The Arizona Department of Transportation has selected an automated facial recognition system developed by NEC to improve the credential issuance process.The NeoFace facial recognition solution, which utilizes NEC's NeoFace Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based biometric solution through a cloud platform, will work against a licence database storing some 16 million images.Connecting with the cloud, NeoFace interfaces with credential issuance processes and reduces fraudulent identity activities. The solution also includes NeoFace Reveal, a proven tool for investigating fraud. Reveal gives ADOT the ability to open investigation cases, perform the search of photographic images and compare against the driver license and identification card records.On 5 August, NEC released a new version of its facial recognition algorithm NeoFace which it says provides a 28% improvement in accuracy in comparison to previous releases. The latest NeoFace product release also offers eight times fewer errors than the next highest performing algorithm, the company said.

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