National Biometric Test Center Collected Works 1997-2000
James L. Wayman, Director, U.S. National Biometric Test Center
College of Engineering
San Jose State University
San Jose, California
online: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/biometric
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The National Biometric Test Center was created at San Jose State University in April, 1997, by the Biometric Consortium, which is the U.S. government interest group on biometric authentication. At the 7th Biometric Consortium meeting held in March of 1995 at the FBI training facility in Quantico, VA, each of 5 competing proponents was required to state their concept for the Test Center. San Jose State proposed that the Test Center, rather than simply testing commercial products, should seek to advance the fundamental scientific understanding of biometric identification. This directional emphasis became important when, after the award, it was determined that the Test Center would not be allowed to directly collect biometric data from U.S. citizens because of its affiliation with the Department of Defense. We ultimately came to view the data collection prohibition as a good thing, as through it, we were forced to obtain data from operational installations with populations far broader than our students and from environments far more challenging than our laboratory spaces The purpose to this
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