SmartFace Platform v5_4.16

Release date: 05-Octorber-2022

• [Added] - SmartFace is now integrated with edge devices compatible with SmartFace Embedded. A new edge stream input and processing can be configured via a new API endpoint.

• [Added] - New API endpoint added to verify faces on uploaded images.

• [Added] - New attributes FullName and DisplayName were added into API endpoint for watchlist member registration.

• [Added] - A new attribute video processing duration is available in the VideoRecords API endpoint.

SmartFace Platform v5_4.15

Release date: 12-August-2022

• [Added] - Option to filter out face notifications with Template Quality below threshold added.

• [Added] - New API endpoint for spoof check on submitted image added.

• [Added] - The watchlist search API endpoint has been improved with the ability to enable spoof check on the submitted image before the actual search.

• [Changed] - ZeroMQ notifications are no longer produced for Faces, Tracklets and MatchResults created from Rapid Video Processing.

• [Changed] - The property Name and Description of a video record can be changed via the API endpoint (PUT ​/api​/v1​/VideoRecords) regardless of the state the VideoRecord is in. All other properties can only be changed when the video recording is in the Ready state.

• [Changed] - New IFace 4.19.0 was integrated.

• [Changed] - Upgraded to .NET 6.

• [Fixed] - Fixed database migration error when upgrading from version 4.10 (or lower) to version 4.13 (or higher).

SmartFace Platform v5_4.14.1

Release date: 12-July-2022

• [Fixed] - Grouping ‘start time’ issue is fixed

• [Fixed] - DbCleanup timeout issue on PostgreSQL is fixed

• [Fixed] - FaceMatcher in memory state not updating after DbCleanup fix

• [Fixed] - SFBase service problem when NoSQL database is disabled is fixed

• [Fixed] - Ability to configure a static port for each host in a containerized environment for camera preview

SmartFace Platform v5_4.14

Release date: 10-June-2022

• [Added] - A new "Description" text field has been added into the Videorecord API entity.

• [Added] - Possibility to configure custom labels for watchlist members, which are set of unique key value pairs. You can query these labels also via GraphQL/OData.

SmartFace Platform v5_4.13

Release date: 26-May-2022

• [Added] - The new camera attributes have been added to GraphQL API to improve camera services.

• [Added] - A new API endpoint for video records has been added to clear processed results of rapid video processing.

• [Added] - A new "RecordedAt" attribute has been added to the video record, which allows setting the absolute time for detected objects during rapid video processing.

• [Added] - New attributes Age, Gender and FaceSize have been added to no-match/match notifications.

• [Changed] - The background color of detected objects where the object is partially cropped or incomplete was changed from white to grey.

• [Changed] - An improved distant passive liveness algorithm for spoof detection has been integrated.

• [Changed] - The value returned by passive liveliness was normalized. The range is from 0 to 100 now (before ~ from -10,000 to 10,000).

• [Changed] - Behavior of no-match notifications have changed. The system sends notifications of non-match for the tracklet at all times, even a notification of match has been sent.

• [Fixed] - Many small bug fixes.

SmartFace Platform v5_4.12

Release date: 22-February-2022

• [Added] - Support for deleting match results in DB cleanup process.

• [Added] - Possibility to configure a new ResourceID type for each camera for better HW resources utilization.

• [Added] - Tag support for video records in Rapid Video Processing.

• [Changed] - Db cleanup process performance improvements.

• [Changed] - Face detection optimization for higher resolutions inputs.

• [Fixed] - Wrong start time of individual in grouping fixed.

• [Fixed] - Many small bug fixes.

SmartFace Platform v5_4.11

Release date: 06-December-2021

• [Added] - Extend the overlay graphics of the encoded output stream for each camera with preferred information for detected face and identified person.

• [Added] - Ability to set default color of the bounding box for the detected face, identified person and detected pedestrian in the encoded output streams.

• [Added] - Ability to set color for each watchlist to override the default bounding box color in the encoded output streams when a person is identified.

• [Changed] - Camera service was extracted from base process to a separate process. The name of a docker image for camera service was changed to 'sf-cam'.

• [Changed] - The SmartFace versioning system has changed. The SmartFace Platform version is prefixed by the marketing version v5.

• [Fix] - Issue with many connections on PostgreSQL solved.

SmartFace Platform 4.10

Release date: 27-October-2021

• [Added] - Face search in all detected faces stored by SmartFace

• [Added] - GraphQL API for complex data querying

• [Added] - Faster NN models for detection, extraction and liveness integrated for CPU an GPU processing

• [Added] - Support for NVIDIA TensorRT

• [Added] - Support for NVIDIA CUDA 11

• [Added] - USB camera support in docker deployments (Windows, Linux, Mac)

• [Changed] - Processing pipeline performance improvements

• [Changed] - Possibility to retrieve TOP N match results for detected faces in Rapid Video Processing

• [Fixed] - Many small bug fixes

• [Fixed] - I ssues with installing SF on a Windows OS with non-English (specifically Chinese) localization

SmartFace Platform 4.9.1

Release date: 24-September-2021

• [Fixed] - M atching in the live processing pipeline when a member was registered in multiple watchlists

• [Fixed] - E xporting data in the rapid processing pipeline when using RabbitMQ export and when video record is not created in the SmartFace database

SmartFace Platform 4.9

Release date: 28-July-2021

• [Added] - Support for RabbitMQ messaging in the Rapid Video Processing

• [Changed] - More detail to the JAEGER tracing added

• [Changed] - Various performance optimizations done

• [Changed] - Small changes and bug fixes

SmartFace Platform 4.8.1

Release date: 26-May-2021

Small changes and bug fixes:

• [Added] - Support for GPU acceleration for detection/extraction and HW decoding on x64 Linux platform

• [Added] - Possibility to install body parts detector and liveness detector via Service_Installer.bat has been added

• [Changed] - Windows services descriptions have been changed

• [Changed] - Fixed USB camera reading on Windows OS

SmartFace Platform 4.8

• SmartFace Platform is now distributed also in form of docker images available on container registry

• From now on you can install SmartFace Platform on Linux operating system

• We provide also a SmartFace Platform build for embedded device NVidia Jetson Xavier NX and NVidia Jetson AGX Xavier

  • SmartFace Platform for embedded device support HW decoding

• Deployment on Linux OS now supports PostgreSQL database

• We have replaced NoSQL LevelDB by MinIO database

• Latest version of IFace included with lot of new features:

  • Now you can detect presentation attacks with our liveness check

  • Pedestrian tracking introduced

  • Detection and matching algorithms were improved

  • Accuracy for masked faces significantly increased

• Code base migrated to .NET 5

SmartFace Platform 4.7

• SmartFace Platform is able to detect body parts using OpenVINO Human Pose Estimation model

• The first version of a spoof detection (presentation attack detection) powered by the body parts analysis done on an identified person

  • The result of the spoof check is available in the match notification

  • The result is also propagated into NX Witness

• COCO key points and human pose description is available in the pedestrian API models and notifications

• A frame timestamp and eye coordinates are available in a match notification

• Possibility to specify FaceId in /Register and /AddNewFace endpoints requests

• New API endpoint available for possibility to use an external liveness

SmartFace Platform 4.6

• Improvements of accuracy of watchlist autolearn for faces covered by masks:

  • Watchlist autolearn clusters images based on whether the face is covered by a face mask or not

  • Possibility to configure extraction algorithm

SmartFace Platform 4.5

• Faster than real time offline video processing

SmartFace Platform 4.4

• Following ICAO attributes available for detected face. Attributes are propagated in "faces.insert", "faces.extracted", "matchResults.nomatch" and "matchResults.match" notification:

  • Template Quality

  • Yaw Angle

  • Pitch Angle

  • Roll Angle

• New argument "KeepAutolearnPhotos" added into Register method for Watchlist Member, where you can specify whether Register call should keep faces gathered by Watchlist Autolearn

• Smooth preview for live streaming added. Preview now streams all frames not only processed ones

SmartFace Platform 4.3

• Pedestrian detection added

• Information about detected pedestrians is provided in new notification and is also available via new API endpoint

• Tracking is currently not supported for pedestrian detection

SmartFace Platform 4.2

• SmartFace Platform detects whether a person wears a face mask or not. This information is stored in the database and is provided to you in notifications

• Possibility to enable Watchlist autolearn feature and disable data storage (store only matched faces)

• Improved algorithms for extraction. This update requires migration of your data

• Affinity configuration for camera processing available. This feature improves scaling possibilities

• Default matching threshold changed from 24 to 40

SmartFace Platform 4.1

• Integration with Network Optix's Nx Witness VMS added

• Remote detection for the camera service added

• Changed default max eye distance for the camera from 2000px -> 600px

SmartFace Platform 4.0