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<strong>Biometric</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> Section 2 5<br />

<strong>Biometric</strong> Security Project (NBSP) was founded in 2001<br />

to respond to the events of September 11, 2001, and the<br />

need for accelerated development and deployment of<br />

biometrics technologies.<br />

How <strong>Biometric</strong> Technologies Work—<br />

In General<br />

At their most basic level, biometric technologies are<br />

pattern recognition systems that use either image-<br />

acquisition devices, such as scanners or cameras in the<br />

case of fingerprint or iris recognition technologies, or<br />

sound or movement acquisition devices, such as microphones<br />

or platens in the case of voice recognition or signature<br />

recognition technologies, to collect the biometric<br />

patterns or characteristics. The characteristics of the ac-<br />

Figure 2-2 Generic <strong>Biometric</strong> Process<br />

Version 2 – Summer 2008

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