Reaffirmed 2024

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 8) which is identical with ISO/IEC 19794-8 : 2011 ‘Information Technology - Biometric data interchange formats - Part 8: Finger pattern skeletal data’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) jointly was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendations of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee and approval of the Electronics and Information Technology Division Council.

This standard is one of the series of standards on Information technology -Biometric data interchange formats.Other parts in this series are:

Part 1 Framework (Under Print)

Part 2 Finger minutiae data (Under Print)

Part 3 Finger pattern spectral data (Under Print)

Part 4 Finger image data (Under Print)

Part 5 Face image data (Under Print)

Part 6 Iris Image data (Under Print)

Part 7 Signature/Sign time series data (Under Print)

Part 9 Vascular Image Data (Under Print)

Part 10 Hand geometry silhouette data (Under Print)

Part 11 Signature/Sign Processed Dynamic Data (Under Print)

Part 14 DNA data (Under Print)

The text of the ISO/IEC standard has been approved as suitable for publication as Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.