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Improving Face Recognition Technology

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P Phillips

Abstract

US-government sponsored evaluations and challenge problems have helped spur over two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in face recognition system performance.
Citation
Computer (IEEE Computer)

Keywords

face recognition, evaluations, challenge problems

Citation

Phillips, P. (2011), Improving Face Recognition Technology, Computer (IEEE Computer), [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=908001 (Accessed May 25, 2026)
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Created March 9, 2011, Updated May 7, 2026
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