FIERCE

AUTOMATES THE PROCESS OF EXPLOITING FACIAL IMAGES FROM MULTIMEDIA

With the wide adoption of cell phones and surveillance cameras, the availability of digital multimedia can be overwhelming. Oftentimes, operational personnel, such as law enforcement officers, receive large collections of various types of multimedia that contain facial images, including office documents, loose images with single/multiple faces, video, etc.

Current approaches to exploiting this data require excessive manual labor using ad-hoc processes that do not result in searchable objects that can produce the most accurate results and support forensic examination disciplines. FIERCE is a facial recognition software that was designed to automatically solve this problem by exploiting the data and selecting the best-quality searchable faces using state-of-the-art matching algorithms.

CREATES OUTPUT DATA THAT IS IMMEDIATELY USABLE IN BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS

FIERCE is a facial recognition software that creates standards-compliant EBTS files for each detected identity that can immediately be sent to large biometric systems such as DoD ABIS, FBI NGI, and DHS HART in an attempt to identify unknown persons of interest.

FIERCE utilizes Lakota’s proven standards-based ANI product to ensure that a valid and compliant EBTS submission is automatically created for the target system.

FIND KNOWN INDIVIDUALS OR SUSPECTS WITHIN VIDEO DATA

In addition to photographs, FIERCE can also be used to process video data such as CCTV recordings. FIERCE can automatically find a person of interest in the video data, providing an output of the precise times that they were seen in the video to speed up the video review process.

Similarly, FIERCE could be used to find certain family members in collections of old home videos.

EASILY SORT PHOTOGRAPHS BASED ON INDIVIDUALS IN THE PICTURE

The wide adoption of cell phones and digital photography has significantly increased the number of photos that people have taken over the years. In addition, photographers routinely take numerous pictures at large events such as kid’s sporting events, school dances, races (5k, 10k, etc.), etc.

A lot of time and effort is spent organizing these photos based on the individuals in the picture before they can are released. Often this process can take weeks or months to properly sort the photos and release them.

With FIERCE, this process can be automated, making the photos available significantly faster while significantly reducing the amount of work required by a photographer.