Jun 12, 2019 | Blog, Educational, Policy
There is a misconception that law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use automated face recognition to actively surveil public spaces. Such a dragnet of mass real-time identification and surveillance would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States...
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 16, 2019 | News
Rank One delivered another impressive performance in the latest iteration of the NIST FRVT Ongoing face recognition benchmark. While nearly every vendor had gaps in their algorithmic performance, Rank One’s v1.18 algorithm did not have a single performance deficiency....
Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, ROC SDK
Rank One delivered another impressive performance in the latest iteration of the NIST FRVT Ongoing benchmark. This report included the ROC SDK v1.18 (listed as “rankone-006” in the report), with the following metrics: ROC SDK v1.18rankone-0062019-02-27 ROC SDK...
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 | News
Rank One Computing has released version 1.18 of the ROC SDK, its flagship facial recognition solution, which is delivered with substantial accuracy improvements and several new features. Now available to Rank One’s user community, this release is one of the most...
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…”...
Dec 12, 2018 | News, ROC SDK
Rank One Computing achieved yet another round of sweeping improvements in the most recent NIST FRVT Ongoing Benchmark, reducing error rates by between 10% and 50% on all datasets while improving algorithm speed at the same time. Figure 2 in the report, a scatter plot...
Dec 2, 2018 | News
CEO Brendan Klare was a featured speaker last week at the NIST IFPC 2018, an international face recognition conference sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate. Dr. Klare was one of an exclusive set of speakers from across...
Nov 20, 2018 | Blog, Educational
One of many critical considerations when selecting a face recognition SDK or system is the accuracy of the underlying algorithm. Even though an algorithm may meet your hardware requirements, licensing budget, support needs, or other decisive factors, if it is not...
Nov 15, 2018 | News
We’re launching today our comprehensive blog to share industry information and education with our community of engineers, integrators, and industry insiders, with the focus on acting as the ‘go to’ resource for the biometric industry. Designed and developed by ROC...
Nov 2, 2018 | Blog, Educational
Humans have an amazing ability to recognize faces, and artificial intelligence algorithms are slowly matching these capabilities. There is no simple explanation for how humans perform this common cognitive task, which is often referred to “face perception.” Face...
Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Educational, Reference
A comprehensive set of definitions and terms used when discussing face recognition technology. This page will be a continuously evolving reference for the basic terminology used when evaluating, integrating, and operating face recognition algorithms. Please let us...
Oct 31, 2018 | Administrative, Blog
Automated face recognition (FR) is one of the fastest growing and most exciting technologies in the world. In the past several years there has been substantial improvements in the accuracy of FR algorithms, which has in turn fueled the rapid growth in the applications...
Oct 22, 2018 | News
ROC SDK version 1.17 is now available. With this new release users will receive more accuracy enhancements, faster processing speeds, and usability improvements. The biggest improvement with version 1.17 is another order-of-magnitude reduction in false positive error...
Jun 13, 2018 | News, ROC SDK
Rank One is pleased to announce the release of version 1.16 of the ROC SDK, which includes another round of significant feature enhancements to the world’s most versatile face recognition solution. Several accuracy improvements have been made to the SDK in this...
Mar 12, 2018 | News, ROC SDK
We are excited to announce the release of version 1.15 of the ROC SDK, the world’s most versatile face recognition solution. We self-impose an expectation to release new versions of the ROC SDK on an ongoing three-month cycle and to provide our users with accuracy,...
Dec 12, 2017 | News, ROC SDK
Rank One Computing recently released version 1.14 of the world’s most versatile face recognition solution, the ROC SDK™. Rank One’s CEO, Brendan Klare, had the following to say about this latest release: “We are excited to deliver to our customers...
