Biometrics : standards
Warning : now, I'm lazy, and this page is not up to date...
Biometric standard bodies
- At US level, this is the INCITS M1 (ANSI) group.
- At international level, this is the ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC37 Biometrics group.
The BioAPI (Biometric Application Programming Interface) Consortium published their rules as an ISO standard in 2005.
| Purpose | Group | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vocabulary | WG 1 | Biometric Vocabulary | Get the words right |
| Interfaces | WG 2 | Interfaces | Get equipment talk to each other |
| Images | WG 3 | Interchange Formats | Get algorithms to understand each other |
| Profiles | WG 4 | Biometric Profiles | Make it fit the purpose |
| Testing | WG 5 | Biometric Testing and Reporting | Check it works |
| People | WG 6 | Cross-Jurisdictional and Societal Issues | Make it acceptable |
Biometric associations
- IBIA International Biometrics & Identification Association.
- FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance (formed in July 2012).
- OASIS Biometrics Technical Committee.
Biometrics : list of standards
! Below, situation as of 2007 !
I only listed here the "sensor level" standards, and not the application level standards. Standards to check compliance also exist.
International standards
Approved or FDIS level (=just before approval) (July 2007) :
- ISO/IEC 19794-1, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 1 : Framework
- ISO/IEC 19794-2, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 2 : Finger Minutiae Data
- ISO/IEC 19794-3, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 3 : Finger Pattern Spectral Data
- ISO/IEC 19794-4, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 4 : Finger Image Data
- ISO/IEC 19794-5, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 5 : Face Image Data
- ISO/IEC 19794-6, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 6 : Iris Image Data
- ISO/IEC 19794-7, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 7 : Signature/sign time series data
- ISO/IEC 19794-8, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 8 : Finger pattern skeletal data
- ISO/IEC 19794-9, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 9 : Vascular image data
- ISO/IEC 19794-10, Information Technology - Biometric Data Interchange Format - Part 10 : Hand geometry silhouette data
- ISO/IEC 19795-1, Information Technology - Biometric Performance Testing & Reporting - Part 1 : Principals & Framework
- ISO/IEC 19795-2, Information Technology - Biometric Performance Testing & Reporting - Part 2 : testing methodologies for technology and scenario evaluation
- ISO/IEC 19784-1, Information technology - Biometric Application Programming Interface - Part 1 : BioAPI Specification (=2.0)
- ISO/IEC 19784-2, Information technology - Biometric Application Programming Interface - Part 2 : Biometric Archive Function Provider Interface (=2.0)
- ISO/IEC 19785-1, Information technology - Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) - Part 1 : Data Element Specification
- ISO/IEC 19785-2, Information technology - Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) - Part 2 : Procedures for the Operation of the Biometrics Registration Authority
- ISO/IEC 24709-1, Information technology - Conformance testing for the biometric application programming interface (BioAPI) - Part 1 : Methods and procedures
- ISO/IEC 24709-2, Information technology - Conformance testing for the biometric application programming interface (BioAPI) - Part 2 : Test assertions for biometric service providers
- ISO/IEC 24722 : 2007 Information technology -- Biometrics-- Multimodal and other multibiometric fusion
US standards
Which are, most of the time, proposed as starting documents for ISO standards :
- ANSI INCITS 381-2004 Finger Image-Based Data Interchange Format
- ANSI INCITS 378-2004 Finger minutia Data Interchange Format
- ANSI INCITS 377-2004 Finger pattern Data Interchange Format
- ANSI INCITS 385-2004 Face Recognition Format for Data Interchange
- ANSI INCITS 396-2005 Hand Geometry Interchange Format
- ANSI INCITS 395-2005 Signature/Sign Data Interchange Format
- ANSI INCITS 379-2004 Iris Image Interchange Format
- ANSI INCITS 422-2007 Application Profile for Commercial Biometric Physical Access Control
For fingerprints, there is the infamous FBI Appendix F Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification 1999 that is defining the minimum resolution, 500 dpi (dot per inch), which is 50.8 microns.