Face Scan Standards Aim to Reduce Bias for TSA, US Customs Use

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 Security to develop a “vendor-agnostic assessment tool for determining how well an image would be useful for ...