scope:

NEN-ISO/IEC 29794-1, for any or all biometric sample types as necessary, establishes the following: - terms and definitions that are useful in the specification and use of quality metrics; - purpose and interpretation of biometric quality scores; - encoding of quality data fields in biometric data interchange formats; - methods for developing biometric sample datasets for the purpose of quality score normalisation; - format for exchange of quality algorithm results; - methods for aggregation of quality scores. The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO/IEC 29794: - specification of minimum requirements for sample, module, or system quality scores; - performance assessment of quality algorithms; - standardization of quality algorithms.