Geometrix FaceVision from ThingLab Australia -

The FaceVision product line consists of reconfigurable hardware and software modules easily integrated into identity management systems scalable from a single facility to national border control.

A typical minimum configuration FaceVision system contains:

Enrollment Stations

FaceVision 3D Biometric Enrollment Stations provide a powerful, convenient, and field-proven system for acquiring 3D facial shape biometrics. To ensure user acceptance and ease of operator training, FaceVision 3D Biometric Enrollment Stations operate just like conventional photo ID enrollment systems, but they deliver 3D biometric templates suitable for medium to high-security access control applications. Easily customized personal data capture screens plus optional fingerprint, smart card, and photo ID printing modules support rapid implementation of complete enrollment solutions.

FaceVision 200 Series Biometric Enrollment Stations are based on the same Face Vision Identity Sensor used at probe, integrated with desk-mounted frame and illumination to ensure high-quality 2D and 3D enrollment datasets. The 200 Series Enrollment Stations are ideal for cost-sensitive installations where identity verification will be performed from near-frontal pose angles.

To enroll galleries that might be probed from large pose angles, FaceVision 600 Series 3D Biometric Enrollment Stations include six high-speed, high-resolution cameras mounted in a rigid frame containing a complete optimized lighting system. The cameras are arranged in three pairs, each of which acquires a 3D patch from one view of the subject's face (front, right, and left). The three patches are automatically merged together into a precise ear-to-ear 3D facial model, including compression into a 3D Facial Shape Analysis template for rapid identity comparisons. The 600 Series arrives completely tested, and includes an assembled frame containing cameras and lighting.

FaceVision 600 Series 3D Biometric Enrollment Stations include six high-speed, high-resolution cameras mounted in a rigid frame containing a complete optimized lighting system. The cameras are arranged in three pairs, each of which acquires a 3D patch from one view of the subject's face (front, right, and left). The three patches are automatically merged together into a precise ear-to-ear 3D facial model, including compression into a 3D Facial Shape Analysis template for rapid identity comparisons.

The 600 Series arrives completely tested, and includes an assembled frame containing cameras and lighting, plus a dual-CPU Identity Server workstation pre-loaded with enrollment and database software and all cables and accessories.

Identity Sensors

FaceVision 3D Biometric Identity Sensors provide a secure, convenient, and flexible biometric sensing solution for access and border control systems. As easy to integrate and operate as conventional cameras, FaceVision Identity Sensors output tightly calibrated stereo image pairs that are processed into precise 3D Facial Shape Analysis Templates for confident identity verification. FaceVision Identity Sensors are available in wall, door, desk, and portal configurations, with a wireless handheld version planned for identifying multiple vehicle occupants.

FaceVision Identity Sensors deliver high-resolution color facial images that remain perfectly registered to processed shape data, providing a complete, geometrically accurate facial imagery package suitable for any surveillance or forensic application requiring 2D or 3D facial measurement. In addition to identity verification, FaceVision Identity Sensors may also be used for enrolling subjects in cases where identification from large pose angles is not required.

FaceVision Biometric Identity Sensors are constructed using the latest high-speed, high-resolution digital cameras to ensure a continuous upgrade path and ongoing price/performance improvement. All processing is performed at central Identity Server workstations to ensure immediate system-wide implementation of all software upgrades.

Geometrix offers a variety of Identity Servers designed to meet the needs of any identity control system from single facility to national border. All FaceVision Identity Servers feature the same proven algorithms for robust and reliable identity confirmation.

All FaceVision Identity Servers perform the following functions:

High-speed 3D extraction:
Images from FaceVision Enrollment Stations and FaceVision Identity Sensors are processed to extract precise 3D shape.

Biometric Template Generation:
Extracted 3D models are further processed into an encrypted, compressed template for matching purposes, from which the original 3D facial model may be reconstructed.

Database Storage:
A high-speed SQL database is used to organize and access stored templates from any node on the network.

Identity Verification:
FaceVision's high-speed matching engine compares any two templates and generates a match/no match decision.

FaceVision Identity Servers may be ordered in two and four processor configurations, to handle any number of access points from one to thousands, and to support any number of enrollees from one to one billion. Multiple servers maybe used on a network to achieve unlimited scalability and redundancy.

Software

In addition to our core automated identity verification software, Geometrix offers a range of unique application packages tailored to solve specific identity management problems.

We maintain a large code base and utilize object-oriented techniques to gain leverage through reusability. We've learned through experience what it takes to implement well-structured interfaces between underlying algorithms and high-level application code - so if we do not already offer the application package you need, we can implement it quickly. Or, you can, using our powerful SDK.
Some of our existing software offerings include:

Guard Station:
FaceVision Guard Station software solves the major bottleneck in most biometric systems - what to do when a user is rejected. Our unique Guard Station software allows security to retrieve a life-sized 3D model of the enrolled user, and zoom/rotate to view any detail in the model. By comparing these details to the live rejected subject, the full power of the human mind can be harnessed to confirm or exclude identity.

Multiview Rendering Software:
This package contains a powerful set of tools for posing and relighting FaceVision 3D facial models to match pre-specified conditions, and exporting the result to a 2D facial recognition engine for comparison against legacy 2D images. This can provide a significant recognition rate improvement versus conventional methods. Additional information is available here.

Mug Shot Software:
This package integrates biometric enrollment, personal data entry, tools for performing forensic identity confirmation/exclusion from oblique crime scene surveillance imagery, witness lineup tools, and posing/lighting/rendering. Together, these features provide the most advanced mug shot capture and analysis capabilities in the world. Additional information is available here.

Software Developers Kit (SDK):
The FaceVision SDK enables software developers and integrators to build their own FaceVision solutions using the same components Geometrix builds into its systems. A wide range of functions is provided for enrollment, identification, supervision, and administration.

Geometrix FaceVision 3D Sensors - Discontinued