The federal government has pressed the private sector to improve facial and iris recognition technology dramatically so as to pave the way for improved biometric systems, and NIST has overseen the process in tests called the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006.
The facial-recognition test has compared vendor systems on in their ability to recognize high-resolution still images and three-dimensional facial images, under both controlled and uncontrolled illumination. The NIST evaluation team reported major differences in the speed at which different facial- recognition algorithms processed iris images. One of the mathematical routines, called Cambridge-2, processed the experimental iris data in six hours.
Getting Serious about Face and Iris Recognition
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