The SAFR Blog
NIST Results Once Again Demonstrate SAFR’s Consistency and Fairness Among Racial Groups
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...
The Fastest Facial Algorithm Just Got Faster
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...
SAFR’s TCO Advantage: Detection at the Edge
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...
5 Ways SAFR Is Optimized for 5G
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...
5 Ways SAFR Excels at Facial Recognition for Live Video — and Why You Should Care
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...
Privacy and Bias: How SAFR Tackles Top Facial Recognition Concerns
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....
Bringing SAFR to the World
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...
Privacy by Design: Best Practices for Using Facial Recognition to Support Safer K-12 Campuses
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...
Recognizing Bias
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...
Getting Started with SAFR
RealNetworks recently released its SAFR platform—highly accurate, machine learning facial recognition designed to detect and match millions of faces in real time. While there are a variety of applications for this powerful technology, RealNetworks envisioned school...