NIEM Progression 5

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biom:Minutiae

A minutiae record

biom:Minutiae holds other objects.

biom:Minutiae can hold any of these following objects, starting with the most specific and becoming more generic as you move down the list:


biom:ImageCaptureDetail

A set of information regarding the captured (e.g., scanned) image

Holds other objects.


biom:MinutiaeFingerLocation

A finger position, segment, off-center code, and polygon location within an image

Holds other objects.


biom:FingerprintCaptureTechnique

A classification of the manner in which the FINGERPRINT is taken.

Holds other objects.


biom:MinutiaeQuantity

A number of minutiae recorded in a record

Holds numbers.


biom:FingerprintImageMajorCasePrint

A set of information required when finger position code is "19" complete friction ridge exemplars

Holds other objects.


biom:FingerprintImageSegmentPositionSquare

A fingerprint image segment position square

Holds other objects.


biom:FingerprintImageFingerMissing

A missing finger in a fingerprint image

Holds other objects.


biom:PositionUncertaintyValue

A radius of position uncertainty (PUM) in the manual or automatic placement of the core in integer units of 10 micrometers

Holds numbers.


biom:MinutiaCharacterizationQualityValue

A number representing the distribution of the parameter over thousands of fingerprints approximating a Gaussian distribution.

Holds numbers.


biom:MinutiaClassifierQualityValue

A number that indicates the quality or confidence of the automatic classification.

Holds numbers.


biom:FingerprintPatternCoreLocation

A location of a fingerprint pattern's core in a fingerprint image

Holds other objects.


biom:FingerprintPatternDeltaLocation

A location of a fingerprint pattern's delta in a fingerprint image

Holds other objects.


nc:FingerprintTakenIndicator

True if a fingerprint biometric was taken; false otherwise.

Holds true/false values.


biom:FingerprintCategoryDescriptionText

A description of a fingerprint type.

Holds text.


biom:FingerprintFeaturesFeedback

A kind of supplemental proprietary value describing minutiae and related information encoded from a fingerprint image.

Holds other objects.


biom:FingerprintFeaturesVersionText

A vendor and version of the fingerprint feature extraction software used to encode minutiae.

Holds text.


biom:FingerprintIdentification

An identification that uniquely identifies a Person's fingerprints.

Holds other objects.


biom:MinutiaeFormatNISTStandardIndicator

True if the NIST standard format for minutiae is used; false otherwise

Holds true/false values.


biom:FingerRidgeMinutia

A minutia in a friction ridge image (Obsolete).

Holds other objects.


biom:ExtendedFeatureSetMinutiae

A set of elements for the measure and definition of friction ridge detail within a particular region of interest in a fingerprint or palm print image

Holds other objects.


biom:INCITSMinutiae

A set of minutiae definitions conforming to Section 5 of the ANSI INCITS 378-2004 Standard

Holds other objects.


biom:OtherMinutiae

A set of minutiae definitions to be used for a feature set owner or developer other than the ones specifically defined in this standard

Holds other objects.