Face Recognition Software
The software service for omnichannel biometric face analysis
User authentication can be as simple as taking a selfie. Secured by liveness detection, face recognition is typically used to verify if a user is who they claim to be.
Our face recognition comes as a service via API and is device-independent. This first-class software enables a wide range of applications that can be used on many devices without the need to register or enroll the user on each device.
How does the BioID Face Recognition Software work?
Face recognition works as a 1:1 face-matching software that verifies a selfie taken by a user against a pre-enrolled template.
Two selfies are required to perform liveness detection. Learn more about this in the video below:
Two Steps to Face Recognition: Enroll & Verify
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Enrollment
Before facial verification can be conducted, the system needs to learn how you look. For enrolling, simply take a few selfies of yourself. Our proprietary AI technology transforms the characteristics of your face into an irreversible and encrypted template – a mathematical abstraction that encodes how you look. For successful follow-on face verification, selfies provided by the user must match the corresponding template kept on our BioID Web Service.
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Verification
Once enrolled, the user can then be recognized using face verification. Face verification works the same way as enrollment except the selfies will be compared with the enrolled template. Only when there is a match, the verification process is considered successful.
Secured by Liveness Detection
To prevent spoofing with replay attacks (with photos, masks, video deepfakes, etc.) and to assure user presence, a liveness check is performed as part of the authentication process.
Benefits of User Authentication with our
Face Recognition Software
Device-Independent
Supports standard webcams and mobile phone cameras
Platform-Independent
Accessible from any online or mobile apps (iOS or Android)
Anti-Spoofing
Liveness detection is part of the process giving high assurance of user presence
Highest Security Standards
GDPR compliant and
privacy-assured
Cost Effective
High availability anytime and anywhere
on a pay-per-use/subscription basis
Use Cases
Work from Home
Biometrics effectively binds a digital identity to a physical person. For employees working from home, companies can use our face recognition software to verify their identity as part of their multi-factor user authentication.
KYC Authentication
Multifactor authentication combines face, phone, and geolocation reducing unauthorized access and increasing security for KYC situations. Multifactor authentication prevents both true and friendly fraud.
Pension Administration
BioID’s highly robust and accurate face recognition facilitates the 24/7 self-service user experience while keeping the entire administration journey, simple, discrete, and secure.
Access Control
Instead of using costly manual checking or easy-to-share tokens and passwords for employee and visitor management, innovative companies can make use of the latest developments in biometrics.
Privacy with Anonymous
Face Recognition Software
Can highly sensitive biometric data be used to secure identities and their data in a GDPR-compliant way?
At BioID it can.
Anonymous Face Recognition Software:
We transform raw data into pseudonymized binary templates. The raw data is deleted by default right after use. All binary templates are irreversible and revocable and are stored without other personally identifiable information in a highly secured European cloud. Therefore, we don’t know whom we recognize. Instead, we just send the information, if the biometric features in the stored template and the ones in the incoming image match each other.
Transparency:
Regarding the processing of data, data handling, and storage, we ensure complete transparency. All customers have full access to their data and can view, modify and delete their data and accounts at any time.
Cloud Biometrics:
Our anonymous biometric data is placed in highly secure, client-specific data centers (e.g. in Germany) instead of storing it on more vulnerable client’s devices.
Your biometric data belongs to you and only to you!
We can recognize you, but we don’t know who you are. As a German company following stringent German and European data privacy protection requirements, we take the protection of your data extremely seriously!
How does Face Recognition work?
In addition to our facial recognition technology, which already works with a mask, BioID has developed a patented periocular recognition technology that focuses on identifying a person only via the area around their eyes. Our patented periocular recognition is especially recommended for high-security applications such as healthcare, where partially obscuring the face or wearing a mask is a part of daily work-life.
A multimodal implementation using face and periocular recognition helps to boost the security level and usability regardless of lighting conditions and whether or not a mask is worn.
Made in Germany
since 1998
Originating from the research institute Fraunhofer IIS in 1998, BioID is a German biometrics company.
Our technology has a proven record since its inception and is trusted by countless enterprises, banks, and government organizations.