CSA Preface
Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the SCC Mirror Committee (SMC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC.
For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as CSA ISO/IEC 39794-6 throughout.
The International Standard was reviewed by the CSA TCIT under the jurisdiction of the CSA Strategic Steering Committee on Information and Communications Technology and deemed acceptable for use in Canada. This Standard has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group.
Scope
This document specifies:
— generic extensible data interchange formats for the representation of iris image data: a tagged binary data format based on an extensible specification in ASN.1 and a textual data format based on an XML schema definition that are both capable of holding the same information,
— examples of data record contents,
— application specific requirements, recommendations, and best practices in data acquisition, and
— conformance test assertions and conformance test procedures applicable to this document.
The iris image information is stored as:
— an array of intensity values optionally compressed with ISO/IEC 15948 or ISO/IEC 15444-1, or
— an array of intensity values optionally compressed with ISO/IEC 15948 or ISO/IEC 15444-1 that can be cropped around the iris, with the iris at the centre, and which can incorporate region-of-interest masking of non-iris regions.
This document also specifies elements of conformance testing methodology, test assertions, and test procedures, as applicable to this document.
It establishes:
— test assertions pertaining to the structure of the iris image data format, as specified in Clauses 6, 7, 8 and 9 of this document,
— test assertions pertaining to internal consistency by checking the types of values that may be contained within each field, and
— semantic test assertions.
The conformance testing methodology specified in this document does not establish:
— tests of other characteristics of biometric products or other types of testing of biometric products (e.g. acceptance, performance, robustness, security), or
— tests of conformance of systems that do not produce data records conforming to the requirements of this document.
This document does not establish:
— requirements on the optical specifications of cameras, or
— requirements on photometric properties of iris images, or
— requirements on enrolment processes, workflow and use of iris equipment.
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