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…
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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…
NIST seeks feedback on measurement of biometric bias
Bias in face biometrics has decreased as algorithm developers focus their efforts, according to the latest test results from the…
Innovatrics tops iris matching ranks in 2021 DHS biometrics rally, 2022 to tackle groups
Innovatrics has broken cover to announce it ranked tops for iris matching in the 2021 U.S. Department of Homeland Security…
DHS details 2022 biometrics rally focused on group face processing
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) revealed specific information about the scenario for the…
DHS is going bigger with its next face biometrics rally
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security opened industry applications for its 2022 Biometric Technology Rally. The department’s Science and Technology…
Expanded skin tone scale released by Google to help reduce bias in AI, computer vision
Progress on work done by Google to reduce the level of AI bias in the capture of images of skins…
DHS Biometric Rally 2021 results show accuracy gains, but masks and equality still challenges for some
Three quarters of the errors encountered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) in its…
Standard for measuring face biometrics bias coming, AI bias mitigation needs wider scope
A working draft of a standard for measuring bias in face biometrics has been published by the International Standards Organization…
Biometrics experts plead for scientific foundation to White House policy
Biometric technologies for establishing or confirming a person’s physical identity are not similar enough to those intended for emotional analysis…
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