April 2009: The ELFT-EFS Public Challenge Is Now Open
The ELFT-EFS Public Challenge is a practice evaluation: an open-book test on public data to validate formats and protocols. The results are not for substantive analysis, and participants will remain anonymous in their results. The public challenge will be conducted from 15 April 2009 through 15 June 2009. The ELFT-EFS Public Challenge instructions and datasets will be finalized on 15 April. For information on how to participate in the public challenge, please click here.
A workshop will be held in late June 2009 to discuss results and lessons learned from the ELFT-EFS Public Challenge.
February 2009: Announcing NIST Latent Fingerprint Workshop 2009
We are pleased to announce NIST Latent Fingerprint Workshop 2009, to be held on March 19 and 20 at NIST. This workshop will present and discuss the results of the recently completed NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT) Phase II -- which evaluated the performance of "lights-out" encoding and matching of latent images. This workshop will also provide a venue for the upcoming NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets (ELFT-EFS).
November 2008: NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets
We are pleased to announce ELFT-EFS - the FBI-sponsored NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets. The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of human latent examiner marked fingerprint features on latent fingerprint search accuracy, specifically with respect to the comparative accuracy of image-only searches, image+minutiae searches, and image+extended feature searches. The attachment outlines the evaluation, which begins with a public challenge problem and workshop, March 19-20, 2009.
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As additional information becomes available, updates will be made to this website with notifications sent to interested parties.
To register as an interested party, please send contact information (name, affiliation, email, telephone) to latent-efs@nist.gov