Rank One stands out in NIST test of image quality assessment for face biometrics
A benchmark of facial image quality assessment algorithms for preventing bad input from causing problems with face biometrics systems has…
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What is the FRVT?
The Face Recognition Vendor Test is an ongoing program funded by the United States. It judges the many face biometrics…
Canadian academic report urges no facial recognition at legislature, reasons why sow confusion
Canada’s Parliamentary Protective Service is thinking about deploying face biometrics around the country’s legislature. As part of that process, the…
Deep-learning advance improves facial recognition for people wearing veils
A team of researchers spanning Asia, Europe and U.S. universities say they used a convolutional neural network to extract characteristics…
Lossy image compression negatively affects facial recognition algorithms, research shows
Experimental research by a team from the Department of Computer Science in the University of Durham, UK, demonstrates that image…
NIST’s image standards could become win/lose factor for govt biometrics contractors
The U.S. government is developing a vendor-neutral standard for assessing how useful an image might be for biometric identification. The…
Idiap researchers propose biometric fairness metrics to decouple bias from accuracy
Several new measures for quantifying demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric identity verification systems are suggested in a paper which…
Facial recognition getting better at handling modest angles and big smiles
The state of the art of facial recognition has improved over recent years to the point of handling certain kinds…
Indian police using 80 percent facial recognition confidence threshold
Eighty percent is a respectable test grade for a subject that a student is unfamiliar with, but may not be…
ROC lauds algorithms’ accuracy and efficiency scores in NIST facial recognition test
Rank One Computing (ROC) has achieved impressive results in the latest Face Recognition Vendor Tests (FRVT) by the National Institute…
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