MegaFace facial recognition dataset origin raises privacy and liability concerns
Pictures of two kids from Illinois made it to a biometric facial recognition database after their mom created a Flickr…
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Sogou biometric facial recognition algorithm hits high score in MegaFace Challenge
The MegaFace Challenge, billed as the world’s first large-scale facial recognition algorithm competition, has announced its latest results with the…
IntelliVision achieves 93% accuracy in Megaface face recognition challenge
The latest version of the IntelliVision Face Recognizer product has achieved an accuracy of over 93% on the Megaface million-scale…
Tencent AI research lab achieves record face recognition rate in MegaFace challenge
Tencent’s artificial intelligence research lab, YouTu Lab, has achieved a record-setting 83.29 percent recognition rate in the MegaFace challenge (Challenge1/FaceScrub…
UW releases MegaFace facial recognition algorithms benchmarking results
The University of Washington will be releasing initial results from its MegaFace Challenge at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision…
New datasets for biometric research on multimodal and interoperable performance launched by NIST
NIST has launched new datasets, consisting of fingerprint, facial photographs, and iris scans, to help biometrics researchers to evaluate the…
New facial recognition dataset and optimization method announced by iQIYI
Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI has launched a new dataset and is presenting a white paper on enhancing the training…
Insider perspectives and government engagement top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Insider perspectives on biometric security, and airport and event applications were the top theme of the week for the most…
UK academics introduce improved neural network for highly precise facial recognition
Researchers from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing have been working on a more precise…
CyberLink climbs NIST FRVT rankings for facial recognition accuracy in wild category
CyberLink has announced that its FaceMe AI Facial Recognition Engine has scored a biometric accuracy rate of 97.02 percent in…
