Face Recognition Evaluation and Pilots

Definition:Standard evaluation protocols are used to evaluate various face recognition algorithms and examine their limitations.

The growing number of face recognition (FR) methods has imposed the development of standard evaluation protocols and the creation of large evaluation databases. Based on that, a series of public tests evaluating face recognition algorithms and examining their limitations have been performed. The most recent one is the Facial Recognition Vendor Test of 2002 (FRVT2002), in which several state-of the art commercial FR systems were tested using a database of 121,589 images of 37,437 Mexican VISA applicants collected by the US Department of State [1]. The verification performance was measured using the false acceptance (FAR) and false rejection (FRR) rates. FAR is defined as the percentage of instances that a non-authorized individual is falsely accepted by the system, while FRR is defined as the percentage of instances an authorized individual is falsely...