Technology

Transforming the Face of Biometrics

OmniPerception’s Affinity™ Face Recognition technology drives solutions that bring uniquely fast and accurate performance in a wide range of face activated biometric applications - including physical and logical access, e-Passports, ID Cards, time and attendance, prevention of fraud and identity theft and a range of applications in the field of law enforcement and criminal justice.

Affinity™ face recognition technology is the next generation solution above and beyond the well-known “Fisher Face” technique of linear discriminant analysis. Building on the best features of the Fisher Face approach and taking advantage of innovations pioneered and refined by the company’s founders, Affinity™ technology generates more accurate and robust performance than competitive offerings. Via optimized discrimination and specially enhanced “client specific” identification, Affinity™ facial biometric technology from OmniPerception achieves significantly improved performance as compared with all current alternatives.

OmniPerception’s uniquely powerful core technology in this field has been built up over a total of more than 750 man-years of research and development; within the company’s in-house R&D team and in the world-famous Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, under the leadership of Professor Josef Kittler. To maintain its technological lead in this field, the company is committed to an on-going programme of high level research and development, both in-house and in the University, with whom OmniPerception has a long-standing intellectual property collaboration.

Advanced Image Processing / Video Analytics

In addition to its world-famous facial biometric solutions, OmniPerception is committed to the on-going advancement of its core technologies in a range of other image processing applications. Designed to deliver higher levels of performance to customers in mission-critical areas, these solutions fall into two broad categories:

• The company’s Magellan™ range of products and turn-key installations, for the automatic identification, analysis and reporting of brand exposure in broadcast TV and other image media; 
• The application of specialised derivations of Magellan™ technology to mission-critical imaging applications in intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance and video analytics – branded under OmniPerception’s  Gama™ banner.

OmniPerception solutions in both of these application areas benefit from distinctive performance advantages rooted in the company’s unique core technology. This makes them fundamentally more suitable to the tasks and challenges that these areas present.

OmniPerception's technology, with search space reduction (SSR) and geometric invariance (GI) characteristics, creates significant benefits for customers in terms of speed, accuracy and cost-effectiveness. These unique capabilities are essential new ingredients in the recipe for success in both commercial brand exposure analysis and the wider challenges of scene understanding in surveillance and video analytics.