NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, managed services and biometric solutions, along with NEC Corporation announced the release of its facial recognition algorithm that scored top honors in NIST FRVT 2013 testing. This latest NeoFace product release is available in law enforcement investigative and real-time surveillance solutions as well as NeoFace Match, a comprehensive facial recognition integration tool for solutions integrators and qualified customers.
The latest NeoFace release delivers proven and significant performance metrics in a variety of applications, including non-frontal facial images with partial angles, low-resolution images, improved identification in uncontrolled environments, and increased matching rates, especially to very large databases.
A summary of NeoFace's performance in the latest NIST benchmark includes:
- 28% improvement in accuracy in comparison to NeoFace's previous release
- 8 times fewer errors than the next highest performing algorithm
- NEC's face recognition algorithms were faster than all participating vendors
- Reduced the authentication error rate by 2/3 in "one-to-one" face matching tests
"Faced with ever-increasing threats, as well as the need for improved customer engagements and loss prevention, public safety agencies (such as law enforcement, border control, immigration) and enterprises around the world are increasingly turning to facial recognition, a highly reliable and accurate identification method," said Raffie Beroukhim, VP of the Biometrics Solutions Division at NEC Corporation of America. "With this release NEC remains committed to being the top biometrics solution provider for public safety and commercial applications, and is driven to deliver continued advances in facial recognition to our customers."
NEC offers a full range of facial recognition solutions built upon its award-winning NeoFace face recognition algorithms. In the realm of public safety, NeoFace algorithms are at the heart of NeoFace solutions. Using images and video evidence of varying quality, NeoFace Reveal enables law enforcement to investigate, solve crimes and bring more offenders to justice by accurately searching mug photo databases. For real-time surveillance applications, NeoFace allows for rapid and accurate searching of a known watch list, providing an alert when a face is detected. Border and immigration control, perimeter and office security as well as retail loss prevention are among the extensive use cases of NeoFace applications.