BS ISO/IEC 29794-1:2016

This part of ISO/IEC29794 , for any or all biometric sample types as necessary, establishes the following:

• terms and definitions that are useful in the specification and use of quality metrics;

• purpose and interpretation of biometric quality scores;

• encoding of quality data fields in biometric data interchange formats;

• methods for developing biometric sample datasets for the purpose of quality score normalisation;

• format for exchange of quality algorithm results;

• methods for aggregation of quality scores.

The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO/IEC29794 :

• specification of minimum requirements for sample, module, or system quality scores;

• performance assessment of quality algorithms;

• standardization of quality algorithms.