Nortek Security & Control’s ELAN intelligent video doorbell delivers automatic and authentic movement-based notifications of someone approaching the door.
IntelliVision Technologies Corp.’s latest version of its facial recognition technology now runs as a cloud-based service as well as on edge devices and on-premise servers.
At the Lockport City School District in Lockport, N.Y., the surveillance system is being upgraded to a facial recognition system that will check each face against a database of “expelled students, sex offenders and other possible troublemakers,” according to an article by Associated Press that was picked up the week of July 22 by several media outlets, among them FoxNews.com.
The solution incorporates neural networks and deep learning to imitate a human’s ability to recognize. This approach allows the technology to adapt to and learn from new situations, similar to how the human brain operates.
Los Angeles Airport is trialing an advanced biometric self-boarding solution by Vision-Box to clear travelers flying out of the U.S. in a contactless, quick and secure way. The new passenger flow solution allows travelers to board their aircraft in just a few seconds simply by looking into a high-resolution face capture system at the flow-control gateway.
A paper to appear at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops 2017 introduced a framework for performing facial recognition of partially covered or disguised faces, such as those of protesters who wear masks and scarves to hide their identity.
According to an article in the UK publication Retail Gazette, retailers across the UK are increasingly adopting facial recognition software that captures shoppers’ ages, genders, and shopping history.
LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, has recently published its 2017 IR LED/IR Laser and Optical Sensor Market Report. In the report, LEDinside states that that the global market scale of IR LED and IR laser components used in iris and facial recognition solutions will grow from $145 million in 2017 to $827 million in 2025.