Biometrical Standards Support add-on for VeriFinger SDK

Neurotechnology offers Biometrical Standards Support (BSS) add-on for VeriFinger SDK. The BSS add-on allows to integrate the support for fingerprint template and image format standards and additional image formats to existing biometric systems based on VeriFinger SDK.

Add-on description

The BSS add-on allows to integrate fingerprint template and image format standards support into VeriFinger-based biometrical systems. These standards are supported:

• BioAPI 2.0 (ISO/IEC 1978-1:2006) (Framework and Biometric Service Providers for fingerprint identification engines)
• ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005 (Finger Minutiae Data)
• ISO/IEC 19794-4:2005 (Finger image data)
• ANSI/INCITS 378-2004 (Finger Minutiae Format for Data Interchange)
• ANSI/INCITS 381-2004 (Finger Image-Based Data Interchange Format)
• ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 (Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Scar Mark & Tattoo (SMT) Information)

The BSS add-on allows conversion between VeriFinger templates, ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005, ANSI/INCITS 378-2004 and ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 templates.

BSS add-on also allows to integrate image format support into applications based on VeriFinger SDK. The following image formats are supported:

• WSQ (Wavelet Scalar Quantization)
• NIST IHead
• JPEG 2000 with 1000 dpi Fingerprint Profile

The WSQ format allows to compress a fingerprint image up to 10-15 times. WSQ compression process is "lossy", meaning that the reconstructed image is not equal to the original (some information is lost). However, the WSQ algorithm was specially designed to minimize the loss of fingerprint information therefore the reconstructed image is as close as possible to the original.

Add-on structure and supported platforms

The BSS Add-on for VeriFinger includes:

• Biometrical standard support components for all mentioned standards
• Template conversion components for ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005, ANSI/INCITS 378-2004 and ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 fingerpint template standards
• WSQ, JPEG 2000 and IHead support components
• Documentation

The included components can be used from C/C++ and C# applications. The add-on supports platforms based on x86 processor architecture. Libraries for Windows and Linux operating systems are provided. .NET wrappers of Windows libraries are provided for .NET developers.

System requirements

The BSS add-on for VeriFinger runs on PCs with Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. The system requirements for the BSS add-on are the same as the system requirements for VeriFinger SDK.

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