Want to manage your workplace more efficiently?
Looking for new tools to address the challenges you face at your workplace?
The good news is that facial recognition is no longer science fiction.
In this article, you’ll learn some of the ways facial recognition can help you improve your workplace management (You’ll also get a quick look at the history of facial recognition tech.).
A Brief Timeline of the History of Facial Recognition
We’ve written about facial recognition before on the blog but let’s take a quick look at the history of facial recognition.
But first, let’s be sure we’re on the same page. What exactly is facial recognition? How does it work?
According to Techopedia, “facial recognition is a biometric software application capable of uniquely identifying or verifying a person by comparing and analyzing patterns based on the person's facial contours.”
Woody Bledsoe, Helen Chan Wolf, and Charles Bisson are considered the pioneers of facial recognition technology. During the 1960s, they worked on using a computer to recognize human faces but only some of their work was published and recognized because their project was funded by an intelligence agency.
In the 1970s, Harmon, Lesk and Goldstein improved the accuracy of facial recognition by identifying 21 facial measurement points.
Researchers at Heinz College found evidence that facial recognition software has existed since 1973. By 1988, Kirby & Sirovich were able to normalize a facial image using fewer than 100 measurement points.
Then, in 1991, Turk & Pentland completed the first crude facial detection.
As you can see below, we’ve continued to advance the field of facial recognition ever since.
Today, there are a growing number of facial recognition applications. Let’s take a look at some of the places where facial recognition is in use.
The Benefits of Using Facial Recognition in the Workplace
Managing the workplace is about optimizing the use of your resources and facilities.
Well, one of the obvious advantages of facial recognition technology is safety and security.
Other, less obvious advantages include:
A human face has about 80 nodal points. Facial recognition technology software measures these points -- including the distance between the eyes, the width of the nose, the shape of the cheekbones, and length of the jawline -- and translates that data into a numerical code, called a faceprint.
Since facial recognition does not require contact like fingerprinting and other security measures, facial recognition offers a fast, automated, and seamless check-in or check-out experience.
Using Sine’s Face Check to Help With Workplace Management
We created Face Check to help organizations streamline your efforts. Here’s how easy it is to use:
Face Check is opt-in, which means visitors must agree to use Face Check during their initial check-in process.
Check-out is even easier.
Here are a few more ways Sine’s Face Check can help with workplace management.
We’ve come a long way from the time when facial recognition was portrayed in movies like RoboCop, The Fifth Element, and Terminator as a futuristic fantasy.
Now, it’s becoming more common to see facial recognition in use in the workplace. That’s why we launched Face Check...to help make your operations safer and save your visitors, contractors, and your team time.