FB pixel

Rank One claims a victory in NIST’s new benchmark for biometric face-scan memory use

 

artificial-intelligence-edge-computing-biometric-facial-recognition-apple

A key U.S. government standards agency has begun tabulating runtime memory use by facial recognition algorithms, and a Colorado-based software maker is claiming bragging rights on its rank.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes an ongoing report on benchmarks for any facial recognition algorithms submitted in an effort to help define the rapidly evolving market.

In January, NIST added the peak-memory benchmark to its Face Recognition Vendor Test because the environments into which the technology is expected to grow quickly — mobile, embedded and on-edge applications — generally have little random access memory to spare.

Executives at Rank One Computing, a maker of facial recognition algorithms, wasted little time in promoting the fact that their algorithms ranked third and fifth in a field of 190 competitors.

The new NIST benchmark measures “the peak size of the resident set size logged during enrollment of single images.” This makes it valuable for developing mobile, edge, and embedded applications, which typically face significant resource constraints, such as low memory.

Two Rank One submissions, named rankone 007 and rankone 008, with 67MB and 79MB, respectively, of RAM (page 22, lines 121 and 122 in the January report).

Algorithms requiring less memory were from TUPU Technology Co. Ltd, which was first with 33MB; Videonetics Technology Pvt. Ltd., second with 61 MB; and Ayonix, fourth with 69MB. According to the company, the median use recorded in the report was 730MB.

Rank One executives say the other three offerings are many times less accurate than theirs. The company also says its enrollment speeds are more than twice as fast as the median algorithm speed, and it makes another algorithm which requires less than 10MB of RAM.

The January publication (NIST’s sixteenth such report since 2017) is still a draft and is open for comment.

Article Topics

 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 

Latest Biometrics News

 

Regulator presses TFH for details on World biometric data collection in Indonesia

Indonesia government officials are exploring the potential misuse of biometric data and may require the deletion of 500,000 iris data…

 

Ghana’s new identification authority board to focus on public trust, inclusive service delivery

The National Identification Authority of Ghana (NIA) has new appointees on its governing board with a call on them to…

 

Biometrics has been drafted into the battle between AI fraud and AI defenses

Biometrics implementations for public services are expanding in countries around the world, even as AI-enabled fraud and deepfakes threaten online…

 

Oversight report fuels urgency of Congressional push for TSA biometrics reform

At a time of intensified scrutiny of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) expanding use of facial recognition technology (FRT) at…

 

Chad issues biometric IDs to thousands of refugees with Idemia tech, UNHCR’s help

Refugees in Chad can now apply for a legal identity to bring them an important step closer to social and…

 

Moldova launches digital ID card, takes another step to align with eIDAS

Moldova has reached several milestones towards complying with European Union regulations on electronic identification over the past months. On April…

Comments

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Biometric Market Analysis

Most Viewed This Week

Featured Company

Biometrics Insight, Opinion

Digital ID In-Depth

Biometrics White Papers

Biometrics Events