Face Recognition API FAQ

How accurate is Seventh Sense Facial Recognition?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the US Department of Commerce conducts an independent, and non-partisan benchmark of Facial ...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 7:16 PM
Does Seventh Sense facial recognition algorithm has any racial bias?
Below are the March '22 test results from NIST, which show how the seventh sense algorithm has performed on VisaBorder photos of various races who might...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 7:16 PM
How does Seventh Sense ensure data privacy?
Seventh Sense is ISO 27001, SOC2 and GDPR compliant. Seventh Sense does not save any data for Facial Verification / Face Anti-Spoofing (Liveness). For Face ...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 7:17 PM
How do you evaluate a Face Recognition/Verification technology with Liveness detection?
Good User experience: A single photo is needed to verify and check the liveness under various lighting conditions. Accuracy: The Facial recognition alg...
Thu, 1 Dec, 2022 at 5:59 PM
What is NIST?
NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a physical sciences laboratory, and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of C...
Fri, 14 Oct, 2022 at 3:40 PM
What is NIST FRVT 1:1 Verification?
NIST evaluates the algorithms on a closed dataset for FRVT 1:1 and ranks the different algorithms across different categories Visa, Border, Visa Border, Mug...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 6:22 PM
What does FMR and FNMR mean?
A false non-match is the failure to match two face captures from the same person, whereas a false match is when a person's face is matched to someone el...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 6:23 PM
What is the threshold setting? What threshold should I use for different applications?
A threshold is a balance between false positives and false negatives (not recognising someone whom you are supposed to recognise). Searches (and verificatio...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 7:17 PM
What is the significance of FNMR @ FMR = 10 ^ (-6) is 0.0029 mean in VisaBorder category?
Seventh Sense has achieved a result of 0.0029. i.e., when a million images are processed, the False Match Rate is one, and the False Non-Match rate is 29 in...
Wed, 9 Nov, 2022 at 5:40 PM
What is the Visa Border Dataset on NIST?
The VisaBorder takes pairs from Visa and Wild datasets. The Visa photos are enrolled, and the algorithm needs to verify the images from the wild dataset. Th...
Tue, 1 Nov, 2022 at 7:17 PM