Vision-Box Achieves Top Ranking on latest NIST’s Facial Recognition Vendor Test
Vision-Box, the global provider of biometric-based digital identity solutions and Seamless Travel Platforms, has submitted its facial recognition algorithm to tests by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), outperforming other top competitors.
NIST provides an independent assessment of facial recognition technology for industry, governments, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. The latest benchmark covering 109 algorithms from over 63 providers has ranked Vision-Box´s algorithm within the top 15. In particular, the performance in the live-to-live recognition test set demonstrates it’s a highly performant face recognition solution for usage in Seamless Traveler Programs.
The vision-Box facial recognition algorithm is based on state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning technologies, guaranteeing a continuous, fast, and automated self-improving ability. The Vision-Box Research and Innovation team hosts a highly qualified and dedicated group of AI experts that continually seeks to improve the performance of its biometric capture, matching engines, and related technologies. The focus is particularly on applications in the Aviation and Border Control sectors, in which the company has a dominant market position – Seamless Traveler Programs, contactless border control, or simpler biometric boarding processes.
Vision-Box FR (facial recognition) is part of the company’s flagship Seamless Traveler Platform. It includes a cloud-ready Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) architecture that connects stakeholders, including Border Control Authorities, Airlines, and Airports. The goal is to optimize their biometrically enabled passenger process points that use advanced AI and IoT technology. This scalable solution securely enables a single biometric token for matching services beyond borders. Everybody wins, with a much more connected, user-friendly, quicker, and secure travel experience, that respects citizens’ privacy and any legal frameworks.
Vision-Box FR is an integral part of The Seamless Journey Platform and shall be available to all its current and future customers, within the suite, as a native biometric service, providing a trusted digital identity, biometric recognition technology, and a collaborative identity management platform accessible to various authorized stakeholders.
A game-changer for the biometric market, as pinpointed by Vision-Box CEO Miguel Leitmann:
“Receiving this recognition confirms our ambition to provide one of the leading matching services integrated within our Seamless Journey Platform suite, a technology that is continuously being optimized for passenger handling in large-scale scenarios. We are dedicating the same level of attention to matching performance, as we have been successfully doing so for the biometric capture because both have to go hand-in-hand if accurate performance is expected in highly scaled implementations”
“Several ongoing deployments are taking advantage of our technology today, providing conditions where airports, airlines, and border police can finally collaborate in a „Privacy-by-Design“ certified environment, eliminating the legacy of separated data silos and handling sensitive data challenges related to identity management in collaboration”.
The current most advanced One iD* programs leveraging a single token system, such as Amsterdam-Schiphol, Dubai, Bangalore, and Aruba, are considering the hundreds of passenger process points, operating from curb to gate. This releases passengers from the printed paper or electronic document presentation hassles and reduces long queues while transforming the whole journey into a digital, seamless, and much safer travel experience.
Just using a face and intuitively walking through the workflow at the control points, like at check-in, baggage drop, security screening, border control, lounge access, or boarding, the passengers’ process will be handled in the background through the Seamless Journey Platform, simultaneously and together with all the other seamless travelers. The platform is connecting the travelers’ journey at each process point towards the airplane while providing all the stakeholders with critical real-time information to plan, collaborate and operate more efficiently.
*: One iD: https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/passenger/Pages/one-id.aspx
“One ID introduces an opportunity for the passenger to further streamline their journey with a document-free process based on identity management and biometric recognition. Passengers will be able to identify themselves at each airport touchpoint through a simple biometric recognition. The objective is to achieve a truly interoperable system coordination between airports, airlines and governments."
Date: 04/06/2019
