NIST Contactless Fingerprint (CFP)
Body of Knowledge (BoK)

What follows is what I colloquially refer to as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Contactless Fingerprint (CFP) Body of Knowledge (BoK), which is essential reading for thoughtful, sober organizations that want to take a reasoned, methodical approach to integrating contactless fingerprint into legacy contact systems.

All research, writing, and publication was performed by NIST. Aside from acting as an outside reviewer on a few of the documents, my contribution is simply aggregating these important related works into a single, simple reference list.

2016

• NISTIR 8158 Usability Testing of a Contactless Fingerprint Device: Part 1

• U.S. Patent 9,507,993 (method), Granted 11/2016, “Standard calibration target for contactless fingerprint scanners”

• U.S. Patent 9,349,033 (apparatus), Granted 5/2016, “Standard calibration target for contactless fingerprint scanners”

2018

• NISTIR 8210 Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge Prize Analysis

• NIST SP 500-305 Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

2019

• NISTIR 8257 Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge Enrollment Set Variability

• NIST SD 302 Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Capture Challenge

• NISTIR 8307 Interoperability Assessment 2019: Contactless-to-Contact Fingerprint Capture

2020

• NISTIR 8315 Evaluating the Operational Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery on Matcher Performance

2021

• NIST SP 500-334 Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation
  (superseded by NIST SP 500-334r1 in 2024)

• NISTIR 8392 Evaluating the Impact of Contactless Fingerprint Imagery Spatial Loss on Matcher Performance

2022

• NIST SP 500-336 Specification for Interoperability Testing of Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices, v1.0

• NIST Fingerprint Registration and Comparison Tool (NFRaCT)

2023

• NIST SP 500-339 Specification for Certification Testing of Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices, v1.0

• NIST SP 500-340 Guidance on Contactless Friction Ridge Image Compression, v1.0

• NISTIR 8488 Repeatability of Contactless and Contact Fingerprint Capture

2024

• NIST SP 500-334r1 Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation