Specialists from the Unified Center for Biometric Testing (ECBI) conducted the first testing of Russian facial recognition systems. Seven IT solutions were tested for accuracy, the press service of the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of Moscow reported.
The tests involved four companies from Moscow and one from Chelyabinsk. Their biometric algorithms had to find similar faces in a database of 750 thousand images.
How the algorithms were evaluated
When evaluating IT solutions, the following parameters were taken into account: data collection reliability (processing images of a person in glasses, in a half-turn) and recognition accuracy (error rate). The final result was calculated based on the arithmetic mean of all metrics.
Dmitry Golovin, Deputy Head of the DIT of Moscow, said that the algorithms analyzed images from city video surveillance cameras. The test participants demonstrated their developments in real, not laboratory conditions, he added.
As a result, the market receives a transparent tool for selecting technologies for a specific business task.
The DIT of Moscow also noted that the ECBI will regularly conduct such tests. This will allow tracking progress in the development of domestic biometrics.
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