House unanimously passes deepfake bill; Senate version still in committee
The bipartisan House Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks Act (IOGAN Act), which supports critical research to accelerate the development…
IARPA
IARPA seeks information on long-range biometric recognition and identification technologies
Information on private sector research efforts and datasets that may be “useful in planning a program focused on advancing the…
IARPA expands research on protecting AI systems from tampering
The U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is planning a pair of programs to prevent training data from…
IARPA launches procurement process for video data to advance biometric tracking and re-identification
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has issued a request for information (RFI) for data collection from camera networks…
IARPA and NIST offer $50,000 for best activity detection in extended video
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is holding an Activities in Extended Video (ActEV) Prize Challenge in collaboration with NIST,…
Researchers developing sophisticated biometric spoof detection system with IARPA backing
A researcher at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute is working with an international team to build spoof-proof…
IARPA looks to industry for help identifying tampering with AI systems
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is proposing a TrojAI program to build tools for predicting if artificial intelligence…
Crossmatch continues work on PAD for fingerprint and iris biometrics, selected for Phase 2 of IARPA Thor program
Crossmatch has been selected by IARPA to enter Phase 2 of the Thor program. The Thor program focuses on the…
IARPA challenge aims to improve face recognition
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is holding…
NIST N2N Challenge shows progress towards operator-free rolled fingerprint enrollment
The assistance of a trained device operator may soon not be necessary for obtaining high-quality rolled fingerprints, due to improvements…
