May 16, 2019 | Blog, Policy
The use of automated face recognition in law enforcement is not a binary discussion point. Yet, the political leaders of San Francisco have turned it into just that with recent legislation that bans local government agencies use of the technology. In turn, the safety...
May 8, 2019 | Blog, Educational, ROC SDK
Step #1: Understand your application Common face recognition applications include forensic search, real-time screening, identity deduplication, and access control. Each application will involve different types of facial imagery (constrained or unconstrained) and will...
Apr 25, 2019 | Blog, Educational, ROC SDK
Suppose you were offered a futuristic virtual reality system on par with The Matrix for just $100. You would purchase it, right?! Now imagine you needed 50,000 sq. ft. of space in your home to run the system. That would change the proposition quite a bit. In many ways...
Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Educational, ROC SDK
Perhaps no technology is improving as rapidly as automated face recognition. For example, over the last four years Rank One has reduced the False Non-Match Rate of our algorithm by over 50x:Other face recognition vendors are similarly improving their accuracy at a...
Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, ROC SDK
The ROC SDK version 1.18 is now available to Rank One’s user community! This release is one of the most exciting progressions to Rank One’s face recognition algorithms ever delivered, with substantial accuracy improvements and several new features. Accuracy...
Jan 22, 2019 | Blog, Educational, ROC SDK
On Thursday, November 29th, 2018, I presented this topic at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) in Gaithersburg, MD. “And suddenly, face recognition technology was everywhere…”...
