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A report from American Security Today U.S. Outdone by China and Russia

Russian & Chinese Firms Win NIST/IARPA

Face Recog Contest

By AST Administrator  12 Nov 2017

By Planet Biometrics

A Russian and Chinese firm both scored highest in a face-recognition competition run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
The winner of the face-verification task was Russia’s Ntech whose FindFace product can match a person’s face correctly 99.9 per cent of the time.
The face-search task was won by Shanghai start-up Yitu Tech.
NTechlab won in the categories of “identification speed” and “verification accuracy”—the latter refers to an ability to verify that two photos are of the same person.

IARPA launched the challenge so it could assess software’s ability to quickly and passively identify faces in the “wild,” including from public security footage.

Kaspersky Labs, recently black-listed by U.S. authorities had this to say back in 2016 . . .All in all, everybody collects photos: governments, corporations and companies, and even regular people. Nowadays, everyone can use and misuse facial recognition systems

 

How people misuse facial recognition technology – Kaspersky Lab ...

Kaspersky Lab

The dark side of facial recognition technology

August 22, 2016

News Privacy Technology

You can change your name or use a pseudonym. You can also edit or delete your social media accounts. But you cannot change your face so easily. Facial recognition helps us solve a lot of problems — and it simultaneously creates plenty of new ones. In this post, we discuss the threats that come with the global spread of such systems.

1. Losing the right to privacy — on a global scale

2. Abuse by law enforcement

3. Corporations spying on everybody

4. Anybody can find you

5. There is a thin line between security and disaster

6. Don’t share your face with any Tom, Dick, or Harry

 

 

An internal IARPA research program called Janus is developing its own facial recognition technology.

IARPA's program manager Chris Boehnen told Nextgov.com that while he had expected participation from commercial tech companies in the United States, Silicon Valley stalwarts like Google, Facebook and Amazon “tend to be reluctant to participate.”

NIST plans to release a report on the solutions presented.

Original post http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/6527/ 

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Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT)

The FRVT aims at measurement of the performance of automated face recognition technologies applied to a wide range of civil, law enforcement and homeland security applications including verification of visa images, de-duplication of passports, recognition across photojournalism images, and identification of child exploitation victims.