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NIST/ITL CSD Conformance Test Architectures (CTA) and Test Suites (CTS) for Biometric Data Interchange Formats

NIST/ITL Computer Security Division (CSD) supports the development of national and international biometric standards and promotes conformity assessment through:  

  • Participation in the development of biometric standards
  • Sponsorship of conformance testing methodology standard projects
  • Development of associated conformance test architectures and test suites
  • Leadership in national and international standards development bodies

Need for Conformance Testing

Conformance testing captures the technical description of a standard and measures whether an implementation faithfully implements the standard. Read more.

Software Disclaimer

NIST/ITL CSD CTA/CTS Software Disclaimer

Software Requirements

The CTAs and CTSs run under Microsoft® Windows® (XP, Vista, 7) and the .NET 4.0 Framework.

Sponsor

The CTA/CTS work is sponsored in part by the Department of Homeland Security/US-VISIT Program.

Contact

Send comments/errors on the tool, sample data and documentation to csdbiomcta@nist.gov

CTA and CTS for ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007

April 2011

The CTA/CTS Beta 0.4 is designed to test implementations of selected Record Types of ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007 (AN2007). The selected records supported by the CTA/CTS are: 

  • Type 1, Transaction Information Record
  • Type 4, High-resolution grayscale fingerprint image
  • Type 10, Facial and SMT image
  • Type 13, Variable-resolution latent image
  • Type 14, Variable-resolution fingerprint image
  • Type 17, Iris image

Software Downloads

The CTA/CTS Beta 0.4 software contains everything needed to start testing implementations of AN2007. Read the instructions contained in the associated documentation

Installers: 

Source Code:

Documentation

CTA and CTSs for Biometric Data Interchange Formats Developed in INCITS M1 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37

CTA Beta Implementation 2.0

CTA Beta 2.0 supports CTSs for testing implementations of biometric data interchange data formats and the three components of Biometric Information Records (BIRs) conforming to Common Biometric Exchange Framework Format standards. CTA Beta 2.0 incorporates features designed to improve the confidence and reliability of test results and the usability of the test tools.

Software Downloads

To run any of the CTSs below, both a CTS and the CTA are needed.

NIST/ITL CSD CTA Beta 2.0 - Installer:

Conformance Test Suites

 

Source Code:

Sample Data:

Documentation:

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