SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Iris Image Quality Evaluation and Calibration (IQCE)
- Notice Date
- 10/23/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-10-102209
- Archive Date
- 5/15/2010
- Point of Contact
- Richard Cordero, Phone: 3019753976
- E-Mail Address
-
rcordero@nist.gov
(rcordero@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Subject: Iris Image Quality Evaluation and Calibration (IQCE) Notice Type: Special Notice Synopsis: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, on behalf of the Information Access Division is issuing a special notice to inform the public of IQCE activities supporting a new, formal, standard addressing Iris quality. The purpose of this special notice is to reach a wider audience and doesn’t involve procurement actions. NO SOLICITATION IS OR WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS NOTICE. That standard; ISO/IEC 29794-Biometric sample quality – Part 6: Iris image data; was initiated by the Working Group 3 of the ISO SC 37 committee in July 2009. The standard will define a vector of quality components each of which is some quantitative measure of a subject-specific or image-specific covariate. The current working draft (SC 37 N 3331) defines 21 subject or image covariates and 12 metrics for assessing the utility of an iris image. The 12 quality metrics are mostly quantification of the covariates. IQCE will evaluate the influence of these quality metrics on iris recognition accuracy. In addition, any measure identified as being influential on accuracy will be considered. The outcome will be a refined list of quality metrics with tolerance bounds for each. Furthermore, IQCE will establish precise methods for measuring each metric. This ensures development of a clear, tested and implementable iris image quality by excluding or avoiding any over-prescriptive and non-testable statements. The overall effect of IQCE and the ISO/IEC 29794-6 standard will be to validate and support camera imaging properties and system design. In addition, IQCE aims to evaluate the effectiveness of image quality assessment algorithms (IQAAs) that produce a scalar overall image quality in predicting the recognition accuracy of particular comparison algorithms (from the supplier of the IQAA), and of other algorithms. Per the IREX I result that quality scores are not immediately interoperable, IQCE will establish a score calibration procedure for IQAAs. This activity encourages participation from the main commercial providers and academic institutions, non-profit research laboratories and consultancies for which prototype implementations exist. The NIST Iris Exchange Program was initiated at NIST in support of an expanded marketplace of iris-based applications based on standardized interoperable iris imagery. IREX I was primarily conducted in support of the ISO/IEC 19794-6 standard, now under revision. It secondarily supports the recently completed ANSI/NIST ITL 1-2007 Type 17 standard, as derived from the ISO/IEC 19794-6:2005 parent, and future revisions thereof. The Iris Quality Calibration and Evaluation (IQCE) is the second activity under the IREX iris image interoperability umbrella. Draft of IQCE test plan and API is posted for public review at http://iris.nist.gov/irexII/IQCE_conops_API_v2_22oct09.pdf. For more information and schedule visit http://iris.nist.gov/irexII/. NIST intends to publish the results of the IREX II IQCE before the end of 2010. Contracting Office Address: 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640 Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1640 Primary Point of Contact: Technical contact: Elham Tabassi NIST Information Access Division 301 975 5292 tabassi@nist.gov Secondary Point of Contact: Ricardo Cordero Contract Specialist ricardo.cordero@nist.gov Phone: 301-975-3976 Fax: 301-975-8904
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