NIST tests accuracy in iris recognition for identification

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http://fcw.com/articles/2012/04/23/nist-iris-recognition.aspx

By Alice Lipowicz
FCW.com
April 23, 2012

Iris recognition technology used to identify an individual from a crowd 
is accurate 90 percent to 99 percent of the time, according to a new 
report from the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

NIST’s Iris Exchange III report also found some trade-offs between 
accuracy and speed, the April 16 final report indicated. Faster searches 
tended to be less accurate.

At the same time, the iris recognition tests proved to be more accurate 
than facial recognition tests in some, but not all, circumstances.

NIST’s report is on the first public and independent test of 
commercially-available algorithms used to determine the accuracy of a 
one-to-many match, which is a check of an individual’s data against a 
large database of potential identities to determine if there is a match. 
Previous tests had looked only at one-to-one verification, in which 
testing is done to confirm whether an iris with a known identity can be 
confirmed against a specific record.

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