IARPA Competition Spurs Research, Use of 'Soft' Biometrics
As facial recognition becomes more and more popular in security surveillance, the U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) continues to hunt for more sophisticated identification techniques, according to New Scientistmagazine and International Science Times.
The agency has challenged top research teams to a competition, announced Nov. 8, to revolutionize how machines recognize people.