NEC face recognition technology ranks first in NIST accuracy testing

NEC Corporation of Japan has announced that its face recognition technology achieved the highest matching accuracy in the Face Recognition Vendor Test 2018 performed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with an error rate of 0.5% when registering 12 million people.

This rating was the fifth time for NEC following its top placement in the face recognition testing for video in 2017.

The growing convenience of biometric authentication technology, improved security awareness, and the remarkable development of artificial intelligence (AI), have driven companies around the world to begin adopting biometric authentication technology.