Applications for security

There is a fast growing demand from government, law enforcement, retail and industry customers for solutions to identify persons from live video cameras or video footage. Cognitec has addressed this demand by offering products that are optimized for the analysis of video streams, in order to detect, locate, track, and identify faces by real-time comparison to watch list databases.

Please refer to FaceVACS-VideoScan.

The worldwide deployment of electronic travel documents like ePassports are revolutionizing Border Control Applications.

Not only that Border Control Officers will be supported by tools increasing the security of immigration processes, but also full self-service immigration using  ePassports and face recognition is now possible.

Face recognition in combination with ePassorts ensures secure checking of travel documents and biometric verification of the identity of the passport holder. Automatic and semi-automatic identity verification allows for new generation of secure, streamlined and cost efficient immigration processes.

Cognitec offers essential components that allow fully customized integration into existing and future border control systems.

By using the FaceVACS-CaptureUnit product, passengers' biometric traits will be captured automatically and passenger-friendly.  The captured images are of  best quality and can be passed on to a verification unit (as provided by FaceVACS-SDK) to be verified against the digital image read from the ePassport of the passenger.  Also, the captured image can be passed on to a video surveillance system (as provided by FaceVACS-VideoScan) and checked against a watch list of undesired immigrants (e.g. terrorists) in real-time.

International travel documents like ePassports, eVisas as well as national identity documents and drivers' licenses represent essential prerequisites for national security. Photo-ID documents are also used by private enterprises, health insurance organisations, and more.

Prevent ID fraud

Issuing agencies have to make sure that applicants cannot gain ID documents that enable a 'second identity'. Checking applicants photos by facial appearance helps to minimize such fraudulent attacks. FaceVACS-DBScan is an answer to the challenge of finding duplicate faces in large photo databases, and is ready for integration into existing issuing processes.

Furthermore, there are certain requirements related to the quality of images to be used in combination with Photo-ID documents. 

Use high-quality photos

Cognitec offers products to assure optimized capturing of photos as well as to check if images meet the requirements for the respective Photo-ID document. An important part of this is a tool to check compliance with the ISO standard 19794-5 for facial image quality.

Please refer to FaceVACS-PortraitAcquisition

Similar to a fingerprint search (AFIS) system, face recognition technology can assist law enforcement agencies to identify suspects. Whenever a photograph or video footage of a suspect is available, the images can be compared to image databases of known criminals and show the most similar faces (match list).

Similarly, the system can be applied to missing persons.

This capability has turned out to be a very useful tool in the investigation process.

Please refer to FaceVACS-DBScan

Identifying suspects on the street by mobile devices has become a requirement by police, intelligence, and military forces. Cognitec's face recognition technology has been made available on haldheld devices so that a photo of a suspect can be captured and compared to image databases on the device as well as on central systems connected through mobile networks.

Please refer to FaceVACS-SDK / Mobile

Access to buildings, office space, stadiums, and other locations can be made more secure by authenticating authorized persons using face recognition. This is an example of a 1:1 verification application where the image captured by a camera is compared to the image stored for the authorized person. The same method can be used for access to airplanes, ferries, cruise ships, etc.

Please refer to FaceVACS-Sentry.