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Facial Recognition

Facial recognition software solutions are commercially available to fulfil a wide range of applications; from gender and age range identification for real-time retail and marketing activities, to biometric facial recognition technologies able to capture and compare live images for applications in airports, banks, casinos and law enforcement.

In the retail sector and any customer service activity a facial recognition system can be deployed to identify the gender and age range in order to carry out market analysis, capture the demographics of those who enter, and provide the capability to deliver relevant advertisements in a targeted manner. Please contact us to discuss this retail facial recognition system and have a demonstration of the various technology solutions.

 

Biometric facial recognition

In a casino, airport or other environments a biometric facial recognition system enables the staff to respond to identified individuals and respond in an appropriate manner. Loss prevention departments are also employing facial recognition systems to identify known offenders or to register suspects and have the ability to automatically compare the images with watch lists in order that the appropriate action can be taken. These real-time facial recognition systems are able to identify individuals from incoming camera streams and when the system identifies a match, immediately send an alert to the system administrator as determined. Many applications will utilise fixed cameras to capture the images of individuals, however images can also be captured using a digital camera or mobile phone and dynamically checked against specific databases.   Wavestore DVR recorders can be integrated with one of the most powerful facial recognition system available on the market: the FaceFirst technology. This integration increase notably the performance offered by the facial recognition system, providing to the end user, not only a static image of the detected person, but also few seconds of live footage that can help the security personnel to identify the subject.

 

 

1 million facial comparisons per second

FaceFirst is the most advanced military-grade biometric facial identification able to instantly recognize faces and provides accurate identification, based on information collected in a vast central database.

FaceFirst supports multiple face recognition algorithms and can reach up to 1 million facial comparisons per second and operate up to 30 meters from subject. This powerful facial recognition system scans crowds entering the monitored facility and identifies individuals with prior arrest records, suspects, VIPs, and employees on watch lists. When a match has been verified, the FaceFirst system instantly delivers the photo of the match, along with all database information about the person in question, to a specific recipient. Alerts can be sent by: email, SMS, MMS, log-only, or other devices.

Individual faces can be enrolled into the database from previous digital records or captured in real time from digital video cameras, SLR cameras with a wireless card, or from a smart phone. Using FaceFirst web portal, it is also possible to subscribe to specific watch lists, easily add and edit individual records, run reports and configure alerting preferences.

 

A facial recognition system locally centred or in the cloud The FaceFirst technology requires minimal equipment to be installed at each site. Detected facial information is routed in near real time to a centrally located data centre, or to the FaceFirst engine in the cloud that handles the recognition computing process. The FaceFirst engine in the cloud supports extremely high throughput and is designed on an infinitely scalable platform running on commodity hardware. The complete cloud hosting services enable FaceFirst to offer affordable face recognition as a service.
A mobile facial recognition system FaceFirst has mobile Apps for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, and Windows mobile platforms. Using a Java based client-server architecture the FaceFirst API runs identifications against large-scale watch lists, delivering match probability, face images and database records to mobile devices in a quick transaction. Security staff can use mobile phones to take pictures of suspects and send them to the FaceFirst system for a database match. Biometric enrolment is also available on mobile phones.

 

The facial recognition process

STEP 1-Enrolling facial images into the database
Photographs or videos from the company's files and/or the subscribed public databases are uploaded onto FaceFirst secure web portal. The system locates the position and size of the face and the centres of the eyes and records the captured data.

STEP 2-Matching
When an individual stands in front of the FaceFirst camera, it instantly communicates with the tracking server. The software locates and measures the size of the face and the centre of the eyes. The image of each face is scaled and rotated to position the eyes in predefined locations and readability adjustments are made. Distinguishing features, such as the length of the nose and width of the mouth, are extracted to create a unique record which is compared to all the unique records in the FaceFirst database. If the software cannot verify a match automatically due to poor image quality, the software optionally routes the captured faces to the FaceFirst Operator Center module which allows an operator to easily confirm or reject the match.

STEP 3-Alerts
When a match is found, alerts are instantly sent to smart phones, computers, or other devices. Alert preferences can be easily customised to route alerts to specific devices, set specific schedules, add records and run reports.

The FaceFirst Architecture

 

 

 

The FaceFirst main features

Accurate
FaceFirst software has the lowest error rates of all facial recognition systems: with an identification rate of more than 0.95 and it has been rated number one by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's Face Recognition Vendor Test.

Powerful
Security staff can email snapshots from smart phone of suspected lawbreakers to FaceFirst and receive an instant photo match with all known data.

Customized
Watch lists are available for customised security needs, including law enforcement, police and FBI wanted lists, but also of other companies in the FaceFirst network who have agreed to share information. Using FaceFirst secure web portal, customise individual records and run reports is a simple procedure.

User-Friendly
FaceFirst is a plug and play camera and software system that connects instantly online. There is no technical jargon to learn and no training needed to operate.

 

Contact us to discuss your facial recognition requirements and the opportunity of a live demonstration.