DEFINATION of BIO METRICS — BIO METRICS — USB 3.0
USB 3.0: DEFINATION of BIO METRICS

Saturday, January 9, 2010

DEFINATION of BIO METRICS

 Biometrics Authentication
Person authentication or simply authentication is a task of confirming or denying a person’s claimed identity. Biometrics is a measurement using a person’s behavioural or physiological characteristics. Examples of these characteristics are fingerprints, face, voice and signature. Biometric authentication is a task of confirming or denying a person’s claimed identity using his behavioural or physiological characteristics.
 Biometrics, Biometric or Biometry
Biometry refers to a much broader field involving application from statistics to biology and medicine. Biometrics is a noun and biometric is an adjective.
Note the distinction between the terms biometrics and biometry. Biometry refers to a much broader field involving application from statistics to biology and medicine. Biometrics is a noun and biometric is an adjective.
 Authentication versus Identification
According to [Jain, 1999], associating an identity with an individual is called personal identification. This problem can be categorised into: (i) authentication and (ii) identification. Authentication refers to the problem of confirming or denying a person’s claimed identity while identification refers to the problem of establishing a subject’s identity. The differences between identification and authentication can be summarised in Table A.1.



Table A.1 Identification versus authentication

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