Agencies Using Facial Recognition Tech Await Image Standards

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Contractors anxious to understand how federal agencies will rate their artificial intelligence-based tools can see the next point for this evolving industry in a new facial recognition standard with higher expectations for image quality.

Wide adoption across government of a new standard will change how vendors develop tools targeted at federal customers, requiring a higher level of accuracy and potentially smoothing out problems with bias embedded in AI tech.

The National Institute for Standards and Technology is collaborating with the Department of Homeland …