PC-based face recognition summary

Content of this page:

• Overview
• The technology
• The SDK

Overview

Facial identification software becomes more and more popular in various applications and systems, including PC logon, employee access and attendance control, customer management systems. This kind of biomerical identification offers convenience for end-users together with decent identification reliability and speed of identification.

A face identification system can be designed using:

1. a common PC, that offers enough capabilities to perform fast facial recognition and matching,
2. a camera or webcam, that can be obtained for an affordable price,
3. software, which can be rapidly developed using a face identification SDK with all necessary technologies, algorithms and interfaces included.

Once the software is developed, the system can be scaled up by adding more PCs, cameras and obtaining additional technology licenses.

Neurotechnology offers face identification technology and SDKs that offer the needed performance and reliability for a reasonable price.

The technology

VeriLook technology assures system performance with fast matching (up to 100,000 faces per second) and reliable face recognition. The technology contains these proprietary algorithmic solutions:

• live face detection for determining whether a face in a video stream belongs to a real human or is a photo;
• multiple face localization in live video streams and still images;
• simultaneous multiple face processing and identification in single frame;
• identification (1:N) ability;
• features generalization for even more reliable identification;
• compact template (2.3 Kbytes) that allows to handle large databases.

Algorithm demo application is available for downloading.

Read more about the technology.

The SDK

VeriLook SDK is based on the VeriLook facial recognition technology and is intended for biometric systems developers and integrators. It allows easy integration and rapid development of biometric applications using functionality from the VeriLook algorithm, which ensures high reliability of the face identification, 1:1 and 1:N matching modes and comparison speeds of up to 100,000 faces per second. The integrator has complete control over SDK data input and output.

VeriLook SDK supports Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The following types of SDK are available:

• VeriLook 3.2 Standard SDK is intended for PC-based biometrical application development. It includes Matcher and Extractor components, programming samples and tutorials, camera manager software and software documentation. The SDK allows the development of biometric applications for Microsoft Windows, Linux or Mac OS X operating systems.
• VeriLook 3.2 Extended SDK is intended for rapid development of biometrical Web-based and network applications. It includes all features of Standard SDK. Additionally, the SDK contains sample client applications, tutorials and a ready-to-use matching server.