Paravision biometrics take runner-up in NIST masked faces test, tops among non-Chinese companies
Paravision’s biometric facial recognition has been found to have the second-best accuracy for identifying people with masks among algorithms tested…
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Portland face biometrics ban proposal reflects basic misunderstanding of the technology, IBIA says
Draft bills under consideration by the City of Portland to prohibit biometric facial recognition from being used by public and…
Facial expression recognition’s bias problem is glaring
No doubt having watched the attention being paid to racial bias in biometric facial recognition, a group of researchers looked…
NIST testing shows accuracy of face biometric algorithms developed pre-pandemic lowered by masks
Biometric facial recognition algorithms developed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic may be able to identify people wearing masks…
Stop waiting for society to wake up on biometrics. Here’s a plan to build trust
A new research paper finds that the capabilities of facial recognition and other biometric systems have vastly outpaced how the…
Mobile game company Artie releases demographic bias detection for voice technologies
Social media mobile game developer Artie has released the Artie Bias Corpus (ABC), a speech dataset that analyzes speech recognition…
U.S. Homeland Security fears mask use reduces public biometric surveillance effectiveness
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned that COVID-19 measures recommending masks or making them mandatory in public spaces…
Public discussions of biometrics use short on nuance, experts say in IBIA podcast on facial recognition
How accurate is accurate enough for facial biometrics? The answer is that an appropriate use policy takes the accuracy and…
The future of biometrics is in the palm of your hand
This is a guest post by Lenny Kontsevich, co-founder and chairman of Redrock Biometrics. Artificial intelligence researchers and technology scholars…
Facial recognition needs auditing and ethics standards to be safe, AI Now bias critic argues
The artificial intelligence community needs to begin developing the vocabulary to define and clearly explain the harms the technology can…
