CyberLink Corp., vendor of AI and facial recognition technologies, announced on Wednesday an alliance with IEI Integration, enabling the FaceMe AI facial recognition engine on IEI’s industrial computers. The joint solution brings CyberLink’s facial recognition technology to more smart AIoT devices across multiple industries and scenarios, such as retail and security.
The partnership allows FaceMe to integrate with IEI’s FLEX-BX200 AI modular box PC, supporting AI acceleration on the Mustang-V100-MX8 VPU (video processing unit), and providing rapid, deep neural network computing. Compared to a pure CPU solution, the acceleration achieved from the VPU integration with FaceMe provides 17.4 times the performance in facial recognition with reduced power consumption.
Powered by deep learning and neural network algorithms, CyberLink’s FaceMe provides precise and flexible, facial recognition engines available. In a recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), CyberLink’s FaceMe engine ranked 12th among all test participants in FRVT 1:1 (WILD 1E-4), reinforcing its position in the facial recognition technology market.
FaceMe provides system integrators with fast, flexible, and precise facial recognition SDK solutions. The convenient interface supports HTTP, C#, and C++ makes it both friendly and flexible to deploy FaceMe across various scenarios, including security, access control, public safety, smart retail and home protection.
The NIST FRVT WILD 1E-4 dataset consists of a wide variety of extracted facial data from surveillance footage and photos across a range of real-world situations, including different angles, poor lighting or partially covered faces, mimicking a multitude of different environments and settings where systems are required to precisely identify individuals.
IEI Integration builds up the business as an industrial computer provider, and turns to artificial intelligence and networking edge computing. IEI’s products are applied in computer-based applications such as factory automation, computer telephony integration, networking appliances, security, systems, and in fields like AI, IoT (Internet of Things), national defense, police administration, transportation, communication base stations and medical instruments. IEI continues to promote its brand products as well as serving ODM vertical markets to offer complete and professional services.
IEI has alliances with Intel, Microsoft and Amazon to offer a complete intelligent system with various options, including types of hardware devices, different operating systems, multiple applications, private/hybrid/public cloud computing, and data storage and security for developing integrated solutions, collaborating new applications, and expanding the markets.
“The demand for facial recognition is booming. Driven by the need for the latest IoT and AIoT innovations, FaceMe is now compatible with most mainstream operating systems and IoT/AIoT hardware, facilitating multiple value-added solutions,” said Mei Ku, CyberLink’s COO. “The collaboration with IEI optimizes performance of the FaceMe engine across edge devices, creating flexible solutions for various scenarios within retail, home, security and public safety sectors.”
“IEI is a leading brand in industrial computers. Our products are designed for deployment to match the needs of various industries, including factory automation, networking, national defense, building security, public safety, road traffic and medical solutions,” said Don Yu, senior associate VP of IEI.” This partnership enables facial recognition to run on a FLEX-BX200 AI modular box PC using Mustang-V100 Intel vision acceleration designed with the Intel Movidius VPU. IEI provides a complete solution for AI edge computing and helps our customers establish a wide range of smart solutions leveraging the latest advancements in facial recognition, such as FaceMe.”
