With the cost savings on lost or damaged cards and ware and tear on the older style swipe clocks, Print Media Group decided that its time to upgrade to a simple but effective biometric facial recognition clock for all its sites.
The SY940 Facial recognition clocks make clocking in and out as simple as walking up to the units and placing your face a few feet away.
Facial recognition clocks analyse the characteristics of a person’s face images input through a digital video camera. It measures the overall facial structure, including distances between eyes, nose, mouth, and jaw edges. These measurements are retained in a database and used as a comparison when a user stands before the camera.
It is projected that biometric facial recognition technology will soon overtake fingerprint biometrics as the most popular form of user authentication due to its non intrusive nature.
Every face has numerous, distinguishable landmarks, the different peaks and valleys that make up facial features. Each human face has approximately 80 nodal points. Some of these measured by the Facial Recognition Technology are:
- Distance between the eyes
- Distance between eyebrows
- Width of the nose
- Depth of the eye sockets
- The shape of the cheekbones
- The length of the jaw line
These nodal points are measured creating a numerical code, called a faceprint, representing the face in the database. These faceprints are then saved as algorithms and stored in the database without the actual picture of the person’s face.