Tag: NIST

Clearview AI awarded US patent for facial recognition platform

Jorge Gonzalez
Facial recognition - Patent Approved

The controversial company’s capabilities for gathering and matching images earned its first patent. Clearview AI, leading company and facial recognition platform has now been awarded a US patent for that platform’s capacity to gather and match images. The company has become the leader in its field, providing reliable photo identification technology. The Clearview AI photo identification platform in receipt of the patent managed to perform almost flawlessly in the recent Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The patent was for the “Methods…

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Facial recognition software is suffering from effects from the coronavirus

Sam Lambert
Facial recognition software - woman wearing face mask

Wearing face masks is making it more difficult for the algorithms to identify people. Face masks worn to slow the spread of COVID-19 are doing more than reducing exposure levels as they are also messing with facial recognition software accuracy. A new report showed that algorithms have a tough time identifying people wearing the masks. The report was issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a US Commerce Department branch. Among NIST’s tasks is to measure facial recognition software algorithm accuracy. Its new report showed that when…

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Mobile security guideline suggestions being accepted by NIST

Jennifer Goula
mobile security threats

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is working to develop a third party app guide. A recent statement made by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed that in the effort to develop a proper guide that takes mobile security into account in the testing of third party apps to ensure that they will not introduce additional vulnerabilities to a device, input is now being accepted. The government agency has already created a draft of the recommendations and is looking for comments. NIST has…

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