Japan, Feb. 14 -- NEC Corporation announced that its face recognition technology has been ranked the world's most accurate in a benchmark test conducted by the globally recognized U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
In this benchmark test, NEC received the highest performance evaluation in "1:N Identification," which consists of still images of 12 million different people, by achieving an authentication accuracy rate of 99.88%.
NEC also ranked first in three other tests - including an aging effects test, in which photos taken more than 10 years prior were used for identification - and placed in the top three in all categories of the Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) 1:N Identification leaderboard that a...