Expanding on the BRIAR Dataset: A Comprehensive Whole Body Biometric Recognition Resource at Extreme Distances and Real-World Scenarios (Collections 1-4)

Subjects in figures have consented to appearing in publications. The Biometric Recognition at Altitude and Range (BRIAR) Program is a US Government sponsored initiative to advance the state of the art of biometric recognition under military-grade and specialized cameras at ranges up to 1,000-challenging conditions. The overarching goal is to develop m, at view angles up to 50, and during both constrained and end-to-end software systems capable of overcoming severe unconstrained imaging scenarios. Model development and atmospheric distortion and difficult imaging conditions, perform testing is driven by continued expansion of the dataset and person detection and tracking, and fuse multi-modal efforts to improve its quality by refining collection, curation, data for effective biometric recognition. To enable the development, and annotation methods [4]. The addition of more diverse testing, and evaluation of these software systems, the data, both in terms of the demographics pool of its enrolled BRIAR Testing and Evaluation Team has gone great lengths subjects and the imaging conditions of the collection, will to build and extend a one-of-a-kind dataset of images and help to ensure that recognition models are equitable and video over the course of multiple data collection events.