1. An apparatus for generating a recognizability score, the apparatus comprising: a vector calculator for determining a quality feature vector from an input image, the vector calculator adapted for communication to receive the input image. a score generator for generating a recognition score from the quality feature vector, the score generator adapted to receive the quality feature vector from the vector calculator; and a scoring module for generating the recognizability score from the recognition scores, the scoring module adapted to communicate with the score generator to receive the recognition score.