FRVT Ongoing
Technical information:
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| Contents | Facial Images |
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| Runs database software | |
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Developers and Users:
| Developed by | National Institute of Justice FBI DHS NIST IARPA |
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Description[edit | ]
the FRVT Ongoing challenge data from NIST contains the most image subjects, including the faces of 14,400,000 (Grother, Ngan, and Hanaoka 2018). 1
NIST FRVT dataset is funded by the Department of Homeland Security and contains data sourced from “U.S. Department of State’s Mexican non-immigrant Visa archive”(Phillips et al. 2003). 1
the NIST FRVT dataset is funded by the Department of Homeland Security and contains data sourced from “U.S. Department of State’s Mexican non-immigrant Visa archive”(Phillips et al. 2003). The prioritized and dominant use case for this technology is thus still security, access control, suspect identification, and video surveillance in the context of law enforcement and security (Sharif et al. 2017; Zhao et al. 2003). We can see from the historical context that the government promoted and supported this technology from the start for the purppurpose of enabling criminal investigation and surveillance. 1