InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards:
M1- Biometrics
The Executive Board of INCITS established Technical Committee M1, Biometrics, in November 2001 to ensure a high priority, focused, and comprehensive approach in the United States
for the rapid development and approval of formal national and international generic biometric standards. The M1 program of
work includes biometric standards for data interchange formats, common file formats, application program interfaces, profiles,
and performance testing and reporting. The goal of M1's work is to accelerate the deployment of significantly better, standards-based security solutions for purposes, such as, homeland defense and the prevention of identity theft as well as other government and commercial applications based on biometric personal authentication. more...
The L3 Technical Committee on Audio/Picture Coding serves as the U.S. TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29, "Coding of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information.
L3 activities and project development are conducted at the international level for the standardization of coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information - and of sets of compression and control functions for use with such information - such as: audio information, bi-level and limited bits-per-pixel still pictures; computer graphics images; moving pictures and associated audio, multimedia and hypermedia information for real-time final form interchange; and audio visual interactive scriptware. more...
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