Panasonic FacePro WV-ASF900 facial recognition platform

Panasonic’s FacePro WV-ASF900 is a facial recognition analytics platform that provides face matching and searching, people counting, and age and gender statistics for video surveillance systems.

The platform runs on Microsoft Windows as well as Panasonic’s i-PRO management software and its 3 and 6 series network security cameras. Its hybrid architecture reduces server and network overload and is suitable for retail stores, airports, transit/public safety and enterprise applications.

The analytics platform performs verification of a person’s face using live video streams or digital images gained from surveillance cameras. It matches these against a database of enrolled faces and produces alerts of matches, reducing the workload of personnel monitoring entrances. Images can be selected from source video or imported via BMP, JPG and PNG files.

The product supports up to 20 face-matching cameras per server, matching 1000 faces/s, taking only 3 s to search for a person from 5 million faces. It also has the ability to set alarm triggers on matched faces.

Analysis capabilities also include counting the number of detected faces and evaluating their age and gender, with the results displayed as a statistical graph on screen.