The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division actively participates in close partnership with other U.S. government agencies and U.S. industry to help establish formal national and international biometric standards development bodies as the best environments to support deployment of standards-based solutions and to accelerate the development of the consensus standards.  The following links lead to various biometric standards Web sites or publications that may be of interest to our users.

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• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007 Fingerprint Standard
• Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification
• Profile for 1000ppi Fingerprint Compression, Version 1.1
• Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Image Quality Specifications for Single Finger Capture Devices
• National Science and Technology Counsel (NSTC) Subcommittee on Biometrics, National Biometrics Challenge
• International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
• INCITS Technical Committee M1 – Biometrics
• American National Standards developed by INCITS M1
  These standards are available (for a fee) from Techstreet.com and ANSI's eStandards Store
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) Subcommittee 37 (SC 37) – Biometrics
• Published International Standards Developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 – Biometrics.
  These standards are available (for a fee) from Techstreet.com and ANSI's eStandards Store