NIST FORM-BASED HANDPRINT RECOGNITION SYSTEM.

NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. has been distributing public-domain handprint hand·print
n.
An outline or indentation left by a hand. recognition software since 1994. Release 2 of the NIST Form-Based Handprint Recognition System was made available in 1997, and since that time, over 700 copies have been shipped all around the world.

In July 2000, a new release (2.1) was made available. This includes updated and more robust numerical methods used to perform eigenvector-based feature extraction In pattern recognition and in image processing, Feature extraction is a special form of dimensionality reduction.

When the input data to an algorithm is too large to be processed and it is suspected to be notoriously redundant (much data, but not much information) then the and additional compilation scripts that support GNU gnu (n

) or wildebeest (wĭl`dəbēst'), large African antelope, genus Connochaetes. "gcc" and "gmake" (www.gnu.org) and are targeted, but not limited, to the Linux operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. (www.linux.org). This release also may be compiled to run on computers running the family of Win32 operating systems by first installing the Cygwin library and associated port of GNU tools (sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin).

NIST announced this new release to previous software recipients on July 7, 2000, and within 1 week, nearly 100 requests were received, with half from U.S.-based industry and universities and half international. After 6 years, interest in this NIST software remains high. It is available free of charge on CD by e-mailing a letter of request to mgarris@nist.gov.

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Publication:	Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Article Type:	Evaluation
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Date:	Sep 1, 2000
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