Yoti and AVPA call for bias measurement in NIST age estimation assessments

The planned assessment of age estimation algorithms by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology should note the distribution of errors, include different age targets, and include a measurement of bias, according to comments from industry stakeholders.

NIST received 49 comments, including from human rights organizations, age estimation providers like Paravision and Yoti, and leading industry group the Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA), in response to a call for feedback on a Face Recognition Vendor Test track in …

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