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Volume 30
2018 CHAMPIONS Edition
NEC Corporation of America
• Gold ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner
• NeoFace
• Best Biometric Recognition System
• *NEC is also a 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner

NEC’s NeoFace Express is a cutting-edge, inte-
grated solution that uses facial recognition
to transform the travel experience, elevate
VIP access, secure national borders, increase
pedestrian flow, and keep citizens safe.
NEC Corporation’s NeoFace Express facial recognition kiosks at
O’Hare International Airport
speed, face direction and sight line.
To achieve reliable face recognition of a video
image, NEC developed feature point extraction
technology that enables enhanced face recogni-
tion to a level where an individual can be iden-
tified with high precision from within a group,
Video face recognition technology identifies the even if their face is partially hidden, or the im-
faces of moving subjects in real-time as they walk age is taken from different angles.
naturally without stopping in front of a camera.
The benefits of high-speed video analysis enabled by
this technology include the prevention of potential
incidents through detection of suspicious individu-
als and recognition of individuals at the gateways of
critical facilities.
NEC’s face recognition technology also uses deep
learning technologies for face matching to increase
accuracy to a level where an individual can be identi-
fied by a low resolution face image captured by a
distant camera.
Using video images
from standard cameras
for face recognition re-
quires highly-advanced
techniques when com-
pared to still images, be-
cause images are greatly
influenced by environ-
mental conditions, such
as camera location, im-
age quality, lighting and
subject size, in addition
to the behavior of a sub- (Learn More about facial recognition powered by image matching software developed by NEC
ject, including walking Corporation of America.)
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