NIST’s Patrick Grother on bias, biometrics evolution and plans to test face recognition with masks
As the world’s foremost authority on the biometric performance of face recognition, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…
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Specificity crucial for useful biometrics tests, training with synthetic data: EAB panel
Synthetic data may address privacy issues with biometric algorithm training, but it must be used carefully in facial recognition training…
Biometrics talk gets real
Biometrics support digital identity in various forms that stakeholders are trying to make clearer in the most-read articles on Biometric…
Rights groups weigh in on NIST’s evaluation metrics for facial age estimation
Human rights organizations are taking an interest in the metrics used to evaluate age estimation by an American government body….
Gender, race bias risk reported in biometrics used by US Labor Department
An alert issued by the inspector general (IG) of the U.S. Department of Labor is raising “urgent equity and security…
Biometrics beyond encryption; ‘unlinkability’ and pseudonymization under GDPR
Even biometric templates secured with encryption are subject to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, and must be further protected, according…
EAB explores how to comply with GDPR mandate for biometric template protection
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation imposes new requirements for protecting biometric data, but debates and uncertainty about how…
Bias and morphing remain challenges in face biometrics, but measures are improving
A pair of the most pressing risks to the effectiveness of face biometric systems were under the microscope during the…
Facial recognition research community going beyond the algorithm to improve accuracy
The concept of ‘garbage in, garbage out’ applies to biometric systems just as easily as it does to coding or…
Amazon claims to cut facial recognition bias with unlabeled data
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a method to evaluate bias in facial recognition algorithms without using annotated identity labels. A…
