Glossary
Name | Description |
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binary data | Each set of binary data (photographs, dactyloscopic data, identification documents, scanned documents, DNA profiles) attached to a SIS alert. |
Biographic data | Means the alphanumeric data stored in the EES, concerning the travel document data and/or the identity data. |
biographic matching errors | A biographic matching error can occur in the following cases: |
Biometric data | ‘biometric data’ means fingerprint data or facial images or both. |
biometric false acceptance | A biometric false acceptance means that the MID falsely declared a match towards the biometric template of another person. |
biometric false rejection | A biometric false rejection means that the MID falsely declared that there is no match with another comparable biometric template of the same person. |
Biometric identification | The identification of third-country nationals using biometric data, namely fingerprint data and facial image. It is a mean of identifying or confirming the identity of the third-country national by the measurement of the person's biometric characteristics. |
biometric matching errors | The MID algorithm might lead to matching errors related to biometric data (biometric matching errors). Biometric matching errors can concern a biometric false acceptance or a biometric false rejection. |
Biometric template | A mathematical representation obtained by feature extraction from biometric data limited to the characteristics necessary to perform identifications and verifications. |
Biometric update | An update of the biometric data is necessary where, after a verification process, it is discovered that the new biometric data submitted for verification has better quality, or current one is not enough / has insufficient quality, than the one in the EES (facial image or fingerprint set), or that missing biometric data can now be captured (e.g. temporary impossibility for providing fingerprints). |