NIST splits FRVT into face biometrics and facial analysis evaluations

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is splitting the Face Recognition Vendor Test, renowned throughout the biometrics industry as the leading evaluation of facial recognition algorithms from developers around the world, into two.

The FRVT will be replaced with the Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) and the Face Analysis Technology Evaluation (FATE), with the various tracks of the previous FRVT divided between them.

NIST notes in an announcement that the acronym “FRT” is widely used to refer to …

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