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Anyone Have Any Experience With NEC Facial Recognition?

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Undisclosed Integrator #1
Oct 17, 2018

NEC - Facial Recognition

Anyone? Bueller?

 

We are looking at a client that is interested in this level of surveillance performance, however we have no connection with NEC. Trying to decide if its worth pursuing.

 

JH
John Honovich
Oct 17, 2018
IPVM

I spoke with them last year at a show. The net/net is that they sell consulting engagements for customers where price is no object. If thousands of dollars per camera plus paying to fly in NEC engineers is something your customer is open to, it is worth considering.

You can look at the NEC Wales project for a sense of failure / success.

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Branko Angebrant
Oct 22, 2018

Hi,

My company and I tested their solution in conjunction with Indigo Vision VMS platform. Though in that moment two platforms wasn't integrated in any way, as we had limited time to present facial recognition to our MOI. Presentation took place in football game as idea was to implement this solution on football stadiums across the country as part of UEFA rules. 

All in all system worked, but be aware when you mention and start to offer this kind of systems to your customers, so many aspects needs to be satisfied for it to work. Most important thing is for camera to catch face in right angle and with NEC system distance between eyes must be min. 60px. When you have real world situation like football game and you what to search and scan the audience to satisfied all the parameters could be very challenging job. To sum up, right positioning of the cameras is most important task, and most challenging one in the same time.

Things that I didn't like about this system is its NEC price policy. First of all for any kind of testing and presentations, and you have to perform those at least for yourself and than for customer as well, NEC will try to charge you substantial amount of money, which is crazy. I mean, I have to pay in advance to push their product to my customers!! 
Second, total cost of the system, even for small system with 30 cameras is so expensive, as you have to by licenses for software form NEC and on top of that this software cant run on average hardware!! In order to work properly and fast as NEC advertise, you have to calculate Nvidia Tesla GPUs and very fast servers. All that adds a pretty nice amount on overall cost. 
In discussion with NEC representatives I understood that their price policy isn't adjusted for European market at all, especially for SE Europe. Rather than that they kept the price policy form US (Government) and planed to succeed in Europe which is not possible. I dont know maybe in the mean time they've changed their price policy. 

Beside this we plan to test Anyvision system next month. But as all the facial recognition systems require huge amount of graphical processing power I wouldn't be surprise that this system ask the same, fast servers and Tesla GPUs.

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