The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) is trying to alleviate people’s fears about facial recognition, especially with regards to accuracy and racial bias. To that end, the organization has […]

The racial bias that tends to be displayed by numerous facial recognition algorithms seems to be intensified when subjects are wearing face masks, according to officials from the Department of […]

In the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that a facial recognition system is only as good as the subjects that were used to put it together. Critics […]

The NIST has released a new report that suggests that facial recognition is an effective screening tool in airport settings. In the report, the NIST evaluated the performance of 29 […]

A team of researchers at the University of Southern California has released a report that suggests that deepfake detection systems have many of the same biases as more traditional facial […]

Why society’s success depends on biometrics coming of age in the 2020s Today, biometrics technology has achieved mainstream acceptance. In the wake of the consumer biometrics boom that started in […]

The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is launching a new virtual event series, kicking off with a brief lunch talk and a pair of more extensive conference dates in March. […]

Crowdsource app tester Applause is looking to target bias in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) with a new AI training and testing service focused on diversity and size. Applause […]

“Kairos’s announcement placed a particular emphasis on the capability of EmotionReader’s technology to overcome demographic bias, which has been detected in other facial recognition systems and has led to serious […]