THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER 'WE ARE LEGION, FOR WE ARE MANY' IS COMING… And There Will Be Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide With New 'Whole-Body Biometric Recognition System' Michigan State University researchers received a $12 million, four-year federal grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, under its Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range, or BRIAR, program. The IARPA BRIAR program is a 48-month effort to deliver end-to-end software systems capable of detecting individuals at severe imaging conditions, extracting biometric signatures from the whole-body (such as an individual’s gait and/or body shape) and face, and fusing biometric information for robust multi-modal matching. The MSU project entitled “Physics-driven Modeling and Learning for Person Recognition at a Distance and Altitude” is led by Xiaoming Liu, an MSU Research Foundation Professor; Arun Ross, Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor; and Anil Jain, a University Distinguished Professor — all in the College of Engineering https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/msu-researchers-receive-12-million-grant-for-drone-biometric-recognition-system#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20were%20surprised%20to%20learn,long%20distance%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Liu