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ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 - UPDATE 2013 DRAFT VERSIONAnnex F: Extended Feature Set Detailed IntructionsNormativeAt the ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard Workshop I in April 2005, the Scientific Working Group onFriction Ridge Analysis, Study, and Technology (SWGFAST) was tasked to identify, define andprovide guidance on additional fingerprint features beyond the traditional ending ridges andbifurcations currently defined in the ANSI/NIST-ITL-2000 standard. SWGFAST drafted a memoto NIST in response 199 , enumerating the features used by expert human latent examiners that arenot currently addressed in fingerprint feature standards. SWGFAST stated its concern: “AFIS[Automated Fingerprint Identification System] technology, since its onset, has utilized a verylimited amount of fingerprint detail. Latent print experts must rely on far more information ineffecting individualizations/exclusions than just ending ridges and bifurcations, i.e., the Type-9minutiae record. SWGFAST is attempting to educate and provide to the vendor community theadditional features and how they are utilized by these experts.” In response to SWGFAST, apresentation was given at the ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard Workshop II in December 2005, entitled“Extended Fingerprint Feature Set”, and it was proposed that a committee be convened todefine an Extended Fingerprint Feature Set as an Annex to the next ANSI/NIST-ITL standard.The Committee to Define an Extended Fingerprint Feature Set (CDEFFS) was chartered for thatpurpose. The committee included representatives from various Federal Agencies, SWGFASTand the latent fingerprint community, and engineers from a variety of AFIS vendors.This Annex to the standard and the fields associated with EFS included in Type-9 of thisversion of the standard are the result of agreements reached among the members of CDEFFSduring workshops held in April, May, and July 2006, and extensive electronic interactions anddocument reviews from December 2005 through March 2011, as well as presentations and theagreement of participants in the workshops held in July 2010 and March 2011 at NIST toinclude EFS in the 2011 version of the standard.199Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology(SWGFAST); Memo to Mike McCabe (NIST) Regarding ANSI/NIST ITL 1-2000;November, 2005;http://biometrics.nist.gov/cs_links/standard/ansi_2010/archive/SWGFAST_Memo.pdf484