Research Database

Information about various universities researching biometric technology can be found by visiting the following web sites:

• Biometric Systems Laboratory, DEIS - University of Bologna
• Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)
• Michigan State University Biometric Research Homepage
• MIT Media Lab's Vision and Modeling Group
• Ohio University Center for Automatic Identification
• San Jose State University Biometric Research Center

Face

• Facial Analysis, (Perception Science Laboratory, University of California)
• Facial Animation, (Perception Science Laboratory, University of California)
• Face Recognition Homepage
• Microsoft Research Vision Technology Group

Fingerprints

• FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard
• Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003
• Free Software to Measure the Spatial Frequency Response (MTF) of Fingerprint Scanners
• FVC2006, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• FVC2004, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• FVC2002, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• FVC2000, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• An Introduction to Wavelets: FBI Fingerprint Compression
• NIST Visual Image Processing Group's Fingerprint Research

Handwriting

• Handschriften-Erkennungs-SYstem für Normalstifte (HESY) Signature Testing Device (works with normal pens)
• Handwriting Recognition Group
• The UNIPEN Project

Iris

• John Daugman's Webpage, Cambridge University, Computer Science Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
• The Iris Recognition Homepage

Voice/Speech

• Speech Research, (Perception Science Laboratory, University of California)

Databases

• European Language Resources Association's (ELRA)
• FVC2006, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• FVC2004, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• FVC2002, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• FVC2000, Fingerprint Verification Competition
• Linguistic Data Consortium (voice)
• M2VTS Multimodal Face and Voice Database
• NIST Standard Reference Data
• PEIPA, The Pilot European Image Processing Archive
• YOHO (voice)