NEC Corporation recently announced that its face recognition technology achieved the highest matching accuracy in the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2018 performed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with an error rate of 0.5% when registering 12 million people.
NEC announced the development of a “Person Re-identification Technology” that is capable of matching images of people whose figures are partially hidden from cameras, even if the image is taken from behind or from the side.
NEC recently announced the acquisition of a Danish IT company, KMD Holding for approximately 8 billion Danish Kroner (DKK). This acquisition is expected to accelerate NEC’s global safety business, which it has positioned as a growth engine for the company.
