NIST seeks comment on plan to test facial age estimation

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning to begin evaluating age estimation with face biometrics in September, as debates over regulations mandating online age restrictions become more common, but no less contentious.

A draft document on the Face Recognition AE (Age Estimation) API describes how the newest FRVT track is proposed to work. It will not include an identification or recognition function, but is otherwise proposed to run similarly to the existing FRVT tracks. Mean absolute error …

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