Face Forensics Inc, developers of f2 face recognition technology, has announced its ability to match part of a face against a database of faces. This is particularly useful in a forensics environment where only body parts are left, e.g. after an explosion or fire, or with surveillance imagery where only part of a face is available.

The image of the facial part is positioned on a generic facial template. Controls are available to resize the partial face as well as adjust the key characteristics of the generic template to the partial face. Once positioned optimally, the partial face is encoded. This encoding is then matched against the same areas of full faces in the database. Matches above a predefined threshold are displayed for an investigator to review.

f2 is specifically designed to work easily with existing databases. It will detect single or multiple faces in a photo, video, or website, and match them in real time. It is available both as a free-standing application and as an SDK, and has the capability to work with extremely large databases. An evaluation copy can be downloaded from www.faceforensics.com

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