BS ISO/IEC 19795-1:2006 - Page 2

BS ISO/IEC 19795-1:2006 provides a framework for developing and describing performance tests of biometric technologies, to help achieve the best estimate of performance of a technology and avoid bias due to inappropriate data collection or analysis.

It addresses specific philosophies and principles that can be applied over a broad range of test conditions. This standard is essential for testing laboratories concerned with the evaluation of biometric technologies, and is important to all those vendors whose products may be involved with such evaluation.

This international standard:

• establishes general principles for testing the performance of biometric systems in terms of error rates and throughput rates for purposes including prediction of performance, comparison of performance, and verifying compliance with specified performance requirements
• specifies performance metrics for biometric system
• specifies requirements on test methods, recording of data and reporting of results
• provides a framework for developing and describing test protocols, to help avoid bias due to inappropriate data collection or analytic procedures, to help achieve the best estimate of field performance for the expended effort and to improve understanding of the limits of applicability of the test results.

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