3. Biometrics and Standards

5. ITU-T Technology Watch Report December 2009

13. Biometric recognition can be described as automated methods to accurately recognize individuals based on distinguishing physiological and/or behavioral traits. The report spotlights biometric recognition as a key form of authentication, one which is increasingly used in a wide range of applications made possible by advanced pattern recognition algorithms applied through powerful ICT.

16. ITU-T Technology Watch Reports are intended to provide an up-to-date assessment of promising new technologies in a format that is accessible to non-specialists, with a view to:

17. Identifying candidate technologies for standardization work within ITU.

18. Assessing their implications for the ITU Membership, especially developing countries.

19. Acknowledgements

21. Biometrics and Standards

22. I. Introduction

23. II. Possess, know, be – Authentication methods

24. III. Fingerprint, face, voice – Biometric traits
III.I Physiological traits
a) Fingerprint
b) Face
c) Iris patterns
d) DNA
III.II Behavioral traits
a) Voice print
b) Signature dynamics
c) Keystroke dynamics

25. IV. Capture, compare, decide – Biometric systems

26. V. Applications

27. VI. Security and privacy
a) Multimodal biometric systems
b) Template-on-token
c) Match-on-token
d) Data-hiding techniques
e) Cancelable biometrics

28. VII. Standards in biometrics
b) Biometric data interchange formats
c) Security
d) System properties
e) Interfaces
f) Vocabulary
g) Cross-jurisdictional and societal aspects

29. VIII. Conclusion

30. Glossary of acronyms

32. Notes, sources and further reading