The Biometric Standards Support add-on for VeriFinger allows developers to integrate the support for fingerprint template and image format standards and additional image formats into new and existing biometric systems based on the VeriFinger SDK.

The BSS add-on allows to integrate fingerprint template and image format standards support into VeriFinger-based biometric systems. These standards are supported:

• BioAPI 2.0 (ISO/IEC 1978-1:2006) (Framework and Biometric Service Providers for fingerprint identification engines)
• ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005 (Finger Minutiae Data)
• ISO/IEC 19794-4:2005 (Finger image data)
• ANSI/INCITS 378-2004 (Finger Minutiae Format for Data Interchange)
• ANSI/INCITS 381-2004 (Finger Image-Based Data Interchange Format)
• ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 (Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Scar Mark & Tattoo (SMT) Information)

The BSS add-on allows conversion between VeriFinger templates, ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005, ANSI/INCITS 378-2004 and ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 templates.

BSS add-on also allows to integrate image format support into applications based on VeriFinger SDK. The following image formats are supported:

• WSQ (Wavelet Scalar Quantization)
• NIST IHead
• JPEG 2000 with 1000 dpi Fingerprint Profile

The WSQ format allows to compress a fingerprint image up to 10-15 times. WSQ compression process is "lossy", meaning that the reconstructed image is not equal to the original (some information is lost). However, the WSQ algorithm was specially designed to minimize the loss of fingerprint information therefore the reconstructed image is as close as possible to the original.

The BSS Add-on for VeriFinger includes:

• Biometric standard support components for all mentioned standards
• Template conversion components for ISO/IEC 19794-2:2005, ANSI/INCITS 378-2004 and ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 fingerpint template standards
• WSQ, JPEG 2000 and IHead support components
• Documentation

The included components can be used from C/C++ and C# applications. The add-on supports platforms based on x86 processor architecture. Libraries for Windows and Linux operating systems are provided. .NET wrappers of Windows libraries are provided for .NET developers.

System requirements

The BSS add-on for VeriFinger runs on PCs with Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. The system requirements for the BSS add-on are the same as the system requirements for VeriFinger SDK.

System requirements for VeriFinger SDK

System requirements for VeriFinger Matching Server

• PC with x86 compatible CPU (2 GHz processor or better is recommended);
• UDP and TCP network support;
• MySQL or Oracle server (other DB servers require a custom support module to be developed by the integrator);
• Microsoft Windows specific:
  • Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
• Linux specific:
  • Linux 2.6 or newer;
  • GCC-4.0.x or newer;
  • pkg-config-0.21 or newer;
  • GNU Make 3.81 or newer;

System requirements for VeriFinger Matcher and Extractor components:

• PC with x86 compatible CPU (2 GHz processor or better is recommended);
• UDP and TCP network support (for network-based applications);
• Fingerprint scanner driver (users can use the fingerprint scanning component, included in VeriFinger SDK, or can obtain the driver from the scanner's manufacturer);
• Microsoft Windows specific:
  • Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista;
  • Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 (for .NET components);
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2005 or newer, or Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (for application development).
• Linux specific:
  • Linux 2.6 or newer;
  • GCC-4.0.x or newer;
  • pkg-config-0.21.x or newer;
  • GNU Make 3.81 or newer;
  • GTK+-2.10.x or newer libs and dev packages;
  • libtiff-3.8.x or newer libs and dev packages;