The SAFR Blog

  Engineering Ethics into AI: Minimizing Bias in Facial Recognition Facial recognition technology, like any deep learning algorithm, is only as effective as the code and the dataset it is trained on. For companies with global reach, the ethical imperative lies in...

  Facial Recognition vs. Identity Regonition: What's the Difference? Facial recognition and Identity recognition may sound similar, but they serve very different purposes. One detects a face, while the other confirms who that face belongs to by linking it to...

  Enhancing Airport Back-of-House Security with Facial Recognition Airports rank among the world’s busiest and most tightly monitored environments. With thousands of employees navigating secure zones daily, ensuring both seamless and secure access presents a...

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...

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...

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...