We asked Sam Kljajic, a 20-plus-year worldwide veteran surveillance and security consultant in the gaming industry, six questions about facial recognition technology and what it means for the casino industry: 1. These are unique times, so let’s start there. What do...
How SAFR maintains accuracy in the age of COVID-19 By Eric Hess Senior Director of Product Management for Face Recognition & Security Solutions As we continue to adjust to social distancing mandates, more experts are now recommending wearing face masks as another...
For years, we’ve seen If you see something, say something posted throughout transit hubs, reminding us that during a security event, every second counts. It also reminds us that maintaining secure spaces is a joint effort. For the more than 25 million public and...
By Reza Rassool, CTO, RealNetworksWIRED recently highlighted unacceptable levels of bias in facial recognition in the article The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally. They cited the poor test scores of leading facial recognition vendors, as...
By Dan Grimm, GM and VP Computer Vision, RealNetworks July 19, 2019 The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducts an on-going battery of tests, known as the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT), to measure the key characteristics of...
Compared to cloud-only platforms, SAFR has a competitively lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Facial recognition industry Goliaths are no match for the strength of SAFR’s perfectly tuned algorithm — lightning-fast speed and high accuracy — and its edge processing...
By: Reza Rassool 5G is nearly here, already boldly transforming the way we interact with and consume media. Its increased available bandwidth can support vast amounts of data. This much-anticipated speed and connectivity have been widely reported as game-changing, and...
wild images noun [wī(-ə)ld•im-ijz] camera-unaware faces; faces in motion in real-world conditions. See also faces in the wild. // In the April 2019 NIST results, SAFR tested as the fastest and most compact among algorithms for wild images with less than 0.022 False...
By: Reza Rassool Last month, I had the opportunity to discuss facial recognition with Steve Wong at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. As is natural to do with any emerging technology, Steve brought up some common concerns around facial recognition. I’m always happy to answer...
By Dan Grimm “Why did you decide to help build a facial recognition business? Isn’t that a little… scary?” I have been asked that question numerous times since leaving Amazon to lead SAFR by RealNetworks. The short answer: I believe excellent facial recognition...
Facial recognition technology is the newest tool K-12 administrators can use to make campus access more secure and convenient. Districts nationwide are successfully incorporating this technology as part of daily life in schools. While leaders in education are...
Human Facial Recognition Humans are born with a capacity for facial recognition that is shaped through repeated exposure. As infants, we quickly learn to recognize the faces of those around us and come to regard them as safe and important to our wellbeing. Human...
