Division 1.1.2 Facial images

The quality of the facial images, including near infrared ones, shall comply with the thresholds specified in the technical specifications referred to in Article 37(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 and with the image requirements of ISO/IEC 19794-5:2011 Frontal image type. The quality of the facial image shall be assessed at national level by Member States at the time of capture prior to their transmission to the CS-EES, optionally with the support of a tool provided, maintained and updated by eu-LISA. The facial quality algorithm shall be comprehensible in terms of the ISO/IEC 19794-5:2011 criteria.

The quality threshold for the facial images shall be fixed using a facial image quality assessment algorithm based on the quality measures outlined in ISO 19794-5 and provide quality checks analogous to those implemented at the CS-EES^f1.