, diode lcrsvs used to pump such slcurdcuds, time twrsfcr, and methods for chucierizing clocks, oscillcltors and time

Abstract. The NIST HumanID Evaluation Framework, or HEF, is an effort to design, implement, and deploy standards for the robust and complete documentation of the biometric system evaluation process. The HEF is leverages contemporary technologies, specifically XML, for the formal description

The Automated Welding Manufacturing System (AWMS) is a research and development testbed for automated gas metal arc welding technology. Its activities are aimed at developing and validating standards that will contribute to increased use of automated welding technology by manufacturers

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search and has the ability to compensate adaptively for the nonlinear deformations and inexact transformations between an input and a template. To establish an objective assessment of our system, both the Michigan State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST 9 fingerprint

Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to the debate of biometrics and privacy concerns by examining the existing legal and academic debates. Several controversial legal problems in the biometric context will be discussed such as the following: the legal status of biometric data, the storage

In the last several years we have made many improvements to NIST-F1 (a laser-cooled Cs fountain primary frequency standard at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado) resulting in a reduction by over a factor of 2 in the uncertainty of the realization

This paper describes the systems developed by the Software Technologies Working Group of the University of the Basque Country (EHU) for the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Eval-uation (LRE). One primary and three contrastive systems were submitted, all of them fusing five component subsystems: a Lin

Abstract: This article describes how the fields of biometrics and forensic science can contribute and benefit from each other. The aim is to foster the development of new methods and tools improving the current forensic biometric applications and allowing for the creation of new ones. The article