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BS ISO/IEC 19795-1:2021

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Information technology. Biometric performance testing and reporting – Principles and framework

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BSI 2021 88
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This document:

  1. establishes general principles for testing the performance of biometrics systems in terms of error rates and throughput rates for purposes including measurement of performance, prediction of performance, comparison of performance, and verifying conformance with specified performance requirements;

  2. specifies performance metrics for biometric systems;

  3. specifies requirements on the recording of test data and reporting of test results; and

  4. specifies requirements on test protocols in order to:

    1. reduce bias due to inappropriate data collection or analytic procedures;

    2. help achieve the best estimate of field performance for the expended effort;

    3. improve understanding of the limits of applicability of the test results.

This document is applicable to empirical performance testing of biometric systems and algorithms through analysis of the comparison scores and decisions output by the system, without requiring detailed knowledge of the system’s algorithms or of the underlying distribution of biometric characteristics in the population of interest.

Not within the scope of this document is the measurement of error and throughput rates for people deliberately trying to subvert the intended operation of the biometric system (e.g. by presentation attacks).

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
2 National foreword
8 Foreword
9 Introduction
11 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
15 4 Abbreviated terms
16 5 Conformance
6 General biometric system
6.1 Conceptual representation of general biometric system
17 6.2 Conceptual components of a general biometric system
6.2.1 Data capture subsystem
6.2.2 Transmission subsystem
6.2.3 Signal processing subsystem
18 6.2.4 Data storage subsystem
6.2.5 Comparison subsystem
6.2.6 Decision subsystem
19 6.2.7 Administration subsystem
6.2.8 Interface to external application
6.3 Functions of general biometric system
6.3.1 Enrolment
20 6.3.2 Verification of a positive biometric claim
21 6.3.3 Identification
6.4 Enrolment, verification and identification transactions
22 6.5 Performance measures
6.5.1 Error rates
6.5.2 Throughput rates
23 6.5.3 Types of performance testing
7 Planning the evaluation
7.1 General
24 7.2 Determine information about the system
25 7.3 Controlling factors that influence performance
26 7.4 Test subject selection
27 7.5 Test size
7.5.1 General
7.5.2 Collecting multiple recognition transactions per test subject per system
28 7.5.3 Requirements on test size
7.6 Multiple tests
29 8 Data collection
8.1 Avoidance of data collection errors
8.2 Data and details collected
30 8.3 Enrolments
8.3.1 Enrolment transactions
31 8.3.2 Enrolment conditions
8.3.3 Enrolment failures and presentation errors
32 8.4 One-to-one comparison trials
8.4.1 General
8.4.2 Collection conditions
8.4.3 Frequency of use
33 8.4.4 Systems performing optimization based on enrolled references
8.4.5 Systems performing reference adaptation
8.4.6 Processes for data entry errors and system misuse
8.4.7 Failures to acquire
8.4.8 Adding test data to the corpus
8.4.9 Online comparison trials
34 8.4.10 Offline comparison trials
35 8.4.11 Offline non-mated comparison trials when references are dependent
8.4.12 Offline non-mated comparison trials based on comparison of references
8.4.13 Use of samples from multi-capture comparison transactions
36 8.5 Identification trials
8.5.1 General
8.5.2 Identification testing with non-enrolled test subjects
8.5.3 Use of jack-knife approach for identification testing
9 Analyses
9.1 General
37 9.2 Performance of biometric enrolment
9.2.1 Failure-to-enrol rate
9.2.2 Enrolment transaction duration
38 9.3 Performance of biometric acquisition
9.3.1 Failure-to-acquire rate
9.3.2 Acquisition process duration
9.3.3 Other aspects of acquisition performance
39 9.4 One-to-one comparison performance
9.4.1 False non-match rate
9.4.2 False match rate
40 9.5 Verification system performance metrics
9.5.1 General
9.5.2 False reject rate
41 9.5.3 False accept rate
9.5.4 Verification transaction duration
9.5.5 Generalized false reject rate and generalized false accept rate
42 9.6 Identification system performance metrics
9.6.1 General
43 9.6.2 False-negative identification rate
9.6.3 False-positive identification rate
44 9.6.4 Generalized false-negative identification rate and generalized false-positive identification rate
9.6.5 Selectivity
9.6.6 Closed-set test of identification performance
45 9.6.7 Estimation of identification error rates from one-to-one comparison results
9.6.8 Predicting identification error rates in larger populations
46 9.7 Analysis of performance across controlled experimental factors
9.7.1 Longitudinal analyses
9.7.2 Pairwise analyses
9.8 Detection error trade-off
47 9.9 Transaction durations
9.10 Computational workload
48 9.11 Uncertainty of estimates
49 10 Graphical presentation of results
10.1 Score distributions
10.1.1 General
10.1.2 Boxplots
10.2 Error rate vs threshold plot
50 10.3 DET plot
52 10.4 CMC plot / FNIR over rank plot
54 10.5 FNIR over number of enrolees plot
55 10.6 Heat maps
56 11 Record keeping
57 12 Reporting performance results
12.1 Reporting test details
58 12.2 Summary statistics
12.3 Reporting enrolment performance
12.4 Reporting acquisition performance
59 12.5 Reporting one-to-one comparison performance
12.6 Reporting verification system performance
12.7 Reporting identification system performance
60 12.8 Reporting performance across factors
62 Annex A (informative) Differences between evaluation types
63 Annex B (Informative) Test size and random uncertainty
71 Annex C (informative) Factors influencing performance
76 Annex D (Informative) Pre-selection algorithm performance
78 Annex E (informative) Identification performance as a function of database size
79 Annex F (informative) Algorithms for generating DET and CMC
82 Annex G (informative) DET properties and interpretation
86 Bibliography
BS ISO/IEC 19795-1:2021
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