Biometric SDK

Overview

Applications

• Registration Client.

• Backend quality check.

• Biometric authentication during onboarding (internal auth).

• ID Authentications.

Biometric SDK library

The library is used by Registration Client to perform 1:N match, segmentation, extraction etc. For more information on integration with Registration Client, refer to Registration Client Biometric SDK Integration Guide.

A simulation of this library is available as Mock BioSDK. The same is installed in the MOSIP sandbox.

Biometric SDK service

For 1:1 match and quality check of biometrics at the MOSIP backend, the BioSDK must be running as a service that can be accessed by Registration Processor and IDA Internal Services. The service exposes REST APIs specified here.

A simulation (mock) service has been provided. The mock service loads mock BioSDK internally on the startup and exposes the endpoints to perform 1:N match, segmentation, extraction as per IBioAPI.

The service may be packaged as a docker running inside MOSIP Kubernetes cluster or running separately on a server. It is important that the scalability of this service is taken care depending on the load on the system, i.e., the rate of enrolment and ID authentication.

API

1. BioSDK library: IBioAPI.

2. BioSDK service: TBD.

Testing kit

BioSDK server request/response may be tested using BioSDK testing kit.

Configuration

The following properties in application-default.properties needs to be updated to integrate the BioSDK library and service with MOSIP.

mosip.fingerprint.provider=io.mosip.kernel.bioapi.impl.BioApiImpl
mosip.face.provider=io.mosip.kernel.bioapi.impl.BioApiImpl
mosip.iris.provider=io.mosip.kernel.bioapi.impl.BioApiImpl
mosip.ida.biosdk-service.url=http://mock-biosdk-service.default:80
mosip.regproc.biosdk-service.url=http://mock-biosdk-service.default:80
mosip.idrepo.biosdk-service.url=http://mock-biosdk-service.default:80