… on gender (male and female), race/ethnicity (Black, White, and Hispanic), and age group (18 to 30, 30 to 50, and 50 to 70 years old). Experimental results demonstrate that both commercial … many researchers believe the decreased performance on other races is explained by the “contact” hypothesis, which postulates that the lower performance on other races is due to a … on a subject’s demographic cohort [3]. Among other findings, this study demonstrated for com- mercial face recognition algorithms on a dataset containing roughly 120,000 images that (i) …