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, and real-time video screening for security measures.

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. 
 
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.

The trusted face recognition company

Cognitec is the only company worldwide that has worked exclusively on face recognition technology since its inception in 2002. 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.

For more information, please send us an e-mail via sales-emea@cognitec.com or visit our website at www.cognitec.com.