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Security: NIST Releases Report on Biometrics Advances

Improved algorithms used in facial recognition software programs have improved the success of such technology by up to ten times since 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said in a report,"Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006 Large-Scale Results" issued March 29.

NIST indicated that the study for the first time set benchmarks for iris recognition technology that will allow progress of that technology to be measured and in addition for the first time compared iris recognition with two dimensional and three dimensional face recognition technologies.

NIST also indicated its study for the first time also directly compared the accuracy of face recognition evaluation by humans and computer programs. Seven of the algorithms studied by NIST showed comparable or better results than humans in false alarm rates for images taken in differing lighting conditions.

I enjoyed reading about the details and comparisons. I was somewhat surprised that it did not discuss the privacy implications; but then again, on second thought the lack of such discussion in this type of report is probably to be expected.

The report is 56 pages long; an interesting read!

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 10, 2007 12:30 AM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.