An other-race effect for face recognition algorithms

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Phillips, P Jonathon ^a   Jiang, Fang ^b   Narvekar, Abhijit ^b   Ayyad, Julianne ^b   O'Toole, Alice J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Human machine comparisons

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIANS; EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES; FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; FALSE ACCEPT RATE; FALSE ALARM RATE; HUMAN-MACHINE; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS; OTHER-RACE EFFECTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; SECURITY APPLICATION; WESTERN COUNTRIES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPETITION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 79551667954     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1870076.1870082     Document Type: Article

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