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Is there any standard for developing alogrithms for biometrics verification?
What does some one has to take into consideration if willing to develop alogirthm?

once developed individual alogorithm does it requires any certifications Or verification from any organisation for commercial use?

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by thechas

Check out the links from the Biometrics consortium web page.

www.biometrics.org

While it down't look like there are any "official" standards at this time, they are running a testing center with the goal to minimize error rates.

As to considerations for the algorithm itself.
Your 2 main concerns are;
False positives
False negatives

Beyond that, you need to take into account the variabilities in alignment of the subject to the sensor.
For a fingerprint scanner, you want to allow for at least 5 degrees of rotation;
15% bady mass variation (swelling);
positioning errors (x-y) of 1/4" or so.

Some of these can be accounted for, or minimized in the hardware design.
But, you are designing a system, not just code.
The variations of the subject / user must be taken into account for a sucessful algorithm.

Chas

by thechas

Spent some time at the Biometrics.org site.
There is a page on specification activity, but you need to click past the opening page to get to it.
They claim a link to an FBI fingerprint comparison specification, but it didn't work for me.

There is a lot of development and standards work going on.
Both Intel, and sourceforge (sourceforge.net) have open projects for computer video recognition.

Chas

by mayurgoradia

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