IndiaAI launches face authentication challenge under IADA

New Delhi: IndiaAI, an Independent Business Division (IBD) under the Digital India Corporation (DIC) of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), has launched the IndiaAI Face Authentication Challenge, as part of the IndiaAI Application Development Initiative (IADI).

This challenge invites startups and companies to develop a highly accurate, secure, and scalable AI-enabled solution for image verification and application de-duplication.

The core objective is to leverage AI to strengthen the integrity of large-scale public examinations, ensuring a just, fair, and impartial merit-based selection of candidates, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said in a statement.

"Solutions should have cross-sectoral applicability for deployment across various government departments and State organisations," the statement said.

Participants in the Challenge must create an application that can use one-to-many matching techniques against applicant databases from the past to verify and de-duplicate photos.