Oki expands face recognition system

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Oki Electric Industry Co on Monday announced its launch of a face recognition middleware for the surveillance market. The “FSE (Face Sensing Engine) Ver.4” for embedded systems can detect faces and identify specific human beings from surveillance videos.

Oki plans to offer an embedded video recognition module with a human tracking function shortly, and when this module is combined with the system, once the face is detected from the video, the system can continue to track that specific person through other features, even when his/her face is not seen on the camera.

The newly launched FSE Ver. 4 will reduce the network load from surveillance systems, which has been a problem when large amounts of video data are sent. Instead of sending massive video data, the new approach can deliver parts of the video or transmit specific images over the network. By combining FSE Ver.4 with an object tracking function, a system can monitor the behavior of an identified person and with the addition of a digital video recorder, data capacity can be reduced while still enabling suspicious figures to be found in the recorded data.