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PUBLICATIONS

Improving Face Recognition Technology

Published

Author(s)

P J. 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)
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

face recognition, evaluations, challenge problems
Biometrics

Citation

Phillips, P. (2011), Improving Face Recognition Technology, Computer (IEEE Computer) (Accessed October 15, 2025)

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Created March 9, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017
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