NIST report tackles issue of ‘bias’ in facial biometrics
New research on demographic differentials of biometric facial recognition accuracy, or ‘bias,’ has been published by the U.S. National Institute…
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Researcher discusses facts related to media narratives about facial recognition ‘bias’
“Biometric performance is nuanced and cannot be reduced to generalizations like ‘bias’,” reads a LinkedIn article by Yevgeniy Sirotin, PhD,…
Buolamwini, Gebru and Raji win AI Innovation Award for research into biometric bias
Biometrics researchers Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru, and Inioluwa Raji have won the AI for Good category in VentureBeat’s AI Innovation…
CBP does not have data to assess racial bias in Biometric Exit facial recognition
U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not gather data on race and ethnicity, and therefore is not able to assess…
Canada border agency investigating possible bias of biometric airport kiosks
Automated biometric primary inspection kiosks (PIKs) at Canadian airports may have higher error rates when processing people from certain ethnic…
Chief Bias Officer position may be necessary to combat algorithmic bias
While many companies continue to debate how to shape their executive teams in response to increasing digitization, and whether they…
MIT researchers developing automated tool to ‘de-bias’ AI training data
A team at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is developing a solution which features an algorithm that…
Amazon finds zero false positives in Rekognition testing and takes issue with bias report
Accusations that Amazon provides inaccurate facial biometric technology and lacks appropriate concern over the ethical and social concerns about facial…
New facial biometric bias study from Buolamwini fans flames of controversy
Significant improvements have been made recently in the poor accuracy of facial recognition algorithms for recognizing women with darker skin,…
IBM launches real-time algorithmic bias detection tools
IBM has launched software to analyze how and why algorithms make decisions, as well as detect bias and recommend changes….
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