SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Image Quality Measures and Sensor Fusion Methods
- Notice Date
- 8/5/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-02-894-2868
- Response Due
- 8/7/2002
- Point of Contact
- Sherri Miller, Purchasing Agent, Phone (301) 975-6320, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
sherri.miller@nist.gov
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to issue a purchase order on a sole source basis to Unicorn Systems, Inc, Pittsburgh, PA, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b). The objective of this requirement is to provide the following: Contractor will visit NIST and discuss image quality measures that correlate with biometric accuracy and discuss sensor fusion methods that are suitable for use with difference biometrics and provide reports. Dr. Casasent of Unicorn Systems, Inc. is uniquely qualified for this contract because of his previous experience in optical pattern recognition. He is an internationally recognized expert and has published over 600 papers in this field. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He is a Full Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is the George Westinghouse Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Optical Data Processing. His expertise qualifies him to provide evaluations of neural network and other pattern recognition algorithms. He originated and has organized the set of 6 to 11 annual SPIE conferences on Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision. He has chaired the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision conference for 16 years. He has also chaired and organized the Optical Pattern Recognition and Hybrid Image and Signal Processing SPIE conferences for 6 years. He is Past President of SPIE and was on the Board of Directors of SPIE for 6 years. He is a past member of two Defense Science Board Task Forces (on Image Recognition and on Automatic Target Recognition). He is past President of the Pittsburgh chapters of the IEEE-ED and the Optical Society of America. He is presently Faculty Advisor to Eta Kappa Nu among other such activities. His research interests include: distortion-invariant pattern recognition, neural networks, Gabor and wavelet transforms, and morphological image processing. The period of performance is date of award through September 30, 2002. The anticipated award date is on or about 5 days from the date of this notice. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. Interested persons may identify their intent and capability to respond to the requirement no later than the response date above. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. For information, call the POC identified below.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Vendor Location
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN00132233-W 20020807/020805213222 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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