After a lack of appearances in the Bredemarket blog (none since November), Pangiam is making an appearance again, based on announcements by Biometric Update and Trueface itself about a new revision of the Trueface facial recognition SDK.
The new revision includes a number of features, including a new model for masked faces and some technical improvements.
So what is this revision called?
Version 1.0.
“Wait,” you’re asking yourself. “Version 1.0 is the NEW version? It sounds like the ORIGINAL version. Shouldn’t the new version be 2.0?”
Well, no. The original version was V0. Trueface is now ready to release V1.
Well, almost ready.
If you go to the Trueface SDK reference page, you’ll see that Trueface releases are categorized as “alpha,” “beta,” and “stable.”
- When I viewed the page on the afternoon of March 28, the latest stable release was 0.33.14634.
- If you want to use the version 1.0 that is being “introduced” (Pangiam’s word), you have to go to the latest beta release, which was 1.0.16286.
- And if you want to go bleeding edge alpha, you can get release 1.1.16419.
(Again, this was on the afternoon of March 28, and may change by the time you read this.)
Now most biometric vendors don’t expose this much detail about their software. Some don’t even provide any release information, especially for products with long delivery times where the version that a customer will eventually get doesn’t even have locked-down requirements yet. But Pangiam has chosen to provide this level of detail.
Oh, and Pangiam/Trueface also actively participates in the ongoing NIST FRVT testing. Information on the 1:1 performance of the trueface-003 algorithm can be found here. Information on the 1:N performance of the trueface-000 algorithm can be found here.
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