Introduction

(or BIT for short) is a website for biometric database sharing and algorithm evaluation. Our mission is to facilitate biometrics research and development by providing quality public services to biometric researchers. You are welcome to register an account in BIT so that you can download publicly available iris, face, fingerprint, palmprint, multi-spectral palm and handwriting databases and submit your algorithms online for third-part testing and certification free of charge. The test mode of BIT is self-assistance so you can choose any time to submit algorithm and select any sequestered database to test your algorithm. And you can also determine to publish your testing results or not. Since BIT is technically supported by IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition) Technical Committee on Biometrics (IAPR TC4) and ABC (Asian Biometrics Consortium) Committee on Testing and Standards (ACTS), the testing results of your algorithms are certificated by IAPR TC4 and ACTS. In addition, your algorithm may be intelligently diagnosed based on its performance metrics and suggestions on possible improvements may be returned to you in the future development of BIT.