Friday 25/10/2019 __ 09:50-10:10

Session 10 __ What’s in your face?

Auditorium 12 __ First floor

Patrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST), responsible for biometric algorithm evaluation and biometric performance testing standardisation.

He leads the Face Recognition Vendor Tests, the Face-In-Video Evaluation and the Iris Exchange projects which constitute the world’s largest independent public tests of biometric algorithms. These give quantitative support to developers, end-users and policy makers faced with algorithm selection, performance adequacy assessment, procurement specification. His current research interests relate to biometric failure analysis: image quality, demographic effects, and scalability.

Patrick co-chairs NIST’s biannual International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) on measurement, metrics and certification. He also assists several US Government agencies in biometrics performance assessment and standardisation.

Since 2018, Patrick has served as the chairman of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 37 on Biometrics, and has edited seven performance testing and data interchange standards there. He received the IEC 1906 Award in 2009, and the ANSI Lohse IT Medal in 2013.

The talk will document NIST’s face recognition work and describe its capabilities and vulnerabilities, with a focus on morph and presentation attack detection.