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Rank One is boasting about its strong performance in the latest round of NIST testing. The company’s ROC SDK v1.20 was one of the most accurate algorithms tested in the most recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:N identification report, which evaluates a solution’s ability to match an image of an unknown person’s face to […]
Paravision is celebrating its strong performance in the NIST’s latest Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:N Identification report. The 1:N test evaluates facial recognition algorithms based on their ability to match an unknown face to a known identity. This time around, Paravision’s solution was measured against more than 200 facial recognition algorithms from 60 different […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling attention to potential ethical violations related to the NIST’s Tattoo Recognition Challenge. The NIST issued the Tatt-C challenge in 2014 in an effort to spur the development of automatic tattoo recognition tools, giving interested parties access to an “open tattoo database” that contained more than 15,000 images. […]
The ongoing coronavirus epidemic continues to disrupt the biometrics industry’s events calendar, with the Biometrics Institute announcing that it has postponed its US Conference. The event was originally slated to take place this month, but has now been pushed back to September 21st in the interest of mitigating the spread of COVID-19. In the meantime, […]
The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) is trying to put a more charitable spin on a recent NIST report that examines the performance of various facial recognition algorithms. The report was based on the NIST’s evaluation of 189 different algorithms. In its response, the IBIA takes issue with those who raised concerns about accuracy […]
Professionals in biometrics and adjacent industries have long agreed on the importance of standardized testing of biometric technologies, but that consensus may be strengthening further. That’s one way to interpret some of the latest results from FindBiometrics’ Year in Review survey. The question at hand here concerned whether respondents agreed with the following statement: “Standardized […]
A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released last Thursday shows that many of the facial recognition algorithms used today misidentify people of color far more often than middle-aged white men. The study tested roughly 18 million photos of more than 8 million people taken from databases run by the State […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the release of three new biometric databases aimed at helping accelerate the development of more secure and accurate biometric identification systems. The databases — knows as SD 300, SD 301, and SD 302 — contain different types of biometric data collected at different times including […]
Yoti is trying to make the biometric authentication process a little more comprehensible for its users. Data Protection Officer Emma Butler has detailed the theory and the intent behind the company’s selfie authentication technology in a new post on the Yoti blog, explaining how it uses a facial recognition scan to create a biometric template […]
Innovatrics is looking to Latin America in an effort to increase its international profile, with plans to widen its reach in the region. The company notes that it already has extensive public and private partnerships in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru, and has enrolled more than 30 million customers across the region. “We are expecting […]
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