impact article: "A photo studio promoting greater fairness in biometrics"

A room in the Faculty of Computer Science at h_da is currently being transformed on a regular basis into a passport photo studio. Portrait photographs are being taken there for a globally unique dataset designed to assess the fairness of biometric facial recognition algorithms. The aim is, on the one hand, to ensure a consistently high quality of the photographs. Secondly, the dataset is to include as wide a variety of skin tones as possible. Participants are still being sought.

You can read the full article in the h_da science magazine “impact”: impact.h-da.de/forschung-fuer-faire-biometrie