How is SlapSeg04 related to NISTs role under the PATRIOT Act?
SlapSeg04 will serve as part of NIST’s statutory mandate under section 403c of the USA PATRIOT Act to certify those biometric technologies that may be used in U.S. VISIT. The NIST WSQ code (with minor modification) requires almost 1.7 seconds to uncompress a slap image on a 1GHz CPU while [a commercial vendor] WSQ library requires 0.4 seconds. Although we would like to use NIST WSQ code, this time difference cannot be disregarded if the total processing time is one of SlapSeg04 evaluation. I understand that SlapSeg04 does not intend to evaluate WSQ performance. Is it possible for you to uncompress the test images and to feed uncompressed images to Segmentator? This preparation (WSQ uncompression) will shorten the total evaluation time because all participants can save WSQ uncompression time.
