Face Recognition Vendor Test Available from NIST

The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006, latest in a series of large scale independent evaluations for face recognition systems, is available. The FRVT 2006 was sponsored by multiple U.S. government agencies and was conducted and managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

By Consulting Specifying Engineer Staff June 7, 2007

The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006, latest in a series of large scale independent evaluations for face recognition systems, is available. The FRVT 2006 was sponsored by multiple U.S. government agencies and was conducted and managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The FRVT 2006 large-scale results are available in the combined FRVT 2006 and ICE 2006 Large-Scale Results evaluation report.

The following organizations submitted algorithms to be evaluated:

Animetrics, Inc.

Carnegie Mellon University

Cognitec Systems GmbH

Diamond Information Systems (DIS)

Geometrix, Inc.

Guardia

Identix, Inc.

Neven Vision

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Nivis, LLC

Old Dominion University

Panvista Limited

Peking University, Center for Information Science

PeopleSpot Inc.

Rafael Armament Development Authority Ltd.

SAGEM SA

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)

Tsinghua University

Tili Technology Limited

Toshiba Corporation

University of Houston

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