NIST unveils guidelines to help spot face morphing attempts

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published new guidelines it claims will help organizations optimize their efforts to detect face morphing software.

Face morphing is a type of deepfake technology that enables threat actors to blend the photos of two people into a single image. In doing so, it simplifies identity fraud by tricking face recognition systems into erroneously identifying an image as belonging to both original individuals.

In this way, individual A can assume the identity of individual B and vice versa, NIST said.

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