India, Oct. 15 -- IndiaAI Mission has invited Indian startups and companies to build a scalable AI-powered facial recognition tool to bolster integrity of public examinations.

Part of IndiaAI Mission's "face authentication challenge", the project will offer a two-year contract and up to INR 1 Cr for the top two teams for final solution deployment. Another ten shortlisted teams will receive INR 5 Lakhs each to refine and test their solutions on a sample dataset.

"This solution must perform photo verification and de-duplication by cross-referencing new applications against a historical database using one-to-many matching techniques. The high volume of applications and the risk of duplicate registrations necessitate a reliable, end-to-end ...