Ask the Expert: Casinos, Face Recognition, and COVID-19

April 15, 2020 | General

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...

Face masks don’t negate the benefits of facial recognition

April 7, 2020 | General

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...

NIST Test Confirms SAFR Delivers the Highest Effective Accuracy for Live Video

January 21, 2020 | General

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...

NIST Results Once Again Demonstrate SAFR’s Consistency and Fairness Among Racial Groups

August 14, 2019 | General

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...

The Fastest Facial Algorithm Just Got Faster

July 19, 2019 | General

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

June 20, 2019 | General

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...