The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to hold a conference related to a biometric presentation attack detection programme called Odin.The conference, to be held on 11 March in Washington, will be to provide information on Odin and the research problems the program aims to address, the agency noted.The goal of the Odin programme is to develop biometric presentation attack detection technologies to ensure biometric security systems can detect when someone is attempting to disguise their biometric identity.The group says that ideal solutions should be capable of operating with low biometric presentation attack false alarm rates (FAR) for high volume applications, and high biometric presentation attack true detect rates (TDR) for high security applications.In order to test Odin's ability to detect presentation attack approaches, a red team approach may be used to evaluate the performance of Odin technology. This will be facilitated by two components of Odin. Thor will develop presentation attack detection technology, and Loki will exercise Thor technology.As security vulnerabilities in government systems may be classified, Loki will be issued as a classified broad agenccy announcement and will have a classified discussion session on Odin Proposers' Day.Thor performers will be provided with unclassified biometric presentation attack methods to test on by the government. Individual teams will only be selected to participate in one of the two components (either Thor or Loki) due to the red team evaluation model.Odin is anticipated as a three-phase program, with performers making attempts on multiple modalities. The first phase is anticipated to focus on producing prototypes primarily capable of detecting known approaches. The second phase will focus on the ability to detect unknown approaches, and the third phase will require ability to operate at operationally relevant FAR/TDR rates.More information on Loki is available in a classified addendum to this announcement which can be obtained by submitting a request to dni-iarpa-baa-16-05@iarpa.gov
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