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What is facial recognition?

facial recognitionLike all biometrics solutions, facial recognition technology measures and matches the unique characteristics for the purposes of identification or authentication. Often leveraging a digital or connected camera, facial recognition software can detect faces in images, quantify their features, and then match them against stored templates in a database.

Face-scanning biometric tech is incredibly versatile and this is reflected in its wide range of potential applications.

Where do I find facial recognition?

Face biometrics have the potential to be integrated anywhere you can find a modern camera.

A growing number of law enforcement agencies around the world are using biometric software to scan faces in CCTV footage, as well as to identify persons of interest in the field. Border authorities, meanwhile, are increasingly using facial recognition to verify the identities of travelers, especially at airports.

And in the mobile sector, face-scanning systems have become a hugely popular means of unlocking smartphones – as can be seen in Apple’s pioneering Face ID system on its newer iPhones – as well as verifying payments and signing into mobile apps.

How is facial recognition making a difference?

While controversy has emerged over how law enforcement authorities use facial recognition, many police officials have argued that the technology helps them to fight crime, and it can also be used to identify missing persons and the victims of human trafficking.

Meanwhile, as a contactless biometric solution that’s easy to deploy in consumer devices, face recognition is showing the public just how convenient strong authentication can be.

Facial recognition doesn’t just deal with hard identities, but also has the ability to gather demographic data on crowds. This has made face biometrics solutions increasingly sought after in the retail marketing industry.

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Read on to meet the leading providers of Facial Recognition solutions.

NEC has been at the forefront of defining leading-edge biometric identification solutions for over 40 years. NEC’s identification technologies include finger/palm print, DNA and face recognition solutions. NEC has developed some of the world’s largest and most complex identification infrastructure projects for government and law enforcement. Our mission is to help government and businesses use technology to build a safer environment for life and work. Products & Services: Fingerprint Readers, Mobile Biometrics, Facial Recognition, Justice/Law Enforcement, Financial, Border Control/Airports, Healthcare Biometrics, Multi-modal Biometrics, Logical Access Control, Physical Access Control

With its secunet border gears product portfolio and specialised consulting expertise, secunet supports police forces and security authorities in their sovereign tasks. Whether ABC gates, self-service kiosks or biometric middleware – each component helps to strengthen identity protection and to accelerate verification – in mobile and stationary scenarios.Products & Services: Border Control/Airports,Mobile Biometrics,Facial Recognition,,Justice/Law Enforcement,Fingerprint, Facial.

IDEMIA is the global leader in Augmented Identity for an increasingly digital world, with the ambition to empower citizens and consumers alike to interact, pay, connect, travel and vote in ways that are now possible in a connected environment. Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect this asset, whether for individuals or for objects. We ensure privacy and trust as well as guarantee secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Public Security and IoT sectors. Product & Services: Fingerprint, Facial, Iris, Healthcare, Border Control/Airports, Financial, Justice/ Law Enforcement, Logical Access, Physical Access, Smartcards, Time & Attendance.

FacePhi provides secure, fast, and easy to use technology. Experts in users’ digital identity verification, they specialise in digital onboarding and biometric authentication solutions. With the aim of creating a more secure, accessible and fraud-free digital process; FacePhi is committed to innovate with artificial intelligence and machine learning, applying blockchain technology.

Aware is a leading global provider of software products and solutions for biometric identification and authentication. They are used for variety of applications including financial services, enterprise security, border management, and law enforcement. Aware has the largest portfolio of biometric software products and solutions and a broad selection of biometric modalities. Products & services: Fingerprint Readers, Middleware / Software, Justice / Law Enforcement, Facial Recognition, Border Control/Airports

AU10TIX, an identity management company headquartered in Israel, provides critical, modular solutions to link physical and digital identities so that companies and their customers can confidently connect. Products & Services: Facial Recognition, Multimodal Biometrics, Financial Biometrics, Mobile Biometrics

Aratek boasts of millions of installations worldwide. It is at the very forefront of harnessing the power of biometric technology to help governments, law enforcement agencies, banks, retailers and other enterprises mitigate risk, drive productivity and improve service levels. Our solutions are known to make a real difference, being the result of intensive consultation with experts, active listening to customers, and the application of advanced biometrics technologies. Products & Services: Facial Recognition, Fingerprint Readers, Financial, Mobile Biometrics

Paravision provides face recognition SDKs for enterprises and system & device integrators who need mission-critical face recognition that excels at accuracy, provides superior levels of security, and can be deployed in any environment. Ever AI’s face recognition algorithm excels across challenging scenarios including light & angle variability, blur & pixelation, racial and ethnic diversity, and occlusions. Products & Services: Facial Recognition, Financial, Consumer/Residential, Biometric Security

FaceTec provides the most secure, highest-rated Liveness Detection and 3D Face Matching biometric AI, enabling true secure passwordless user authentication from any device. FaceTec’s software is deployed through device SDKs and a server SDK to provide a complete authentication platform with the customers’ user data encrypted behind their own firewalls. A patented UI and developer tools easily integrate into any app or web page, allowing hundreds of organizations on six continents to use FaceTec’s AI to authenticate tens-of-millions of users and provide new account onboarding and ongoing access to banks, financial and government institutions, telecoms, ecommerce, blockchain, social networks, and more. Products & Services: Facial Recognition, Financial, Healthcare, Mobile

IDmission combines standards compliant security, passive liveness detection, and industry expertise to validate identities and provide frictionless workflows. Invisible by design, it applies biometric science to create secure solutions that do not get in the way of doing business. Products & Services: Facial Recognition, Multimodal Biometrics, Biometric Security, Financial Biometrics

Onfido is building the new identity standard for the internet.Our AI-based technology assesses whether a user’s government-issued ID is genuine or fraudulent, and then compares it against their facial biometrics. That’s how we give companies like Revolut, Zipcar and Bitstamp the assurance they need to onboard customers remotely and securely. Our mission is to create a more open world, where identity is the key to access. For more information, please visit www.onfido.com. Products & Services: Biometrics Security, Financial, Mobile Biometrics, Facial Recognition

Jumio uses the power of AI, face-based biometrics, machine learning and certified liveness detection to help you rapidly convert more customers, stop fraudsters from infiltrating your online ecosystem and get in compliance with KYC/AML. With Jumio, identity proofing and eKYC is as simple as taking a selfie. Producst & Services: Facial, Financial, Healthcare

Daon® has been the most trusted name in biometric-based identity verification and authentication for more than two decades, chosen to secure over a billion identities around the globe, and trusted by iconic brands like American Airlines, BNP Paribas, Carnival, Experian, Hyatt, NatWest Group, and PNC. Visit us at daon.com.