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.
Learn More About NeoFaceWhy use Facial Recognition?
Facial recognition software can help your force save lives, protect people and speed up investigations.
Keep 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.
Reduce risk to officers
Facial recognition software can warn officers in advance by identifying known violent offenders.
Focus 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.
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 software 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
Retrospective Facial Recognition
Identify individuals post event from images or videos by submitting an image or a video in to the system. It is matched against all subject images in your reference image gallery where a set of ranked candidates are returned to an officer for human adjudication.
Using retrospective facial recognition can save your force significant time and resources in the following investigations:
- Cold Case Identification
- Missing or vulnerable individuals
- Human Trafficking
- County Lines
- Wanted Individual
- Serious organised crime
Operator initiated facial recognition
Operator initiated facial recognition
Use the facial recognition mobile app to take a picture of an individual and identify them on the go. This could be used for the victim of a car accident, an individual wanted for serious or violent crimes, to check if an individual has been reported missing or simply confirm someone’s identity.
Using operator initiated facial recognition can save your force significant time and resources in the following situations:
- Identifying the victim of a car accident
- Identifying an individual for a violent crime
- Identifying a reported missing person
- Identifying a vulnerable individual and assign additional care or support as needed
Live Facial Recognition
Identify vulnerable or wanted individuals in real-time with live facial recognition. By connecting our facial recognition solution to a camera, you can identify vulnerable individuals as quickly as possible to give them the help they need and arrest wanted individuals before they commit further crimes.
Using live facial recognition can save your force significant time and resources in the following investigations:
- Missing or vulnerable individuals
- Wanted Individuals
- Custody Suite
- Border Security and Contactless Travel
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