FaceVACS Performance
Leading the industry
Various tests by independent organizations have demonstrated that
Cognitec's face recognition technology is industry-leading in terms of
recognition accuracy and speed.
FRVT 2002: At the Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002, conducted by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Cognitec's face
recognition software exhibited the best performance among all
participants for large-scale verification, identification, as well as
watch list scenarios.
FRVT 2006: The Face Recognition Vendor Test 2006, again conducted by
NIST, confirmed the outstanding performance of Cognitec's
technology. Of 22 companies and research institutes, only Cognitec and
10 other participants could complete the large-scale tests, and only
Cognitec and one other company could deliver measurements in four
different test scenarios for still images and 2D/3D data.
The results also demonstrated that Cognitec exceeded the goal
specified by the preceding so-called Face Recognition Grand Challenge,
or FRGC, which was to prove increased recognition performance by an
order of magnitude as compared to results measured during FRVT
2002. Cognitec again delivered top performance in the majority of the
tests, especially with regard to common real-world scenarios (low
resolution imagery).
MBE 2010: The latest NIST test, conducted in 2010, consists of three
parts, of which only the results of the first part, MBE-STILL, have
been published so far. MBE-STILL measured and compared the recognition performance of face recognition algorithms on still images.
Seven companies and three research institutes participated in the
MBE-STILL evaluation. Cognitec again delivered excellent performance
in all the tests, especially in the more challenging tests that
reflect common real-world scenarios like searching through very large
photo databases of passport or drivers' license authorities. In the
open-set identification tests, the most relevant test for those challenging applications, Cognitec's algorithm had the best performance at the lowest false alarm levels, which corresponds to the appropriate operational setting in case of a multi-million gallery and limited resources for visual inspection.
Disclaimer: FRVT and MBE results do not constitute endorsement of any
particular system by the U.S. Government. Download complete test results at face.nist.gov.
Present performance
Our current algorithm B6T8 is an improved version of the algorithm
submitted to the MBE-STILL test. See the latest performance results in the Grayscale FERET 'Duplicate I' test.
Cognitec's algorithms are NOT optimized or trained on databases used for tests, like the FERET database. Training and optimization are performed on internal proprietary databases which do not contain data from test databases. Consequently, Cognitec's test results can be generalized to similar unknown set of data.