From: Dennis Mancl Subject: ACM Princeton Chapter - Mar. 14 meeting and upcoming March events Date: March 7, 2019 at 2:48:34 PM EST To: PRINCETON-ACM-NOTICE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Reply-To: Dennis Mancl

Upcoming Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society Meetings and Events

Thursday Mar. 14 - "Bias in Face Recognition: Definitions, Magnitude, Mitigation," Patrick Grother, National Institute of Standards and Techology

Friday Mar. 22 - IT Professional Conference at TCF (at The College of New Jersey) -- see http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/tcfpro for list of speakers and registration information

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PRINCETON ACM / IEEE-CS CHAPTERS MARCH 2019 JOINT MEETING

Bias in Face Recognition: Definitions, Magnitude, Mitigation

As the poster-child of the AI revolution, face recognition has undergone a period of rapid improvement to the point that individuals can be readily identified when a single photograph is searched against a database containing tens of millions of faces. This task is non-trivial. Algorithms are fully proprietary and not commoditized as some are far more accurate than others. Yet all fail more or less gracefully when fed poor photographs, when a subject changes appearance with age, and on images for certain sub-populations. This latter aspect constitutes an existential threat to use of face recognition as end users, system owners, algorithm developers, and regulators struggle to understand the problem, its magnitude and impact.

The talk will give an overview of face recognition applications and technology, then describe how and where biometric systems fail and the range of demographic influences. The talk will review recent publications, and give a preview of an upcoming government report on demographic effects in face recognition. The talk will define metrics, give extensive empirical results for contemporary leading commercial algorithms, make conjectures to explain the observations, and discuss impact and possible mitigation.

Patrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology responsible for biometric algorithm evaluation, and biometric performance testing standardization. He leads evaluations of face and iris recognition algorithms at NIST. Patrick has worked in image processing, pattern recognition, optics and biometrics.

Date: Thursday March 14, 2019, 8:00pm (refreshments at 7:30pm) Place: Princeton University Computer Science Building Small Auditorium, Room CS 105 35 Olden Street, Princeton NJ Information: Dennis Mancl (908) 285-1066 On-line meeting notice: http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/meetings/mtg1903.pdf

All ACM / IEEE-CS meetings are open to the public. Students and their parents are welcome. There is no admission charge.

A pre-meeting dinner is held at 6:00 p.m. at Ruby Tuesday's Restaurant on Route 1. Please send email to princetonacm@gmail.org in advance if you plan to attend the dinner.

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Future Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society Meetings

NOTE: The location for all of our regular monthly meetings -- Computer Science Building at Princeton University. All monthly meetings are at 8pm.

Saturday Mar. 16 - IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (at McDonnell Hall, Princeton University) http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/stem

Friday Mar. 22 - IT Professional Conference at TCF (at The College of New Jersey) ** Registration is now open ** $135 (Professionals), $35 (students and senior citizens) http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/tcfpro

Saturday Mar. 23 - Trenton Computer Festival (at The College of New Jersey) http://www.tcf-nj.org

Thursday Apr. 11 - "Natural Language Processing at the National Library of Medicine," Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine http://PrincetonACM.acm.org/meetings/mtg1904.pdf (NOTE: this meeting is the SECOND Thursday of April)

Thursday May 16 - Annual Dinner Meeting (at Grafton House, Hamilton Township)

June TBA - Annual Elections and Planning Meeting