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Volume 15
performed by the National Institute of Standards
and Technology for the fourth consecutive time.
Public safety is a growing problem all over the
world – and requires key enabling technologies
that promote information sharing and open com-
munication among public safety agencies.
August 2017 Edition
This is because images are greatly influenced by
environmental conditions, such as camera loca-
tion, image quality, lighting and subject size, in
addition to the behavior of a subject, including
walking speed, face direction and sight line.
NEC’s Video Face Recognition Technology
(NEC, the World’s No. 1 Face Recognition Solution, Neo-
Face. Courtesy of NEC Corporation and YouTube)
Biometric identification – through fingerprint, vein
or facial recognition – is the fastest and most ac-
curate way to promote public safety (and prevent
crime) without sacrificing service levels for citi-
zens.
Video face recognition technology iden-
tifies the faces of moving subjects in
real-time as they walk naturally without
stopping in front of a camera.
The benefits of high-speed video analysis en-
abled by this technology include the prevention
of potential incidents through detection of suspi-
cious individuals and recognition of individuals at
the gateways of critical facilities.
Using video images from standard cameras for
face recognition requires highly-advanced tech-
niques when compared to still images.
To achieve reliable face recognition of a video
image, NEC developed feature point extrac-
tion technology that:
• Enables enhanced face recognition to a level
where an individual can be identified with high
precision from within a group
• Even if their face is partially hidden
• Or the image is taken from different angles
NEC’s face recognition technology also uses
deep learning technologies for face matching to
increase accuracy to a level where an individual
can be identified by a low resolution face image
captured by a distant camera.
NeoFace Express with high throughput
capabilities serves demanding environ-
ments with large crowds of people.
NEC’s highly accurate and scalable NeoFace
facial recognition technologies enable NeoFace
Express to eliminate long queues and improve
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