NIST Latent Fingerprint Testing Workshop 2009
March 19 & 20, 2009
National Institute of
Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland
20899
This workshop will serve two purposes:
I) To provide a venue to present and discuss the results of the recently completed NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT) Phase II, which evaluated the preformance of lights-out encoding and matching of latent images. Discussion of future topics and directions for lights-out testing will be discussed and feedback solicited.
II) To provide a venue for the next test, the NIST Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies: Extended Feature Sets (ELFT-EFS). The purpose of this evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of human latent examiner-marked fingerprint features on automated latent fingerprint search accuracy, specifically with respect to the comparative accuracy of image-only searches, image+minutiae searches, and image+extended feature searches. The workshop is being held to provide input to NIST in the planning of this evaluation of matcher algorithms using various combinations of Extended Friction Ridge Features.
Sponsors
The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate(S & T) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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).