Taipei, Taiwan — March 4, 2019 — CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer in AI and facial recognition technologies, announced a strategic partnership with IEI Integration Corp., enabling the FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine on IEI’s industrial computers. The joint solution brings CyberLink’s industry leading facial recognition technology to more smart AIoT devices across multiple industries and scenarios, such as retail and security.

The partnership allows FaceMe® to seamlessly integrate with IEI’s FLEX-BX200 AI modular box PC, supporting AI acceleration on the Mustang-V100-MX8 VPU (video processing unit), and providing rapid, deep neural network computing. Compared to a pure CPU solution, the acceleration achieved from the VPU integration with FaceMe® provides 17.4x the performance in facial recognition with significantly reduced power consumption.

“The demand for facial recognition is booming. Driven by the need for the latest IoT and AIoT innovations, FaceMe® is now compatible with most mainstream operating systems and IoT/AIoT hardware, facilitating multiple value-added solutions,” said Mei Ku, CyberLink’s COO. “The collaboration with IEI optimizes performance of the FaceMe® engine across edge devices, creating flexible solutions for various scenarios within retail, home, security and public safety sectors.”

“IEI is a leading brand in industrial computers. Our products are designed for deployment to match the needs of various industries, including factory automation, networking, national defense, building security, public safety, road traffic and medical solutions,” said Don Yu, senior associate VP of IEI.” This partnership enables facial recognition to run on a FLEX-BX200 AI modular box PC using Mustang-V100 Intel® vision acceleration designed with the Intel® Movidius™ VPU. IEI provides a complete solution for AI edge computing and helps our customers establish a wide range of smart solutions leveraging the latest advancements in facial recognition, such as FaceMe®.”

Powered by deep learning and neural network algorithms, CyberLink’s FaceMe® is one of the most precise and flexible, facial recognition engines available on today’s market. In a recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), CyberLink’s FaceMe® engine ranked 12th among all test participants in FRVT 1:1 (WILD 1E-4), reinforcing its position as a leader in facial recognition technology.

The NIST FRVT WILD 1E-4 dataset consists of a wide variety of extracted facial data from surveillance footage and photos across a range of real-world situations, including different angles, poor lighting or partially covered faces, mimicking a multitude of different environments and settings where systems are required to precisely identify individuals.

The New Generation AIoT Integrated iHospital Platform Brings Enhanced Safety for Pharmaceutical Management  

Taipei, Taiwan — January 2, 2020—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, announced that its FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine has been integrated with iMedtac’s Automatic Dispensing Cabinet. This smart medicine cabinet is powered by IoT and facial recognition technology, integrating into an AIoT iHospital service platform and enhancing pharmaceutical management.

IoT is a key driver of healthcare technological innovation and provides solutions to growing demand driven by a number of factors such as aging populations. iMedtac is leading the charge by integrating AI and facial recognition to its new generation of AIoT-powered iHospital service platform.

iMedtac’s smart medicine cabinet is a key component of this new platform that enhances the protection and safe delivery of controlled substances. Legacy controlled substances’ access procedures require that at least two pharmacists keep the key and passcode to open medicine chests. Powered by FaceMe®, iMedtac’s new generation smart medicine cabinet identifies authorized medical personnel via AI facial recognition, offering better protection and safely providing streamlined, frictionless access to controlled substances. For example, the smart medicine cabinet management system is synchronized with employees’ specific work schedule and access authorizations to ensure very precise control. This solution greatly enhances safety, streamlines the drug delivery workflow, and contributes to an overall improvement in the quality of medical care.

“The rapid growth of AI technologies, enables innovation across multiple facets of healthcare, driving breakthroughs in treatment, safety and the quality of patient care,” said Dr. Jau Huang, CyberLink’s founder and CEO. “The integration of FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine into iMedtac’s smart medicine cabinet is a good example of how AIoT solutions can drive transformation of the medical industry and deliver safer, more efficient and better care.”

“By implementing CyberLink’s FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine, iMedtac’s Automatic Dispensing Cabinet brings AI and IoT technology into medical care, enhancing the safety of prescription drug delivery,” said Ken Yu, iMedtac’s founder. “iMedtac strives to provide the latest medical technology and solutions. Cooperating with CyberLink, we are able to build an integrated iHospital service platform and drive change to the global smart healthcare market.”

iMedtac’s smart medicine cabinet, which integrates CyberLink’s FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine, is being adopted by many medical centers in Taiwan. iMedtac will expand distribution of this AIoT solution to other countries in Asia and around the world.

Taipei, Taiwan — December 20, 2019—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, will showcase FaceMe® with several innovative applications of its cutting-edge AIoT technologies for use cases covering authentication, access control, safety, security, visitor analytics and more at CES 2020, booth #25555, Hall South 2, in the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 7-10, 2020.

FaceMe® is an AI facial recognition engine at the forefront of biometric solutions with innovation that keeps pushing standards for accuracy, performance, security and flexibility, across a wide range of industries. Since the launch of FaceMe® in late 2018, CyberLink has collaborated with over a hundred global partners, including hardware makers, solution providers and system integrators, deploying the technology across multiple IoT/AIoT scenarios. CES visitors will be able to experience firsthand a number of these new applications

 

FaceMe® is one of the world’s top facial recognition engines. Its edge-based architecture delivers very precise biometric data in a few milliseconds, runs cross-platform, and supports a variety of hardware configurations.  Powered by deep learning and neural network algorithms FaceMe® detects faces on live feeds or recorded videos to identify people and measure a number of attributes such as age, gender, mood and face orientation. It yields up to a 99.82% accuracy rate over Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) database, and is ranked 12th among all participants in FRVT 1:1 (WILD 1E-4) in the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). FaceMe® offers cross-platform capabilities on Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, for a variety of edge devices and different hardware configurations, such as security systems, retail store cameras, smart door bells, body cameras and service robots. 

“Facial recognition and edge-based AI are quickly becoming some of the market’s hottest technologies and with FaceMe®, we are committed to providing our fast-growing customer base around the world with the most flexible, precise biometric solutions,” said Dr. Jau Huang, CyberLink’s founder and CEO. “Visitors to our CES booth will be able to learn about FaceMe® and experience some of the most recent and exciting applications of our cutting-edge technology.”

Richard Carriere, Senior Vice President and General Manager at CyberLink, has been invited by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to speak about current trends in AI technology and the latest innovations to the FaceMe® AI recognition engine in a Press Conference at CES 2020, held on January 6, 2020 at 3 p.m. in the Oceanside Ballroom F, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Come meet the FaceMe® team and take a look at our latest developments in AI and facial recognition. Experience our technology through several demos and use cases at booth #25555, Hall South 2, in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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For more information about FaceMe®, please visit the official website at www.cyberlink.com/FaceMe

Taipei, Taiwan — December 19, 2019—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, participated in the Intel Edge Computing Solution Summit. The summit brought together leaders from the IoT industry who shared insights on AI edge computing’s latest breakthroughs and the opportunities that this technology will bring in the future. Dr. Jau Huang, CyberLink’s founder and CEO, was invited to speak about the benefits of edge computing and how it enables precise, fast, affordable and secure AIoT use cases including facial recognition, such as the company’s FaceMe® AI-based engine.

 

With FaceMe®, CyberLink has leveraged edge-based technology and AI to deliver one of the world’s most precise, flexible and best performing facial recognition engines. Compared with cloud-based solutions, edge computing is much cheaper, greatly enhances flexibility and provides real-time response, helping system integrators quickly develop and add new functionalities into existing systems and new AIoT products. FaceMe® AI facial recognition has been integrated into solutions such as identity verification, access control, statistics and customer service, across a number of industries including retail, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, security, and public safety. At the summit, Dr. Huang shared insights on edge computing current trends, opportunities and challenges, illustrated by several customer success stories.

“AI-based facial recognition is one of the key AIoT enablers and is on its way to become ubiquitous, with the proliferation of edge solutions embedded into any devices equipped with cameras,” said Dr. Jau Huang, founder and CEO of CyberLink. “FaceMe® is very well positioned to become the engine of choice across industries.”

Edge computing is one of the fastest developing and widely-applied IoT technologies. At the summit, CyberLink showcased its FaceMe® facial recognition engine powered by Intel Movidius and optimized by OpenVINO, drawing attention from hundreds of attendees. Using OpenVINO, FaceMe®’s algorithm can achieve a 7x performance boost making FaceMe® the best option on the Intel platform.

Taipei, Taiwan — December 12, 2019—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, participated in 2020 Advantech Embedded-IoT World Partner Conference at Advantech’s Linkou Smart Campus. Dr. Jau Huang, CyberLink’s founder and CEO was invited to speak about the results of its successful and strategic partnership with Advantech in the conference’s segment entitled: “TechTalks: The Evolution of Edge Computing and AI.” The partnership is enabling considerable enhancements to FaceMe®’s performance when running on Advantech’s AIR Inference System combined with Intel Movidius VPU. It provides a significant proof point on both companies’ leadership in the global AIoT industry.

Powered by deep learning algorithms, FaceMe® delivers reliable, high-precision, and real-time facial recognition that is critical to AIoT applications such as smart retail, security, public safety, banking and smart home. Based on machine learning and deep neural network, FaceMe® has an accuracy rate (TAR, True Acceptance Rate) of 99.5% at 10-4 FAR. It ranks amongst the most precise and fastest facial recognition engines in the NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT). Built for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS, FaceMe® is one of the most flexible and comprehensive cross-platform development solutions.

At the conference, Advantech demonstrated its AIR Inference System powered by Intel Movidius VPU, showcasing a 20X improvement in FaceMe®’s performance compared to a similar system equipped with a conventional CPU – all while maintaining the engine’s outstanding facial recognition precision. In addition to driving down the costs of bandwidth and computation over AI solutions running on the cloud, Edge-based FaceMe® furthers its already considerable performance advantage when using this new Advantech system.

“Leading hardware developers and system integrators around the world strive to innovate and develop new AI solutions. We welcome collaboration initiatives that integrate FaceMe®’s AI facial recognition engine and bring reliable, secure and highly performing offerings to the market,” said Dr. Jau Huang, CyberLink’s founder and CEO. “CyberLink and Advantech’s partnership is strengthening both companies’ global AIoT leadership.”

Advantech is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. With FaceMe®, CyberLink is providing hardware developers and system integrators one of the world’s most precise, fastest and most flexible AI facial recognition engines, driving a wide and rapidly growing range of AIoT applications and scenarios.

San Jose, California—November 5, 2019- CyberLink (5203.TW), a pioneer of AI, facial recognition, and multimedia software, co-hosted the second global competition “AI Meets Beauty Challenge” with Perfect Corp. and National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan). The winning teams were announced at the ACM Multimedia Conference in Nice, France on October 24th. The first prize was awarded to the University of Science and Technology of China’ team.

The “AI Meets Beauty Challenge” is an annual competition inviting teams from around the world to propose solutions addressing beauty tech problems and to showcase how smart technologies can enhance the customers’ experience.

This year, the organizers provided a large-scale image dataset of over half million images of beauty and personal care products, named the Perfect-500K dataset. Participants were challenged to develop an AI algorithm that could correctly identify each product from the dataset.

A total of 55 qualified submissions from around the world were presented to the judges who selected four finalists whose academic papers were published at the ACM Multimedia Conference 2019. The first prize was awarded by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), showcasing advancement in image recognition techniques using Artificial Intelligence (AI) on a novel Generalized-attention Regional Maximal Activation of Convolutions (GRMAC) descriptor. This breakthrough offers a mechanism that reduces background noise and highlights the image, further enhancing the illustrated beauty product’s identification effectiveness. The teams from Guangdong University of Technology, and Guangzhou Shiyuan Electronic Technology Company were also awarded prizes.

“CyberLink has long been a pioneer in AI technology, and the company’s FaceMe® AI facial recognition engine has ranked among the world’s most precise solutions in the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),” said Dr. Jau Huang, CEO of CyberLink. “In addition to facial recognition, AI subject identification is an important technology for smart retail and a key focus for our company. This competition contributes to CyberLink’s search for global AI talent and partners to develop future smart retail solutions.”

“Congratulations to the winners for such a tremendous achievement. We want to thank all the participants who joined the challenge,” said the CEO and founder of Perfect Corp., Alice Chang. “We are excited to see so many talented AI researchers striving to achieve technology breakthrough. We believe research and advanced technology developments like those submitted in this contest will empower the beauty industry’s digital transformation and reshape the customer’s journey.”

Los Angeles, California —October 29, 2019—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, will be demonstrating AIoT solutions powered by FaceMe®, the company’s award-winning facial recognition solution, at the world’s leading IoT conference,  IoT Tech Expo in Silicon Valley, CA, November 13th-14th, 2019. 

Powered by deep learning algorithms, FaceMe® delivers reliable, high-precision, and real-time facial recognition that is critical to AIoT applications such as smart retail, security, public safety, banking and smart home. It yields up to a 99.82% accuracy rate over Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) database. In the latest Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), CyberLink has ranked 12th among all participants in FRVT 1:1 (WILD 1E-4), confirming that FaceMe® is a world-leading facial recognition engine. FaceMe® offers cross-platform capabilities on Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, for a variety of edge devices and different hardware configurations, such as security systems, retail store cameras, access control, smart door bells, and service robots. 

“FaceMe® is designed to remove barriers and make facial recognition a widely deployed technology by software developers, device makers and solution integrators,” said Dr. Jau Huang, CyberLink’s founder and CEO. “Its flexibility, precision and lightning fast speed enable quick integration to virtually any IoT solutions involving human-machine interaction.”

You are invited to join Dr. Huang’s IoT Tech Expo’s session entitled “AI-Driven IoT at the Edge.” Jau will share insights derived from CyberLink’s successful deployment of edge-based AI facial recognition in a number of IoT areas, across devices, platforms and industries. The presentation, which is part of the Convergent Technology Solutions track, will be held on Wednesday November 13th at 12:30 PM.

Come meet CyberLink’s FaceMe® team at the IoT Tech Expo at stand #523 in Santa Clara’s Convention Center, in the Silicon Valley. You will see demos of FaceMe® and learn how your business can be transformed by enabling facial recognition for authentication, access control, safety, security, and visitor analytics.

For more information about FaceMe®, please visit the official website at www.cyberlink.com/FaceMe