Biometric Specifications
The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division actively participates in close partnership with other U.S. government agencies and U.S. industry to help establish formal national and international biometric standards development bodies as the best environments to support deployment of standards-based solutions and to accelerate the development of the consensus standards. The following links lead to various biometric standards Web sites or publications that may be of interest to our users.
- Examination of Downsampling Strategies for Converting 1000 ppi Fingerprint Imagery to 500 ppi
- Examination of the Impact of Fingerprint Spatial Area Loss on Matcher Performance in Various Mobile Identification Scenarios – March 2014
- A Practical Guide for Palm Print Capture – Approved Jul 13, 2015
- Guidelines for Capturing Palm Prints and Supplementals
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Fingerprint Standard
- ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Errata document
- Latent AFIS Interoperability
- Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification Version 3.1 – Approved October 10, 2010
- Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Image Quality Specifications for Single Finger Capture Devices
- National Science and Technology Counsel (NSTC) Subcommittee on Biometrics, National Biometrics Challenge – September 2011
- International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
- INCITS Technical Committee M1 – Biometrics
- American National Standards developed by INCITS M1
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) Subcommittee 37 (SC 37) – Biometrics - Published International Standards Developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 – Biometrics.
- Registry of USG Recommended Biometric Standards Version 1.0 – Approved June 5, 2008
- Mobile ID Work Group Activities
- Type 2 record fields – Updated January 30, 2012