PD ISO/IEC TR 29189:2015 PDF

1   Scope The purpose of this Technical Report is to identify and characterize those aspects of performance testing that are unique to examiner assisted biometric applications. An examiner assisted biometric system has the following characteristics:

— reliant on the interaction and skill of a human examiner for one or more stages of the complete biometric process, be it data capture, enrolment, template generation, or final decision;

— can incorporate identification functionality, verification functionality, or both;

— will use a combination of the examiner ’s input and the functionality of the biometric algorithm to execute the complete biometric process;

— will likely have inbuilt examination toolsets to assist the human examiner when enrolling biometric samples or when comparing the match results provided by the biometric algorithm.

Although there is a wide variation in the use of the term “ examiner ” in the context of an “ examiner assisted biometric system”, as defined in this Technical Report, an “ examiner ” typically has the following characteristics: ...