BiCCL: The Biometric Client Configuration Language
Matthew L. Aronoff, Ross J. Micheals · 2008
In this paper, we introduce the Biometric Client Configuration Language, or BiCCL. BiCCL is a platform‐ independent, domain‐specific language (DSL) that formally describes the biometric acquisition process. BiCCL uses high‐level constructs—e.g., ‘sensors’, ‘tasks’, ‘experimental conditions’, and ‘workflow ’ —to help users directly encode their intent. To test the expressiveness of this new DSL, we built a reference compiler that translates BiCCL directly into XML that can be consumed by the NIST Multimodal Biometric Application Resource Kit (MBARK). Problem & Background With the falling cost of biometric authentication hardware (fingerprint scanners, iris scanners, digital cameras, etc.) and the increased integration of biometrics within daily computer interaction, multimodal biometric authentication is being used in a broadening range of identity verification tasks. A self‐serving example would be the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Multimodal Biometric Application Resource Kit (MBARK), available at