What is NeoFace?
What is NeoFace?
NeoFace is NEC’s high performance, highly scalable facial recognition algorithm, providing fast and accurate results for the most demanding real-time or post-event facial recognition use cases.
It’s designed to find a needle in a haystack, reducing a problem down to a much smaller review process. Built upon 40 years experience and world leading AI, it’s highly tolerant of ageing, angles, headwear and environmental factors such as lighting.
It performs consistently regardless of age, ethnicity and gender by combining the best feature-matching and AI technologies, It’s built-in safeguards support privacy and proportionate use, with auditing and reporting as well as automatic and manual data retention tools.
Why use Facial Recognition?
Facial recognition software can help your force save lives, protect people and speed up investigations.
Keeping the public safe
By locating dangerous or vulnerable people in a fraction of the time, facial recognition software can reduce the chance of further offences and help to keep the public safe.
Reducing risk to officers
Facial recognition software can warn officers in advance by identifying known violent offenders.
Focuses resources effectively
Facial recognition can speed up response times and cut significant amounts of manual work from investigations, which your force can reallocate to other investigations.
The main use cases of facial recognition in policing
WHY CHOOSE NEOFACE?
Our technology has been independently proven by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the fastest and most accurate in the world
It has also been proven by NIST as one of the most consistently equitable facial recognition softwares on the market across various demographics
Age gap and database size has next to no impact on accuracy, ensuring future-proofed performance – helping you to confidently keep your community safe
It’s got built-in privacy features to enable you to comply with UK’s laws and regulations
We’re guided by NEC’s long-established principles around biometrics and AI which encourages ethical, proportionate and targeted use
We work closely with many UK forces to advance the use of facial recognition in the UK
It enjoys constant investment from NEC’s global biometrics team and benefits from real-world deployment across 57 countries
Its UK deployment is guided by our policing and public safety experts who’ve developed and deployed a range of solutions
Feedback from forces is incorporated into future versions of NeoFace solutions to continuously improve and expand on its capabilities
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