What is PD CEN/TS 17661 about?
PD CEN/TS 17661 consolidates information relating to successful and high-quality biometric enrolment processes of facial and fingerprint systems while indicating risk factors and providing appropriate mitigations. This information supports decisions regarding procurement, design, deployment and operation of these biometric systems.
PD CEN/TS 17661 provides guidance on:
- Capturing of facial images to be used as reference images in identity and secure documents
- Capturing of fingerprint images to be used as reference images in identity and secure documents
- Data quality maintenance for biometric reference data
- Data authenticity maintenance for biometric reference data
PD CEN/TS 17661 addresses the following aspects which are specific for biometric reference data capturing:
- Biometric data quality and interoperability ensurance
- Data authenticity ensurance
- Morphing and other presentation attack detection as well as other unauthorized changes
- Accessibility and usability
- Privacy and data protection
- Optimal enrolment design
PD CEN/TS 17661 consolidates the role of the enrolment process in a biometric system and differentiates the enrolment from the authentication while mentioning key factors of the enrolment process that are feature independent.
Interests of the existing stakeholders are broken down and provide insight on different views of the enrolment. In addition, organisational enrolment approaches are covered.
Note:
The following aspects are out of scope:
- IT security
- data capturing for verification purposes, e.g., in ABC gates
- capturing biometric data for enrolment in other systems different from data enrolment for integration in secure MRTD, like entry/exit systems.
PD CEN/TS 17661 is not concerned with IT requirements or the capturing of biometric data for inspection, identification or verification purposes without the required step of creating an identity document using the captured data.
Who is PD CEN/TS 17661 for?
PD CEN/TS 17661 on personal identification is useful for:
- Airways traveller
- Airways company
- Biometric server
- IT sector/department
Why should you use PD CEN/TS 17661?
The enhanced use of new technologies for identity and document inspection means that precise criteria are set out for the enrolment and inspection processes. The enrolment process for biometric identifiers is crucial in order to guarantee a successful verification at document inspection. PD CEN/TS 17661 presents guidelines for the enrolment of an enrolee’s biometric face and fingerprint characteristics, which can be used for identity documents.
PD CEN/TS 17661 helps you in case of a doubt in verification of the facial or the fingerprint image.
In order to achieve a successful verification for enrolment of biometric data, PD CEN/TS 17661 provides guidelines to assist you to achieve the best quality of biometric enrolment to create identity documents with high-quality facial images integrated within the document and stored on the chip in combination with high-quality fingerprint images.
PD CEN/TS 17661 also helps you to prevent identity fraud by ensuring the integrity of the enrolment process and reducing false and increasing true matching of facial and fingerprint images. This will help you in improving biometric systems.
In short, PD CEN/TS 17661 aims to compile best practices in capturing facial and fingerprint images and to improve the biometric samples at the point of capture from the enrolee.