How does biometric recognition work?
For the purpose of recognition, the biometric data subject (the person to be recognized) presents his or her biometric characteristic to the biometric capture device which generates a recognition biometric sample from it. From the recognition biometric sample the biometric feature extraction creates biometric features which are compared with one or multiple biometric templates from the biometric enrolment database. Due to the statistical nature of biometric samples there is generally no exact match possible. For that reason, the decision process will only assign the biometric data subject to a biometric template and confirm recognition if the comparison score exceeds an adjustable threshold.
