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What is NeoFace?

What is NeoFace?

NeoFace is NEC’s high performance, highly scalable facial recognition algorithm, providing fast and accurate results for the most demanding real-time or post-event facial recognition use cases.

It’s designed to find a needle in a haystack, reducing a problem down to a much smaller review process. Built upon 40 years experience and world leading AI, it’s highly tolerant of ageing, angles, headwear and environmental factors such as lighting.

It performs consistently regardless of age, ethnicity and gender by combining the best feature-matching and AI technologies, It’s built-in safeguards support privacy and proportionate use, with auditing and reporting as well as automatic and manual data retention tools.

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Why use Facial Recognition?

Facial recognition software can help your force save lives, protect people and speed up investigations.

By locating dangerous or vulnerable people in a fraction of the time, facial recognition software can reduce the chance of further offences and help to keep the public safe.

Facial recognition software can warn officers in advance by identifying known violent offenders.

Facial recognition can speed up response times and cut significant amounts of manual work from investigations, which your force can reallocate to other investigations.

Why Choose NEOFace

Our technology has been independently proven by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the fastest and most accurate in the world

It has also been proven by NIST as one of the most consistently equitable facial recognition software on the market across various demographics

Age gap and database size has next to no impact on accuracy, ensuring future-proofed performance – helping you to confidently keep your community safe

It’s got built-in privacy features to enable you to comply with UK’s laws and regulations

We’re guided by NEC’s long-established principles around biometrics and AI which encourages ethical, proportionate and targeted use

We work closely with many UK forces to advance the use of facial recognition in the UK

It enjoys constant investment from NEC’s global biometrics team and benefits from real-world deployment across 57 countries

Its UK deployment is guided by our policing and public safety experts who’ve developed and deployed a range of solutions

Feedback from forces is incorporated into future versions of NeoFace solutions to continuously improve and expand on its capabilities

Why Choose NEOFace

Our technology has been independently proven by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the fastest and most accurate in the world

It has also been proven by NIST as one of the most consistently equitable facial recognition software on the market across various demographics

Age gap and database size has next to no impact on accuracy, ensuring future-proofed performance – helping you to confidently keep your community safe

It’s got built-in privacy features to enable you to comply with UK’s laws and regulations

We’re guided by NEC’s long-established principles around biometrics and AI which encourages ethical, proportionate and targeted use

We work closely with many UK forces to advance the use of facial recognition in the UK

It enjoys constant investment from NEC’s global biometrics team and benefits from real-world deployment across 57 countries

Its UK deployment is guided by our policing and public safety experts who’ve developed and deployed a range of solutions

Feedback from forces is incorporated into future versions of NeoFace solutions to continuously improve and expand on its capabilities

“Retrospective facial recognition is massively beneficial to how we work because it can identify a possible suspect much faster than manual review. We’re doing everything we can to detect crime and utilise all opportunities available to prevent re-offending, and this tool is vital for both.”

Inspector Ben Gwyer, South Wales Police

“Supported by digital enhancements, our officers are better equipped to protect our communities and create quicker outcomes for victims and suspects alike.”

Head Of ID & Custody, Leicestershire Police

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