Windows Biometric SDK

Below is a sample of one of the vendors who has packaged the Biometric SDKMOSIP as a platform does not have any inbuilt capabilities to handle biometrics. It relies on external components and subsystems to perform all activities pertaining to biometrics. As a platform it defines formats, standards and interfaces for these external components and subsystems. The Biometrics SDK is a critical external component used for performing operations with biometric data in multiple MOSIP modules - Registration Client, Authentication and Registration Processor.

Windows Biometric SDK

The windows biometric SDK may be packaged in the following way and provided to the MOSIP team as a zip file. When extracted, the following is a typical folder structure

Folder structure

+root folder
-face_sdk.dll
-face_sdk_jni.dll
-face_sdk.lic
-iris_sdk.dll
-iris_sdk_jni.dll
-iris_sdk.lic
-fp_sdk.dll
-fp_sdk_jni.dll
-fp_sdk.lic
-config.properties
-<sdkname>.jar
-Utility applications

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The vendor may package tools (Applications) that are standalone programs for checking the functionality of the SDK before they are integrated with MOSIP. Some vendors may supply utilities to generate license files and tokens that might have to be copied into the extracted folder.

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Server Biometric SDK

The server biometric SDK is packaged and delivered as a docker exposing the REST APIs which have been designed based on https://github.com/mosip/commons/blob/release-1.2.0/kernel/kernel-biometrics-api/src/main/java/io/mosip/kernel/biometrics/spi/IBioApi.java

The following are the REST APIs that needs to be implemented for MOSIP to integrate with the SDK

POST /api/init

The SDK initialization methods serves the dual purpose of sharing information about the SDK and performing any one time activities including initialization of internal variables and algorithms.

checkQuality

match

extractTemplate

segment

convertFormat