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…
demographic fairness
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Meta suggests an AI computer vision fairness standard, opens a model to all
Meta made a couple significant computer vision announcements this week. It introduced a proposed fairness benchmark, and it made vision…
Autonomous cars may have a person detection bias problem with complexions
Makers of self-driving cars have for years been fending off criticism about safety. Now, they may have to defend themselves…
International standard for testing bias in biometrics reaches committee stage
The standard for testing demographic differentials or ‘bias’ in biometric systems has reached the committee draft stage, and comments from…
Corsight’s Porter calls out ‘clickbait’ biometric bias claims
A mismatch by a facial recognition system is blamed for a wrongful arrest in Maryland in a Wired article that…
Meta updates AI fairness dataset with international content
Meta has released a new open-source dataset, Casual Conversations v2, designed to broaden the range of biometric identifiers and to…
Comments sought on working draft of ISO face biometrics fairness testing standard
The International Standards Organization has approved a working draft of the international standard for assessing facial recognition performance across different…
Idemia claims fairest facial verification among most accurate algorithms in latest NIST test
Idemia’s scores in the latest Face Recognition Vendor Test for one-to-one verification show near-identical false match rates between different demographic…
American researchers probe where biometric bias comes in and how to measure it
A pair of papers on why biometric systems are so often found to be less effective with some demographic groups…
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…
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