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What is facial recognition technology?

Facial recognition systems are built on computer programs that analyze images of human faces for the purpose of identifying them. The programs take a facial image, measure characteristics such as the distance between the eyes, the length of the nose, and the angle of the jaw, and create a unique file called a "template." Using templates, the software then compares that image with another image and produces a score that measures how similar the images are to each other. Typical sources of images for use in facial recognition include video camera signals and pre-existing photos such as those in driver's license.

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General

Name some of the areas of application of Facial Recognition Technology?
Can I get an evaluation version?
How much do FaceTrack products cost?
What is a good image for FaceTrack?

FaceTrack - Access Control System

Which camera do you recommend?
How many images are required for enrollment?
Can I use photographs printed on existing ID-Cards?
How many persons can be enrolled?
How fast can a match list can be determined if the gallery is 3m persons in size?
How many client stations can be connected?

How does the product integrate into DVR systems?
Can I enroll persons from live video stream?

 

 

 

 

General - FAQ

 

Name some of the areas of application of Facial Recognition Technology?

  • Airports
  • Corporate and business houses
  • ATM's
  • Border Control
  • Government offices
  • Polling booths
  • Driver's License


Can I get an evaluation version of FaceTrack?

Yes, the evaluation version will be time limited and may have additional restrictions. We will charge you a handling fee.


How much do FaceTrack products costs?

We maintain a price list that considers several parameters, like number of stations, number of enrollees, etc. Please contact our sales department regarding pricing of your preferred product applied in your specific environment.

What is a good image for FaceTrack?
FaceTrack technology can handle various images deviating from an optimal image. For facial recognition, an optimal image is an image that shows a face completely visible at a frontal view, almost covering the whole image. Both eyes are clearly visible, i.e. no dark sunglasses and no hair covering the eyes. The face is shown in a neutral gesture without strong shadows and at homogenous lighting. Image resolution and contrast are reasonable, i.e. a 240 x 320 (WxH) image with 8bit in greyscale coding is fine.

 

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FaceTrack - Access Control System - FAQ

 

Which camera do you recommend?
We support cameras that are accessible either via DirectShow on Windows platform or Video for Linux on Linux platform. We have experience in integrating all kinds of cameras like CCTV cameras via frame grabbers, USB, Firewire and network cameras. USB cameras are easiest to integrate and work fine, therefore one of our preferred cameras is the Philips To UCam.

 

Can I use photographs printed on existing ID-Cards?
Your existing photographs may be of good quality and can therefore be reused for facial recognition. Although we mostly found that the image quality is not sufficient enough and taking new images and enroll from the real person does not require significantly more effort than taking images from existing cards.

 

How many images are required for enrollment?
You can stick to one if it is a good frontal snapshot of the person. Taking multiple images increases the enrollment quality and therefore increases the overall performance. We have made good experiences with taking five images for enrollment. More than 10 images won't increase the enrollment quality anymore.


How many persons can be enrolled?

Our strategic partners alliance has the largest installation at present covers 3.5m persons. There hasn't been any bottlenecks yet and expect the software to scale to almost every gallery size w/o compromising the response time.


How fast can a match list be determined if the gallery is 3m persons in size?

You'll get a response within three seconds, assuming you use a computing cluster of about 10 standard Pentium 4 PC's.


How many client stations can be connected?

The technical limitation goes back to the number of established tcp/ip connection the operating system can serve on the computer where the so called master server is running. Typical installation of about 10 client stations will work fine.


How does the product integrate into DVR systems?

It is on the feature list and will be available in upcoming versions.


Can I enroll persons from a live video stream?

This is available for FaceTrack-Access Control Systems and is on the feature list and will be available in upcoming versions for the other products.

 

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