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About IAD
The Information Access Division (IAD), part of NIST 's Information Technology Laboratory , provides measurements and standards to advance technologies dealing with access to multimedia and other complex information.

Division Chief:
Dr. Martin Herman

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IAD Program Areas:
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Measurement and evaluation of speech recognition, speaker recognition, spoken language understanding, information search, retrieval, and filtering, document understanding, summarization, interactive speech interfaces

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Measurement, evaluation and standards for fingerprint matching and interchange, criminal justice information systems, face recognition and multi-modal biometrics

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Measurement, standards, and evaluation for usability of interactive systems, web usability testing, usability reporting formats, accessibility testing

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Measurement, evaluation and standards for multimedia, including searching, filtering, MPEG and JPEG standards, 3D on the web, video retrieval and motion image quality

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Measurement, standards, integration and interoperability of intelligent, interactive environments embedded with computers, information appliances, portable devices and multi-modal sensors.


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Site created on May 29, 2001
Last updated: Friday, July 20, 2007



IAD News & Highlights

Workshops/Conferences

  • TREC Conference
  • Past Conferences

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FVRT) 2002 Results


Report on Biometrics Released to Congress

IAD in the News

  • NYTimes - DHS Rescue Robot Standards
  • Face Recognition - Govt.Computer News
  • Better Face Recognition Software
  • New Translation Technology To Aid U.S. Forces
  • Medical News Today - Nanoscale Pores
  • GCN - Face & Iris Recognition Tests
  • LiveScience - FRVT(Face Reco Vendor Test)
  • ZDNET - FRVT
  • USA Today - FRVT
  • Nanoscale Pore work featured in Nanomednet article
  • MBARK featured on Tech Beat
  • ComputerWorld - Minutiae Interoperability (MINEX)
  • NetworkWorld - Minutiae Interoperability (MINEX)
  • Government Computer News - Minutiae Interoperability (MINEX)
  • Government Innovators Network - Minutiae Interoperability (MINEX)
  • PhysOrg - Minutiae Interoperability (MINEX)
  • MINEX Minutiae Study
  • NIST finalizes biometric specification for HSPD-12
  • IAD biometrics work mentioned in article
  • IAD biometrics work highlighted in New Scientist article

IAD News Archives

IAD Highlights


NIST Visitor Info


Technical inquiries: web894@nist.gov
Information Access Division
NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8940, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8940.

IAD website comments: web894@nist.gov with corrections, comments or feedback.

General NIST inquiries:
(301) 975-NIST (6478)
TTY (301) 975-8295

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