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-  Programs/Projects  Expand or Collapse    -  Fingerprint  Expand or Collapse      -  ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard 
    -  Fingerprint Compression  Expand or Collapse        -  WSQ Certification Procedure 
      -  Biometric Compression Information 
      -  JPEG 2000 Conformance Testing 
    -  Fingerprint Recognition  Expand or Collapse        -  Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) 
      -  Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) 
      -  Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 
      -  Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) 
      -  Biometric Quality 
      -  Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT) 
    -  Next Generation Fingerprint Technologies  Expand or Collapse        -  Contactless Fingerprint Capture 
      -  Fast Tenprint Capture 
      -  Statistical Friction Ridge Analysis (SFRA) 
  -  Iris  Expand or Collapse      -  IRIS Experts Group II 
    -  Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 
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  -  Face  Expand or Collapse      -  Chexia Face Recognition 
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-  Resources  Expand or Collapse    -  Biometric Special Databases and Software 
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  -  Software  Expand or Collapse      -  Biometric Evaluation Framework 
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    -  BiomDI - Software tools supporting Standard Biometrics Data Interchange Formats 
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## Friction Ridge

                  - Special Database 302 : Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Challenge ( user's guide  available).
                  - Special Database 301 : Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Challenge Dry Run ( user's guide  available).
                  - Special Database 300 : Uncompressed Plain and Rolled Images from Fingerprint Cards ( user's guide  available).

## Mugshot/Face

                  - Special Database 32 : Multiple Encounter Dataset (MEDS I & II)	                     - MEDS I  user's guide .
                    - MEDS II   user's guide .
                  - Special Database 18 : NIST Mugshot Identification Database ( user's guide  available).
                  - Color FERET : Facial image database collected in the mid-1990s.

## OCR 

                  - Special Database 2 : NIST Structured Forms Reference Set of Binary Images  ( user's guide  available).
                  - Special Database 6 : NIST Structured Forms Reference Set 2 of Binary Images ( user's guide  available).
                  - Special Database 19 : NIST Handprinted Forms and Characters Database ( user's guide  available).
                  - Public Domain OCR : NIST Form-based Handprint Recognition System.

## Software

                  - Biometric Evaluation Framework : C++ code for running biometric technology evaluations.
                  - NBIS : NIST Biometric Image Software (formerly "NFIS").
                  -  NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT) 

## Retired Databases 

### Friction Ridge 

                  - Special Database 4 : NIST 8-bit Gray Scale Images of Fingerprint Image Groups.   This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
                  - Special Database 9 : NIST 8-bit Gray Scale Images of Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs.  This database has been discontinued and is no longer available. 
                  - Special Database 10 : NIST Supplemental Fingerprint Card Data (SFCD) for NIST Special Database 9 with include rolled fingerprints and harder to find fingerprint classifications like arch, tented arch and low count loops.    This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
                  - Special Database 14 : NIST Mated Fingerprint Card Pairs 2.   	 Has 2,700 ten-print card pairs of rolled fingerprints (no plain impressions).   This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
                  -  NIST Special Database 27 and 27A: Fingerprint minutiae from latent and matching tenprint images **This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.** 
                  - Special Database 29 : Plain and Rolled Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards in 500 pixels per inch.   This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
                  - Special Database 30 : Plain and Rolled Images from Paired Fingerprint Cards in 1000 pixels per inch.  This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.

### **OCR**

                  - NIST Machine-Print Database of Gray Scale and Binary Images (MPDB) : The database was previously known as Special Database 8.  This database has been discontinued and is no longer available.
                  -  NIST Scientific and Technical Document Database: This database was formerly known as Special Database 20. **This database has been discontinued and no longer being supported but will be available upon request.** 
                  -  NIST Federal Register Document Image Database: Volume 1: This database was formerly known as Special Database 25. **This database has been discontinued and no longer being supported but will be available upon request.** 

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