The role of standards in accessible biometrics
Marek Rejman-Greene
Slide 2
Preview
- Why standards?
- The standards process
- Example of biometric standards
- Report on privacy, health and safety and accessibility
- Accessibility
- draft taxonomy of issues and design principles
- draft taxonomy of issues and design principles
Slide 3
Why develop standards?
- For the operator
- Independence from reliance on a single supplier
- Simplification of design
- Improved likelihood of interoperability
- For the supplier
- Industry-agreed interfaces
- Informed route to market
- For the end user
- Best practices in applying new technologies
Slide 4
Types of standard
- Technology
- Interfaces and protocols
- Processes and quality
- BS7799
- Managing design
- BS7000
- Technical Report
- Review of knowledge and best practice
- Precursor to work leading to a standard
Slide 5
Biometric Standards - origins
- Industry consortia
- BioAPI Consortium
- Biometric Working Group (Testing)
- Sector needs
- ICAO -> ISO -> new committee SC37
- European standards
- CEN/ISSS Focus Group
- European Biometrics Forum Special Interest Group
- National standards bodies
- ANSI (USA), standard for biometrics in finance
- Suppliers
- Image standards for: finger spectral pattern, hand geometry
Slide 6
Slide 7
Slide 8
Biometrics standards in summary
- SC37
- WG1: what we mean
- WG2: transfer of biometric data in a system
- WG3: encoding biometric data in an interoperable way
- WG4: selecting the right options in the standards for a specific application, e.g. access control, Seafarer's ID
- WG5: testing that systems will perform
- WG6: taking care of the legal and societal aspects
- SC27
- Ensuring that systems are secure
- TC68
- Management of biometric systems in financial applications
Slide 9
Appearing this summer …
- 19784-1 BioAPI specification
- 19785-1 CBEFF exchange format specification
- 19785-2 CBEFF - operation of Registration Authority
- Data interchange formats
19794-2: Finger Minutiae
19794-4: Finger Image
19794-5: Face Image
19794-6: Iris image
Slide 10
Accessibility
- Technical Report WD of 24714
- 'Cross-Jurisdictional and Societal Aspects of Implementations of Biometric Technologies'
- Privacy, Health and Safety, Accessibility
- Commercial applications
- Testing
- Image standards, CBEFF, BioAPI
Slide 10
Taxonomy of accessibility issues
- Absent physical body parts or behavioural features
- Unusable physical body parts or behavioural features
- Insufficiently consistent presentation of biometric feature
- Accelerated drift in physical or behavioural features
- Difficulty in access to biometric reader
- Inability to understand or follow the instructions
- Psychological conditions preventing correct operation
- Conditions resulting in disproportionate use of resources
Slide 12
Design principles
- Maximise usage, minimise discomfort.
- Needs of disabled subjects to be considered from the start of design
- Thoroughly test before deployment
- Wherever practicable and feasible,
offer a choice of biometric systems, not disadvantaging the disabled
offer an alternative which does not result in an inferior level of service
offer to repeat registration if problems recur
- Adequate training for subjects with a disability
- Staff trained to work with disabled subjects
- System should not store details of a subject's disabilities without consent
- The rights to privacy of a disabled subject should be respected
Slide 13
Review
- Why standards?
- The standards process
- Example of biometric standards
- Report on privacy, health and safety and accessibility
- Accessibility
- draft taxonomy of issues and design principles
| Previous | Contents |