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 changing border control applications, increasing the security of immigration processes and allowing self-service immigration. Face recognition in combination with ePassorts ensures secure and fast checking of travel documents and biometric verification of the passport holder's identity.

Cognitec offers essential face recognition components (as provided by FaceVACS-SDK) for customized integration into existing and future border control systems and eGates.

Also, captured images can be transfered to a video surveillance system (as provided by FaceVACS-VideoScan) and checked against a watch list of undesired immigrants in real-time.

International travel documents like ePassports/eVisas and national identity documents and driver's 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 applicant 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.

Take high-quality photos

Cognitec offers products to capture optimized ID photos and to check the images for requirements and standard compliance (ISO standard 19794-5 for facial image quality and similar standards).

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.

Face recognition is a highly efficient and accurate tool in investigation processes.

Please refer to FaceVACS-DBScan.

Police, intelligence, and military forces identifying suspects on the street using mobile devices. Cognitec's face recognition technology is used on handheld devices to capture a suspect photo and compared it to image databases on the device or on central systems connected through mobile networks.

Please refer to FaceVACS-SDK.

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-SDK.