Evaluation Criteria and Evaluations for Biometric Authentication Systems

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Manfred Bromba
http://www.bromba.com/contacte.htm
Actual status: 2008-02-14
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Evaluation Criteria

National Physical Laboratory - England

Mansfield, A. J.; Wayman, J. L.
Best Practices in Testing and Reporting Performance of Biometric Devices
Version 2.01
August 2002
Internet: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/site/ast/biometrics/media/BestPractice.pdf
Comment: Focusses on all aspects of testing FAR, FER, and FRR. Version 2 is a greatly improved and extended version.

UK Government Biometrics Working Group - England

Biometric Device Protection Profile (BDPP)
Draft Issue 0.82
5 September 2001
Internet: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/site/ast/biometrics/media/bdpp082.pdf
Comment: Describes all kind of attacks on biometrics authentication systems

Use of Biometrics for Identification and Authentication - Advice on Product Selection
Issue 1.0
23 November 2001
Internet: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/site/ast/biometrics/media/BiometricsAdvice.pdf
Comment:

Common Criteria

U.S. Government Biometric Verification Mode Protection Profile for Medium Robustness Environments (MRE);
Version 1.0
November 2003
Internet: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/pp_vid1022-pp.pdf
Comment: Describes all kind of attacks on biometrics authentication systems

TeleTrusT - Germany

Laßmann, G. (Ed.)
Bewertungskriterien zur Vergleichbarkeit biometrischer Verfahren ("Kriterienkatalog");
Version 2.0
07/2002
Version 3.0
2006-08-18
Internet: http://www.teletrust.de/index.php?id=248
Comment: The most comprehensive catalog for all kind of evaluation criteria

Laßmann, G. (Ed.)
Generelle Evaluierungsverfahren für biometrische Systeme
Draft Version 1.8
2001-02-22
Internet: not available, contact TeleTrusT e.V.
Comment:

Electronic Warfare Associates - Canada

Biometric Technology Security Evaluation under the Common Criteria
Version 1.2
September 2001
Internet: http://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/documents/services/ccs/ccs_biometrics121.pdf
Comment:

CC Biometric Evaluation Methodology Working Group - United Kingdom

Common Criteria - Common Methodology for Information Technology Security Evaluation - Biometric Evaluation Methodology Supplement [BEM]
Version 1.0
August 2002
Internet: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/site/ast/biometrics/media/BEM_10.pdf
Comment:

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) - Germany

Munde, A.
Evaluation biometrischer Systeme
Internet: http://www.sit.fhg.de/smartcard-ws/WS_01/Beitrag_Munde.pdf (dead link)
Comment: Short description of BSI activities with respect to evaluation and certification; good introduction

Technical Evaluation Criteria for the Assessment and Classification of Biometric Systems
Draft version 0.5-1
2000-08-30
Internet: not available, contact Dr. Christoph Busch (Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung in Darmstadt)
Comment: needs revision

Technische Evaluierungskriterien zur Bewertung und Klassifizierung biometrischer Systeme
Entwurf Version 0.6
2000-09-14
Internet: not available, contact Dr. Christoph Busch (Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung in Darmstadt)
Comment: needs revision

International Biometric Group - USA

Comparative Biometric Testing - Official Test Plan
2002
Internet: http://www.ibgweb.com/reports/public/reports/Comparative_biometric_test_plan.htm (dead link)
Comment: Delivers examples of exact definitions for FAR, FER, and FRR

Evaluations

National Physical Laboratory - England

Biometric Product Testing Final Report
Issue 1.0
19 March 2001
Internet: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/site/ast/biometrics/media/BiometricTestReportpt1.pdf
Comment: Compares different biometric systems. Does not reflect the state-of-the-art.

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) - Germany

BioIS Study
Internet: withdrawn, contact M. Bromba
Comment: "first trial", based on technology demonstrators and prototypes rather than on products. Not to be used to compare different biometric features.

BioFace I & II Study
Version 2.1
June 2003
Internet: http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/BioFace/BioFaceIIBericht.pdf (German, 5.7 MB)
Internet: http://www.bsi.de/english/publications/BioFace/BioFaceIIReport.pdf (English, 6 MB)
Comment: Concentrates on limit cases

BioP I - Untersuchung der Leistungsfähigkeit von Gesichtserkennungssystemen zum geplanten Einsatz in Lichtbilddokumenten
Version 1.1
2004-04-07
Internet: http://www.bsi.de/literat/studien/biop/biopabschluss.pdf  (German, 1.6 MB)
Comment: Exciting, easy to read, modern methodology 

BioP I - An investigation into the performance of facial recognition systems relative to their planned use in photo identification documents
Version 1.1
2004-04-07
Internet: http://www.bsi.bund.de/english/publications/studies/BioPfinalreport.pdf  (English, 1.5 MB)
Comment: Exciting, easy to read, modern methodology 

BioP II - Untersuchung der Leistungsfähigkeit von biometrischen Verifikationssystemen
Version 2.0
2005-08-23
Internet: http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/biop/biopabschluss2.pdf  (German, 3.9 MB)
Comment: 

Evaluation of Fingerprint Recognition Technologies - BioFinger
Version 1.1
2004-08-06
Internet: http://www.bsi.de/english/publications/studies/BioFinger.pdf   (English, PDF 5.65 MB)
Internet: http://www.bsi.de/literat/studien/BioFinger/BioFinger_I_I.pdf  (German, PDF 2.8 MB)
Comment:

Bundeskriminalamt - Germany

Gesichtserkennung als Fahndungshilfsmittel "Fotofahndung" - Abschlussbericht
Februar 2007
Internet: http://www.bka.de/kriminalwissenschaften/fotofahndung/index.html (German, PDF 939 kB)
Comment: Shows the impressive advances of modern face recognition

Biometric Systems Lab (University of Bologna), U.S. National Biometric Test Center (San Jose State University), and Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory of Michigan State University.

FVC2002 (Second International Competition for Fingerprint Verification Algorithms)
Internet: http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2002/
Comment: Methodology only suitable for algorithm comparisons, not for real-life scenarios. 

FVC2004 (Third International Competition for Fingerprint Verification Algorithms)
Internet: http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2004/
Comment: Methodology only suitable for algorithm comparisons, not for real-life scenarios. 

FVC2006 (Fourth International Competition for Fingerprint Verification Algorithms)
Internet: http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2006/
Comment: Results available in Jan. 2007

National Institute of Standards (NIST) - USA

FRVT 2002 (Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002)
Internet: http://www.frvt.org/FERET/default.htm
Comment:

FpVTE 2003 (Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation 2003)
Internet: http://fpvte.nist.gov/
Comment:

The Myth of Goats: How many people have fingerprints that are hard to match? September 2005. NISTIR 7271 [892K].
Internet: http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.03/pact/pact.html
Comment: Interesting study with relation to failure-to-enroll rates (FER).

MINEX - Performance and Interoperability of the INCITS 378 Fingerprint Template
March 21, 2006
Internet: http://fingerprint.nist.gov/minex04/minex_report.pdf
Comment: Study about the feasibility of the standard "ISO/IEC 19794-2 Biometric Data Interchange Format - Finger minutiae data" with respect to cross-vendor interoperability.

FRVT 2006 (Face Recognition Vendor Test 2006) & ICE2006 (Iris Challenge Evaluation)
Internet: http://face.nist.gov/frvt/frvt2006/FRVT2006andICE2006LargeScaleReport.pdf
Comment: Shows significant improvements over FRVT 2002. Compares iris and face recognition in an FAR range where the differences are small.

MINEX II - An assessment of Match-on-Card technology (Performance of Fingerprint Match-on-Card Algorithms Phase II Report)
February 07, 2008
Internet: http://fingerprint.nist.gov/minexII/minex_report.pdf
Comment: 

UK Passport Service - United Kingdom

Biometrics Enrolment Trial
May 2005
Internet: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/UKPS_Biometrics_Enrolment_summary.pdf (dead link),
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/UKPS_Biometrics_Enrolment_Trial_Report.pdf (dead link)
Still available here: http://www.biometricscatalog.org/evaluation/default.asp
Comment: Results only valid for specific realization. No generalization possible, especially with respect to failure-to-enroll rates (FER)!

International Biometrics Group - USA

Independent Testing of Iris Recognition Technology
May 2005
Internet: http://www.biometricscatalog.org/evaluation/default.asp
Comment: "Explanation" for the surprisingly week results for iris in the "Biometrics Enrolment Trial".

Other private organizations

IRIS06 Draft Final Report
Version 0.4
March 2007
Internet: http://www.authenti-corp.com/iris06/report/
Comment: Evaluation of 3 iris recognition systems

Other link collections for evaluations

Biometrics Catalog - Evaluation Reports
Internet: http://www.biometricscatalog.org/evaluation/default.asp
Comment: Partially needs Javascript

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