The Three-legged Stool
Technologically Speaking Podcast: Season 1, Episode 4. Host John Verrico sits down with Arun Vemury, program manager in the Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Biometrics and Identity Technology Center, to discuss facial recognition performance and fairness. They dive into how the technology works, how it has changed over time, current challenges and biases and what S&T is doing to overcome them. Arun and John also touch on whether facial recognition technology can distinguish between identical twins and the need for cameras that are designed to better accommodate the diversity of human faces and skin tones. Show notes:
- Biometric and Identity Technology Center
- Biometric Technology Rally
- Identity Verification During the Age of COVID-19 (Feature Article)
- DHS S&T's Biometric Technology Rally (Video)
- Evaluating the Equitability of Commercial Face Recognition Technology in DHS Scenarios (Video)
- NYAST Forum: Understanding Biometrics and Face Recognition (Video)
- S&T Announces Third Biometric Technology Rally (News Release)
- Demographic Variation in the Performance of Biometric Systems (Report)
- S&T Quantifying the Extent to Which Race and Gender Features Determine Identity in Commercial Face Recognition Algorithms (Report)
- Next Generation Identity: Mobile Driver’s License Fact Sheet (Fact Sheet)
- Emerging Technology: Challenges and Opportunities for Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) and Digital IDs (Video)
- Implementing Mobile Driver’s Licenses: Not as Easy as You Think (Feature Article)
- Technologically Speaking Podcast
- Recorded on: May 26, 2022
