At this year’s ISC West, CyberLink displayed FaceMe, their cutting-edge facial recognition engine. During the show, CyberLink spoke with asmag.com on what makes FaceMe unique and how it can benefit a wide range of vertical markets.
At this year’s ISC West, several Taiwanese companies exhibited. One of them was CyberLink, which displayed FaceMe, their cutting-edge facial recognition engine. During the show, CyberLink spoke with asmag.com on what makes FaceMe unique and how it can benefit a wide range of vertical markets.
CyberLink, founded in 1996, is a premier multimedia software and AI facial recognition solutions provider. Their years of research in the fields of artificial intelligence and facial recognition has come to fruition in FaceMe, their facial recognition engine. Powered by deep learning algorithms, FaceMe delivers reliable, high-precision, and real-time facial recognition that is critical in AIoT applications.
FaceMe is easily installed and works with a number of major VMSes in the market. Enrollment is fast as user images can be uploaded in batches. The engine also boasts high accuracy – 99.83 percent, to be exact.
“This is NIST rating, not my rating. This is NIST that does this rating every year. When you're getting to be close to 99 percent you start to see real value in capturing people's faces. Because I know who you are. I'm not guessing. I'm not 70 or 80 percent like most of the other facial recognition engines, we're 99.83 percent. So when we do access control, I know only the right people are getting in this building,” said Terry Schulenburg, VP of Business Development at Cyberlink. “I have very large enterprise customers with 1000s of doors, and they use it for their employees so as to protect them, to keep them safe. When we fire somebody, they're not getting back in the building.”
Cutting-edge applications
But it’s the applications that make FaceMe truly stand out. The software can benefit users in a variety of verticals, including government facilities and prisons. “The prisons are using this for years. They've had wristbands on the prisoners. Every night they have to check them into their cell. To do that, they would have to get really close and scan their badge. Well, now they're using their phone. I can hold my phone 10 feet away from you. Say, okay, yep, that's who it is. So they're able to do all of this without ever coming in contact with prisoners. It's much more safe,” Schulenburg said.
Sports centers, malls and fairgrounds can also benefit, especially when kids get lost. “I'm using this at malls to find people within the facility. This fairground in Maryland has 365 cameras. You have 400,000 people at the fairground throughout the summer, and somebody gets lost. It used to be a long process trying to find somebody. Now they're finding lost children in less than five minutes,” Schulenburg noted.
In a similar vein, FaceMe can be used in retirement homes to ensure the safety of elderly residents. “You're familiar with dementia. So when you have assisted living facilities where people have dementia and they're leaving the facility, and they're supposed to be escorted, they get a notice immediately. Wait – this person just left. He's not supposed to be going out by himself. Somebody go help them before they get lost. So we're starting to see some of that,” Schulenburg said.
Aside from security and safety, FaceMe can also be a great time and attendance tool. “I have Peru using this in their picking fields. They create a gateway out in the field so that we're out where I'm picking coffee or I'm picking grapefruit, there’s a big arch out in the field with cameras on it. Everybody who comes to work walks through the arch. We check them in. When they leave at the end of the day, they walk out of the arch, and we check them out. They're able to check in 1,200 people in under five minutes. They've never been able to check in 1,200 people in under five minutes by tapping badges or scanning or doing the other things,” Schulenburg said.
Repeated Stranger Alert
According to Schulenburg, CyberLink added some AI to their tool this year that is really powerful. Called Repeated Stranger Alert, this feature can detect abnormal patterns and send alerts accordingly.
“In a military base, for example, there are people interested in sneaking onto a base, maybe to steal something or to gather some data or information. Our software would recognize you as a stranger and that you've been in this facility three times this week, around the same time, and we'd send an alert to our security office saying, listen, this person has been here multiple times this week. We'd put you on our black list. So the next time you came, we would get an instant notice. We would come out and talk with you and say, hey, you know we noticed you've been hanging out here. Can I help you with anything?” Schulenburg said. “We can see patterns of strangers visiting at certain points in time and throughout the day. There's a number of places that are really interested in using it.”