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DOC: M1/05-0724

Date: October 18, 2005

Reply to: Creed Jones

Phone: (253)591-8868 / (206) 281-2943

Email: creed.jones@morpho.com

 

 

INCITS M1 (Biometrics) Technical Committee

M1.3 Task Group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats

List of Defined CBEFF Format Type codes

M1 Standing Document SD2

 

Revision History

Revision

Date

M1 Document #

Revised by

Comments

 1

11-Mar-2003

 M1/03-0104

 Creed Jones, M1.1 chair

Created; revised in Mar 11, 2003 AHGBDIF mtg: aligned types with order of proposed ISO multipart standard; referred to standing document

 2

11-Mar-2004

 M1/04-0136

 Creed Jones, M1.3 chair

Added Signature/Sign and Hand Geometry formats; updated document numbers

 3

 28-Apr-2004

 M1/04-0273

 Creed Jones, M1.3 chair

Removed M1 doc numbers for formats that have reached public review status; added extended data code for hand geometry format

 4

 3-May-2004

 M1/04-0390

 Creed Jones, M1.3 chair

Revised title; added year to INCITS numbers for 379, 381 and 385; added INCITS numbers for signature/sign (395) and hand geometry (396)

 5  1-Mar-2005  M1/05-0246  Creed Jones, M1.3 chair Added Signature/Sign format 0x0702 through 0x0706
 6  18-Oct-2005  M1/05-0724  Creed Jones, M1.3 chair Made corrections requested by Iridian in M1/05-0725; Added definitions for externally defined formats described in M1/05-0658 and M1/05-0680.

 

Note: content added or updated in the last revision is shown in RED.

Summary of Format Types in INCITS M1 Biometric Data Interchange Formats

Standard biometric data formats as developed in the Biometric Data Interchange Formats work of the INCITS M1 committee have CBEFF Format Owner and Format Type codes as defined in NISTIR 6529-A-2003 - Common Biometric Exchange Framework Format (CBEFF).  The format owner of these formats is the INCITS M1 committee for biometric standardization; the CBEFF Format Owner code for INCITS M1 is the sixteen-bit value 0x001B (hexadecimal 1B or 27 decimal).  The Format Owner is responsible for issuing unique Format Type codes for all biometric data formats that it defines.  These Format Owner codes are sixteen-bit numbers; the specific strategy for issuing these numbers is left to the issuer.

This document is the current list of defined Format Type codes for all biometric data formats issued by the M1 committee, as well as useful image and sample data formats that are defined in documents not developed by INCITS M1.  Each developing data format standard shall be assigned a Format Type code when the draft standard document is deemed ready for letter ballot for initial public review.  No Format Type codes shall be removed or deleted from this list.

Codes in the range 0x0000 to 0x7FFF (0 to 32767 decimal) represent data formats defined by INCITS M1.  The specifics of these data formats are described in published standards developed by M1.  Codes in the range 0x8000 - 0xFEFF (32768 - 65279 decimal) are used for formats not defined by INCITS M1.  These formats have been identified as being useful in some known context in applications of biometrics.  No attempt has been made to catalogue all possible sample data formats.  Codes in the range 0xFF00 to 0xFFFF (65280 to 65535 decimal) are reserved for local testing and other purposes.

The maintenance of this list shall be the responsibility of the chair of the M1 Biometric Data Formats group.  New revisions of this list shall be approved by vote of the M1 Biometric Data Formats group.  This list shall be maintained as an M1 standing document, available on-line at http://www.incits.org/tc_home/m1htm.

 

 

Number (hexadecimal)

Number (decimal)

Format

Standard

Further information

 0x0000 – 0x00FF

 0 – 255

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0100 – 0x01FF

 256 – 511

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0200

 512

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0201

 513

 Finger Minutiae format - no extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 378-2004

 ---

 0x0202

 514

 Finger Minutiae format - with extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 378-2003

 ---

 0x0203 – 0x02FF

 515 – 767

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0300

 768

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0301

 769

 Finger Pattern format - no extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 377-2004

 ---

 0x0302

 770

 Finger Pattern format - with extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 377-2004

 ---

 0x0303 – 0x03FF

 771 - 1023

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0400

 1024

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0401

 1025

 Finger Image format

 ANSI/INCITS 381-2004

 ---

 0x0402 – 0x04FF

 1026 - 1279

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0500

 1280

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0501

 1281

 Face Image format

 ANSI/INCITS 385-2004

 ---

 0x0502 – 0x05FF

 1282 - 1575

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0600

 1536

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0601

 1537

 Iris format - rectilinear

 ANSI/INCITS 379-2004

 ---

 0x0602

 1538

 Iris format - polar

 ANSI/INCITS 379-2004

 ---

 0x0603 – 0x06FF

 1539 - 1791

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0700

 1792

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0701

 1793

 Signature/Sign format - Raw data - no extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 395-2005

 ---

 0x0702

 1794

 Signature/Sign format - Raw data - with extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 395-2005

 ---

 0x0703  1795  Signature/Sign format - Common feature data - no extended data  ANSI/INCITS 395-2005  ---
 0x0704  1796  Signature/Sign format - Common feature data - with extended data  ANSI/INCITS 395-2005  ---
 0x0705  1797  Signature/Sign format - both Raw and Common feature data - no extended data  ANSI/INCITS 395-2005  ---
 0x0706  1798  Signature/Sign format - both Raw and Common feature data - with extended data  ANSI/INCITS 395-2005  ---

 0x0707 – 0x07FF

 1799 - 2047

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0800

 2048

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0801

 2049

 Hand Geometry format - no extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 396-2005

 ---

 0x0802

 2050

 Hand Geometry format - with extended data

 ANSI/INCITS 396-2005

 ---

 0x0803 – 0x08FF

 2051 - 2303

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x0900 – 0x7FFF

 2304 - 32767

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x8000

 32768

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0x8001

 32769

 WSQ compressed fingerprint image

 IAFIS-IC-0010 (V3) -
WSQ Gray-scale fingerprint image compression specification; 1997

 ---

 0x8002

 32770

 Microsoft Windows bitmap image

 --- 

http://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d/BMP.txt

 0x8003

 32771

 JPEG image

 ISO/IEC 10918 - Information Technology - Digital Compression and coding of continuous-tone still images (JPEG)

 ---

 0x8004

 32772

 JPEG2000 image

 ISO/IEC 15444 - Information Technology - JPEG 2000 Image Coding System

 ---

 0x8005

 32773

 TIFF image

 ISO/IEC 12639 - Tag image file format for image technology (TIFF/IT)

 ---

 0x8006

 32774

 CompuServe GIF89a image

 ---

 http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d/GIF89a.txt

 0x8007

 32775

 Portable Network Graphics (PNG) data

 ISO/IEC 15948:2003

 http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

 0x8008

 32776

 wav audio file

 ISO/IEC 13818 - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information

 ---

 0x8009

 32777

 MPEG media file

 ????????

 ---

 0x800A

 32778

 MPEG-3 media file

 ????????

 ---

 0x800B

 32779

 AVI media file

 ????????

 ---

 0x800C

 32780

 VRML 3D object data

 ????????

 ---

 0x800D

 32781

 NIST ITL-2000 Type 4 record

 ANSI/NIST ITL-2000

 ---

 0x800E

 32782

 NIST ITL-2000 Type 10 record

 ANSI/NIST ITL-2000

 ---

 0x800F

 32783

 NIST ITL-2000 Type 13 record

 ANSI/NIST ITL-2000

 ---

 0x8010

 32784

 NIST ITL-2000 Type 14 record

 ANSI/NIST ITL-2000

 ---

 0x8011

 32785

 NIST ITL-2000 Type 15 record

 ANSI/NIST ITL-2000

 ---

 0x8012

 32786

 NIST ITL-2000 Type 16 record

 ANSI/NIST ITL-2000

 ---

 0x8013 – 0xFEFF

 32787 - 65279

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---

 0xFF00 – 0xFFFE

 65280 - 65534

 none – reserved for testing purposes only

 ---

 ---

 0xFFFF

 65535

 none - reserved

 ---

 ---