Controversy sticks to the use of facial recognition by US police
Facial recognition algorithms used by police in the U.S. are getting no less controversial. If anything, the issue is just…
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Mindtech’s Digital Humans 2.0 aims to mitigate bias in synthetic datasets
Mindtech, the developer of a synthetic data creation platform for training computer vision systems, has announced the launch of its…
Texas university launching large synthetic face biometrics training dataset
Using synthetic data instead of real people’s faces to train facial recognition systems has been gaining ground among biometrics companies…
Go beyond overall biometrics accuracy testing, early and broadly
Biometric systems with generally high accuracy can have hidden performance problems in the form of differentials in error rates for…
FIDO showcases new certifications for remote IDV and bias at Authenticate 2023
At the 2023 Authenticate conference in Carlsbad, California, a trio of speakers from the FIDO Alliance reflected on the current…
Panasonic, academic researchers say data partitioning can reduce face biometrics bias
Two Panasonic divisions and a Singapore university have developed a way to train face biometrics algorithms that they say improves…
Race, gender bias in matching algorithm remain – DHS report
An annual U.S. Homeland Security study of bias in commercial biometric software, released in August, suggest similar results found in…
The multi-national push to ban facial recognition in public spaces
As businesses and governments in the U.S. and across the globe implement facial recognition surveillance in public spaces, privacy advocates…
Assessing skin hue to skin tone makes measuring biometric bias easier — research
A team of Sony and Tokyo University researchers say they have created a better way to measure apparent skin color…
Synthetic faces could solve algorithmic bias and ethical data quandary: IDVerse
For years, many of the AI systems used for facial recognition and identity verification have had a race and gender…
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