Aware Extends Market-Leading Mobile Biometric Face-Matching Technology to Address Masks
December 08 2020 - 9:00AM
Aware, Inc., (NASDAQ: AWRE), a leading global provider of
biometrics software products, solutions and services, today
introduced Knomi version 2.13, a market-leading mobile biometric
software product offering face-matching technology that directly
addresses individuals that are wearing masks with no sacrifice in
ease of use or performance. This version adds a significant new
biometric capability to Knomi’s robust core identity-matching and
authentication solution, offering users high levels of confidence
and security during the pandemic when mask-wearing is prevalent.
While facial recognition technology error rates have decreased
significantly in recent years, performance has struggled in
matching situations involving masks. Attempts to match images of
people wearing masks who were enrolled in a database without
wearing masks returned large numbers of random matches and low
levels of accuracy. With Knomi 2.13, an improved face recognition
algorithm can now match masked faces with unmasked images in the
database accurately. Aware continuously improves and optimizes
face-matching technology with face liveness, voice liveness and
voice matching capabilities, enabling Knomi 2.13 to provide our
customers with the benefits of the highest levels of secure and
convenient mobile onboarding and passwordless authentication
available.
“We’re proud that we’ve been able to deliver this important
innovation to the biometric authentication market at such a
difficult time for society,” said Bob Eckel, president & CEO of
Aware. “Users need to be confident that facial images will match
accurately, whether masks are on or off. With Knomi 2.13 our
customers can be sure that their identity-matching and
authentication procedures are solid and irrefutable. We believe our
facial recognition, voice matching, and liveness capabilities stand
alone.”
While other face-recognition systems in the market have improved
their accuracy in recent years, they have done so by reducing
performance speeds. Knomi 2.13’s upgraded face-recognition
algorithm offers improved accuracy at higher performance speeds,
removing the need for customers to sacrifice.
Knomi 2.13 also doesn’t require users to re-enroll images in the
database, eliminating a major cause of friction in the process.
Knomi is a mobile biometric authentication framework that
applies a variety of biometric algorithms to enable more secure and
convenient mobile onboarding and passwordless authentication
experience. Its web services and mobile device SDKs work in concert
to perform biometric capture, liveness detection, and matching,
with face and voice modalities supported.
More information about Knomi is available on the Aware’s product
webpage.
About AwareAware, a global leader
in productized biometrics software products, solutions and
services, provides critical biometric functionality to
collect, manage, process, and match biometric images and data for
identification and authentication. With their decades-long
experience, Aware leads the market in liveness detection and
multi-modal fusion to protect client and business processes through
fingerprint, face, iris, and voice matching algorithms, mobile
biometric capture and authentication software, a biometric workflow
and middleware platform, and a fully-scalable ABIS. Their
device-agnostic, integration-ready, and customer-managed products
enable ease-of-use for enterprises to empower individuals to own
their identities. Aware serves customers across a multitude of
industries, including financial services, enterprise security,
healthcare, human resources, citizen ID, border management, law
enforcement, defense, and intelligence. Aware is a publicly held
company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
To learn more, visit https://www.aware.com or follow
Aware on Twitter @AwareBiometrics.
Safe Harbor WarningPortions of this release
contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are
subject to risks and uncertainties, such as our expectations
regarding our new product. Aware wishes to caution you that there
are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
from the results indicated by such statements, including the risks
that (i) current and prospective customers do not purchase our new
product in the quantities that we expect and (ii) our new product
does not perform as well as we expect because of errors, defects or
bugs. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to time
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the
section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 and other reports and
filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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CONTACT
Company Contact
Gina Rodrigues
Aware, Inc.
781-276-4000
grodrigues@aware.com
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