British Standards Institution

Sector: Governance & Resilience

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for the UK input to standardization of generic biometric technologies pertaining to human beings to support interoperability and data interchange among applications and systems. Generic human biometric standards include: common file frameworks; biometric application programming interfaces; biometric data interchange formats; related biometric profiles; application of evaluation criteria to biometric technologies; methodologies for performance testing and reporting and cross jurisdictional and societal aspects. Excluded is the work in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17 to apply biometric technologies to cards and personal identification. Excluded is the work in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 for biometric data protection techniques, biometric security testing, evaluations and evaluation methodologies.

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In Progress (13)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
Preliminary Work Item (PWI) on ISO/IEC 39794-12	Extensible biometric data interchange formats – Fingermark data Categories: Standardization. General rules \| Biology. Botany. Zoology \| Microbiology \| Metrology and measurement \| Testing \| Medical sciences and health care facilities. General Proposal begins : 2023-08-07	Proposal
PD CEN/TS 18139	Personal identification - European guide for biometric recognition applications based on ID documents (ERG) Categories: Unclassified documents Drafting begins : 2024-07-31	Drafting
PD CEN/TS 18099	Biometric data injection attack detection Categories: Approval begins :	Approval
ISO/IEC PWI TS 24358.2	Face-aware capture subsystem specifications Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules \| ICT \| Information technology \| Information technology applications \| Identification cards and related devices Proposal begins : 2023-09-19	Proposal
ISO/IEC PWI TS 21421.3	Information technology — Cross jurisdictional and societal aspects of implementation of biometric technologies — Biometrics and identity management for major incident response Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2024-04-05	Proposal
ISO/IEC PWI TS 21421.2	Information technology — Cross jurisdictional and societal aspects of implementation of biometric technologies — Biometrics and identity management for major incident response Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules \| ICT \| Information technology \| Information technology applications \| Identification cards and related devices Proposal begins : 2023-06-06	Proposal
ISO/IEC NP 29794-9	Information technology — Biometric sample quality — Part 9: Vascular image data Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2024-01-12	Proposal
ISO/IEC NP 25447	Face image profile for less constrained capture conditions Categories: Information management \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2024-10-01	Proposal
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 N 6930	Face-aware capture subsystem specifications Categories: Standardization. General rules \| Quality \| ICT \| Information technology \| Information technology. General \| Software \| Image technology \| Optical equipment \| Photography \| Graphic technology \| Reproduction equipment Proposal begins : 2019-06-05	Proposal
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 N 6929	Face image quality assessment Categories: Standardization. General rules \| Business \| Quality \| Quality. General \| ICT \| Information technology \| Image technology \| Optical equipment \| Photography \| Graphic technology \| Reproduction equipment Proposal begins : 2019-06-05	Proposal

Published (67)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/IEC TR 30125:2016	Information technology. Biometrics used with mobile devices Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2016-05-13	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 30110:2015	Information technology. Cross jurisdictional and societal aspects of implementation of biometric technologies. Biometrics and children Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2015-11-19	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29794-5:2010	Information technology. Biometric sample quality. Face image data Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2010-07-06	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29198:2013	Information technology. Biometrics. Characterization and measurement of difficulty for fingerprint databases for technology evaluation Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2013-12-19	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29196:2018	Information technology. Guidance for biometric enrolment Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2018-05-29	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29194:2015	Information Technology. Biometrics. Guide on designing accessible and inclusive biometric systems Categories: Ergonomics \| Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2015-05-29	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29189:2015	Information technology. Biometrics. Evaluation of examiner assisted biometric applications Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2015-07-31	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29156:2015	Information technology. Guidance for specifying performance requirements to meet security and usability needs in applications using biometrics Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2016-01-27	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 29144:2014	Information technology. Biometrics. The use of biometric technology in commercial Identity Management applications and processes Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2014-07-09	Published standard
PD ISO/IEC TR 24722:2015	Information technology. Biometrics. Multimodal and other multibiometric fusion Categories: Identification cards and related devices Published standard begins : 2016-01-04	Published standard

Withdrawn (70)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/IEC TS 20027:2015	Biometrics interoperability profiles. Best practices for slap tenprint captures Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2018-07-23	Withdrawn
PD ISO/IEC TR 29794-4:2010	Information technology. Biometric sample quality. Finger image data Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2017-10-13	Withdrawn
PD ISO/IEC TR 29196:2015	Guidance for biometric enrolment Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2018-05-29	Withdrawn
PD ISO/IEC TR 29195:2015	Traveller processes for biometric recognition in automated border Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2018-06-26	Withdrawn
PD ISO/IEC TR 24741:2007	Information technology. Biometrics tutorial Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2018-03-02	Withdrawn
PD ISO/IEC TR 24722:2007	Information technology. Biometrics. Multi-modal and other multibiometric fusion Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2016-01-04	Withdrawn
PD ISO/IEC TR 24714-1:2008	Information technology. Biometrics. Jurisdictional and societal considerations for commercial applications. General guidance Categories: Information technology. General \| Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2023-08-03	Withdrawn
BS ISO/IEC 30137-1:2019	Information technology. Use of biometrics in video surveillance systems. System design and specification Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2024-05-16	Withdrawn
BS ISO/IEC 30107-3:2017	Information technology. Biometric presentation attack detection. Testing and reporting Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2023-01-27	Withdrawn
BS ISO/IEC 30107-1:2016	Information technology. Biometric presentation attack detection. Framework Categories: Identification cards and related devices Withdrawn begins : 2023-08-22	Withdrawn

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Nominating organizations

Accenture UK
Biometrics Institute Ltd
Biometrics Working Group
British Security Industry Association
Callsign Inc.
Committee External Sec/Administrator
Committee Manager
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Deputy Chair
European Association for Biometrics
Gemalto
Home Ofifice Biometrics
Identity Assurance Systems Ltd
Identityforservices Ltd
Individual expert - Global Standards and public policy initiatives
Individual Expert - Human & machine face identification
iProov
Metropolitan Police
Morpho UK Limited
National Physical Laboratory
Post Office Ltd
UK Finance

Liaisons with other committees

Chair - IST/44/-/1
Chair - IST/44/-/3
Chair - IST/44/-/4
Chair - IST/44/-/5
Individual Capacity - Biometrics Expert
Individual capacity - Electrical Security Expert
Individual Capacity - Lecturer in Computer Science, Swansea University
Individual Capacity - mobile biometrics expert
Liaison - ICT/-
Liaison - ICT/-/1
Liaison - IST/33
Liaison - IST/33 to IST/44
Liaison - IST/37
Liaison - IST/44 to IST/17
Liaison - IST/44 to IST/41
Liaison - IST/44 to IST/70
Liaison - IST/44 to IST38
Liaison – ART/1

BSI roles

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Standards Development

IST/44 - Biometrics

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