Cognitec – Developing trusted face recognition technologies since 2002

With increasing accuracy and speed, face recognition technology has established its effectiveness in preventing ID fraud and supporting criminal investigations. Use cases have broadened to include investigation of recorded video materials, real-time video screening for security measures, and the analysis of faces in images and videos for underage detection, people analytics, and crowd/people flow management.

Suspect investigations with automated person searches in video footage

Crime investigators are receiving increasing quantities of photo and film material from a variety of sources, ranging from grainy CCTV footage to high-resolution movies and images. Most police agencies are still relying on human eyes to find suspects in videos, or to connect identities found in different media.

Cognitec's FaceVACS-DBScan LE technology greatly reduces the time and money spent on such investigations. Hours in manual viewing can shrink to a few minutes of analyzing automated search results.

The technology imports still images and video material, finds all faces, and clusters the appearances of the same person, even across multiple media files, and tracks their times and locations.

Investigators can open the original video material, and find persons near the subject who might be connected to the crime. A click on another face produces all appearances of this person and opens new search paths.
 
Any image of a face, regardless of its origin, can be selected for comparison against facial image databases. The software produces a candidate list of possible matches, sorted by match probability.

Investigators can choose to work with smaller, local image databases for quick searches in videos and for instant candidate lists, but can also receive—within seconds—matches from central databases that store millions of images.

Furthermore, they can make use of various tools to inspect image pairs and determine their similarity. In accordance to laws and best practices, face recognition results have to be evaluated by human experts, and only serve as a supporting measure to other investigative methods.

Face recognition match results can quickly narrow down a search trail. Let Cognitec technology help you increase the speed and accuracy of criminal investigations!
 
Instant alerts for known people seen in live video streams

FaceVACS-VideoScan also applies Cognitec’s premier face recognition technology to compare faces to image databases and instantly find known individuals.

Surpassing traditional video surveillance systems, the software detects people’s faces in live video streams or video footage, and stores video sequences of cropped faces (face streams) for each appearance in front of a camera. The unique technology then compares all appearances against each other in real time to determine and cluster identities.

If the person is found in a database, the software pushes an instant alert with both the live image and the database image, stored metadata, and the camera location(s) where the person was seen.

Businesses and organizations can detect and prevent unwanted behavior in much faster and more efficient ways, as security staff can track individuals at the surveillance desk, or receive alerts on mobile devices to act within the immediate vicinity of a suspect.

On the other hand, FaceVACS-VideoScan can identify authorized individuals or high-ranking customers in real time. Positive authentication can prompt access to restricted areas or alert personnel to provide special treatment.

People analysis and crowd detection

Anonymous analysis of all face streams over time allows the software to compute people count, demographical information, people movement in time and space, and to detect frequent visitors and crowds.

For example, FaceVACS-VideoScan can achieve a highly accurate person count, since a person seen once will be re-recognized and therefore not counted again. Operators can also receive an alarm if too many people gather in a specific area and measure waiting times to direct traffic. The analysis of traffic patterns and crowd incidents can help businesses create safer operating environments.
The software is used by casinos and clubs worldwide to detect underage patrons and self-excluded gamblers. It also alerts security staff to visitors who have stayed too long on premise.

The trusted face recognition company

Cognitec is the only company worldwide that has worked exclusively on face recognition technology since its inception in 2002. Experiencing steady growth at business locations in Dresden, Boston and Sydney, the company is proud to maintain a stable, market-leading position within the industry, and to uphold the trust it has gained as a reliable, experienced provider of biometric technologies.

Various independent evaluation tests have proven the premier performance of the FaceVACS® software. Cognitec’s portfolio includes products for facial image database search, recorded video investigation, real-time video screening and people analytics, border control, and biometric photo capturing.

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