NIST face biometrics accuracy update shows same top vendors for people wearing masks
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated the results of its testing for the accuracy of facial…
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A year later and UK passport biometric face scan system still favors white males
Almost a year to the day after media stories questioned bias in UK biometric face scanning systems, it appears little…
Face Forensics announces tattoo recognition upgrade to biometric algorithm
Face Forensics has released an update to its Full Face Recognition (f2) solution which improves the program’s biometric algorithms to…
Lawsuit alleges biometric privacy violations from face recognition algorithm training
Allegations that the Ever cloud photo service violated Illinois’ stringent biometric data privacy regulations have made Paravision the latest biometrics…
Researchers show modest progress in face biometrics bias reduction, find a possible cause
Facial recognition developers appear to be making progress in reducing “bias” or demographic disparities in biometric accuracy, based on the…
Neurotechnology’s new MegaMatcher performs 1.2B biometric matches in one second without GPU
The latest version of Neurotechnology’s multi-biometric MegaMatcher portfolio of solutions and SDKs has been released with what the company calls…
Indonesia’s Akurat Satu rises in latest NIST facial recognition accuracy rankings
Indonesia biometrics developer Akurat Satu has finished in the top 25 for facial recognition accuracy with wild images in testing…
Commerce tries crowdfunding via a challenge to better analyze AI vision feeds
The U.S. Commerce Department is challenging software developers to find a better way to analyze computer vision algorithms, such as…
Banning won’t give facial recognition a conscience, but research and informed regulation might
Attempts to tame biometric facial recognition systems by banning them will only result in new problems, according to a global…
ID4Africa calls on Facebook to settle face biometrics bias question through NIST testing
The presence of demographic differences in face biometrics performance has dogged increasingly dogged the modality, and been referred to in…
