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Biometric Special Databases and Software
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").
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.
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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.
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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.