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ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard: Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, and Other Biometric Information

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Biometric data interchange format standard; Interoperability standard

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Biometric data interchange format standards, such as the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard [12], are focused upon the exchange of biometric data. This includes representation of a biometric characteristic such as a fingerprint image, a voice signal, or an electropherogram (for DNA) as well as metadata. The associated metadata describe the circumstances associated with the biometric data capture (such a location of capture), the data characteristics (such as storage format), and information about the subject (such as whether the person is alive or is an unidentified deceased).

A biometric data interchange standard does not specify the use of the transmitted data by the receiving organization or the data storage structure used by the sending or receiving organization. Its purpose is solely to establish a common means of exchanging information – thereby facilitating interoperabilityacross systems offered by...

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  10. National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM). It is available at: http://medical.nema.org/standard.html

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  12. National Institute of Standards and Technology, American national standard for information systems – Data format for the interchange of fingerprint, facial, & other biometric information. It is available at: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ansi{_}standard.cfm

  13. F. Podio, D. Yaga, C.J. McGinnis (eds.), Conformance testing methodology for ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011, data format for the interchange of fingerprint, facial & other biometric information (release 1.0), NIST Special Publication 500–295, Aug 2012

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  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    Brad Wing

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil K. Jain

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Wing, B. (2015). ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard: Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, and Other Biometric Information. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_9045

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