The US National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) is an agency of the Department of Commerce established by Congress "to assist industry in the development of technology". The Institute's Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) contributes toward that goal through cooperation with industry with a focus on data, test methods, measurements, and standards. With regard to recognition systems, NIST is interested in the evaluations of applications which (1) have broad user applicability in a specific domain of application, (2) move specific evaluation criteria which can be developed and are useful to both users and system developers, and (3) move a large number of system developers willing to participate in the evaluations at their own expense.
Stan Janet of the CSL's Image Recognition Group will coordinate and perform UNIPEN scoring. This will be done using software written for recognition system evaluation and utilized internally by the IRS and in two OCR conferences for the Bureau of the Census.
Stan Janet National Institute of Standards and Technology Bldg. 225 Rm. A-216 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Phone: +1 (301) 975-2916 Fax: +1 (301) 840-1357 Email: stan@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
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