UNE-EN 17054:2020

This European Standard establishes asystematic description of the concepts in thefield of biometrics pertaining to recognition ofhuman beings and reconciles variant terms inuse in pre-existing biometric standardsagainst the preferred terms, thereby clarifyingthe use of terms in this field.Excluded from the scope of this document areconcepts (represented by terms) frominformation technology, pattern recognition,biology, mathematics, etc. Biometrics usessuch fields of knowledge as a basis.In principle, mode specific terms are outsidethe scope of this European Standard.Words in bold are defined in this document.Words that are not in bold are to beunderstood in their natural language sense.The authority for natural language use ofterms in this document is the Concise OxfordEnglish Dictionary (COD), Thumb IndexEdition (tenth edition, revised, 2002). Wordsused in their natural language sense areconsidered out-of-scope for further definitionin this document.