How To Participate in SlapSeg04
Last updated 5 October 2004
NEW The deadline to register for SlapSeg04 was closed on 8 September 2004.
The deadline for software was closed on 4 October 2004.
- Application
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- Complete the Application to Participate in SlapSeg04
- Print and sign the form, and mail or FAX to the location designated
on the form.
- The signed Application must be received by 8 September 2004,
but would be welcomed before that date.
- Anonymous participation will not be permitted.
- Slap Segmentation Software
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- The Participants' Slap Segmentation software must comply with the SlapSeg04 API Specification.
- All software to be evaluated must be received by 4 October 2004, but would be welcomed before that date.
- Software is assumed to run on Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux 7.2, on
x86 platforms. Other options must be approved by the Test Liaison.
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- After Sample Data results have been validated (see below),
Participants should send the software to be evaluated to NIST. Software
can be sent by email to slapseg04@nist.gov,
or on CDROM to:
Slap Segmentation Evaluation 2004 Liaison
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Information Access Division (894)
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8940
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8940
- Sample Data
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- Participants must test their software using Sample data, and email these
results to the Test Liaison (at slapseg04@nist.gov) for validation before
sending software to NIST.
- Results from the Sample Data are requested by 27 September 2004, to
provide time to resolve any issues before the software deadline.
- Sample data shall be made available to all registered Participants beginning
in August 2004, on a Participant-only section of this website.
- Only a limited amount of sample data will be made available. The purpose
for this sample data is to provide data representative of the format
of the evaluation data, and may not be representative of the evaluation
data in terms of image quality or other characteristics.
- Since the fingerprints used for evaluation are considered Sensitive
but Unclassified data, none of the evaluation data can be made available
for testing or training of software.
- A separate set of "Practice Data" will be made available for Participants
who want additional slap data for testing or training. The Practice Data
set is simply NIST
Special Database 29 (SD29), which contains full sets of fingerprint
that were scanned from paper cards. The slap images from SD29 are representative
of the paper source slaps to be used in the evaluation. Unfortunately,
no livescan data can be released as sample or practice data.
- Communication with SlapSeg04 Personnel
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- All communication with SlapSeg04 personnel will be by sending email
to the Test Liaison, at slapseg04@nist.gov.
- All responses to comments or questions from SlapSeg04 Participants will
be in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages of this website.
- Evaluation
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- Only slap segmentation software will be evaluated: no scanners, matchers
or anything else.
- Evaluations will be conducted by SlapSeg04 personnel, using NIST computer
hardware.
- Software that is not compliant with the SlapSeg04 API Specification
cannot be evaluated.
- If the software being evaluated does not install and run easily, SlapSeg04
personnel will be very limited in their ability to work with the Participant
to correct any problems. The Test Liaison will be the sole judge of what
level of effort should be expended to install software.
- SlapSeg04 personnel may allow a Participant to enter more than one system
in the evaluation if space is available. Please contact the Test Liaison
if you are considering having more than one system evaluated.
- Release of Evaluation Results
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- Results will be published in the Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation
2004 Final Report, which should be released in early 2005.
SlapSeg04 is a project of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory's Information Access Division
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