Accuracy in identification

Improvement in accuracy of the best performing face recognition systems evaluated by NIST, from October 2018 to December 2024.

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The plot shows the false negative rate on an identification task, when a threshold is chosen to produce a false positive rate of 0.003. The chart shows the false non-matching (aka false negative) rate falling from around 6 in 1000 to under 1 in 1000 during this 6 year period.

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