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Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation Revision 1

Published

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, Craig I. Watson, Jennifer Stathakis, John M. Libert, Gregory Fiumara, John Grantham

Abstract

While contactless fingerprint capture devices stand to provide for many benefits, images from this nascent technology are sufficiently different than traditional contact-collected images thereby warranting the separation of these new contactless fingerprint images from legacy contact-collected images and systems operating on them. This Best Practices Recommendation defines voluntary (informative) changes to the ANSI/NIST standard to allow for the creation of contactless transactions that are not readily ingestible by existing systems, but based closely on ANSI/NIST so that minimal changes to the system can allow for processing. Furthermore, the transactions can include the original sensor data, in addition to the contact-compatible/interoperable image in the event that vendors improve their technologies and allow for the reprocessing of the data without recapturing.
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 500-334r1
Report Number
500-334r1
NIST Pub Series
Special Publication (NIST SP)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.500-334r1
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Keywords

Contactless fingerprints, Touchless fingerprints, Biometrics, Standards
Biometrics

Citation

Orandi, S. , Watson, C. , Stathakis, J. , Libert, J. , Fiumara, G. and Grantham, J. (2024), Contactless Fingerprint Capture and Data Interchange Best Practice Recommendation Revision 1, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.500-334r1, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=958267 (Accessed October 27, 2025)

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Created August 5, 2024
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