Face detection has appeared in the camera era earlier. It can help focus on faces when taking portrait photos, which can greatly improve the clarity of the photos taken.
The research of face recognition system began in the 1960s. After the 1980s, with the development of computer technology and optical imaging technology, it has been improved, and the initial stage of application was in the late 1990s, and it was based on the United States, Germany and Japan. Technical realization is the main task; the key to the success of a face recognition system is whether it has a cutting-edge core algorithm, and the recognition result has a practical recognition rate and recognition speed.
So far, the current face recognition system has integrated artificial intelligence, machine recognition, machine learning, model theory, expert system, video image processing and other professional technologies. At the same time, it needs to combine the theory and implementation of intermediate value processing, which is a biological feature. The latest application of recognition and the realization of its core technology show the transformation from weak artificial intelligence to strong artificial intelligence.
In China, the development of face recognition algorithms is also advancing by leaps and bounds, and a number of technology companies with core algorithm competitiveness have gradually emerged.
These are the top ten Chinese face recognition companies in 2020:
1.SenseTime
As the world’s leading artificial intelligence platform company, SenseTime is the first “intelligent vision” national new-generation open innovation platform for artificial intelligence designated by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. At the same time, SenseTime is also the world’s largest artificial intelligence innovation company in terms of total financing and valuation.
SenseTime’s mission and vision is “Insist on originality and let AI lead human progress”. The company independently developed and established the world’s top deep learning platform and supercomputing center, and launched a series of leading artificial intelligence technologies, including: face recognition, image recognition, text recognition, medical image recognition, video analysis, unmanned driving and Remote sensing, etc. SenseTime has become Asia’s leading AI algorithm provider.
2.Megvii Technology
Megvii has the world’s largest computer vision (Computer Vision) research institute. The research team has developed advanced algorithms, laying the foundation for many cutting-edge artificial intelligence applications in the world.
Since 2017, Megvii has won 28 world championships in various top international artificial intelligence competitions, setting a record of three consecutive championships in COCO (one of the most authoritative international competitions in the field of computer vision).
Megvii is one of the few companies in the world with a self-developed deep learning framework, and Tianyuan framework has been officially open sourced. The self-developed new generation of AI productivity platform Brain++ can help companies quickly and efficiently establish the AI infrastructure in the enterprise, and develop various new algorithms with less manpower and shorter time to meet the long-tail needs of the industry.
3.Hikvision
Hikvision is a video-centric intelligent IoT solution and big data service provider. Its business focuses on comprehensive security, big data services and smart business, and builds an open and cooperative ecosystem for users in the field of public services, enterprises and users. SME users provide services and are committed to building smart cities and digital enterprises with cloud-side integration, integration of information and information, and integration of digital intelligence.
The company has more than 40,000 employees worldwide (as of December 31, 2019), among which there are more than 19,000 R&D personnel and technical service personnel. R&D investment accounts for 9.51% of the annual operating revenue (2019), which is among the best in the industry.
4.Yitu Technology
YITU engages in innovative research on artificial intelligence, and is committed to combining advanced artificial intelligence technology with industrial applications to build a safer, healthier and more convenient world.
Yitu takes an international perspective to form a world-class R&D team, uses solid technical strength to promote industrial development, participates in basic scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence, and is committed to comprehensively solving the fundamental problems of machine viewing, listening, and understanding. Computer vision, natural language understanding, speech recognition, knowledge reasoning, robotics and other technical fields have made breakthrough contributions.
YITU’s full-stack self-developed technology has served multiple fields such as smart cities, smart healthcare, and smart business.
5.Yuncong Technology
Yuncong Technology Group Co., Ltd. (“Yuncong Technology” for short) was incubated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is the first artificial intelligence leader to build three national platforms at the same time and participate in the formulation of national and industry standards. It is also the backbone of the country’s new infrastructure development. representative. Relying on the world’s leading human-machine collaboration platform, the cloud applies the core technologies of perception, cognition, and decision-making in a closed loop to cross-scenarios and cross-industry smart solutions to comprehensively improve production efficiency and quality, so that AI can truly benefit people and boost The country is transforming and upgrading from digital to smart.
6.Hanwang Technology
Hanwang Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 1998. As a pioneer in the domestic artificial intelligence industry, Hanwang Technology has been devoted to the research and application of intelligent interactive technologies in multiple fields for more than 20 years. Has a number of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights in the fields of handwriting recognition, optical character recognition (OCR), face recognition, handwriting input, etc., among which handwritten Chinese character recognition won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, and OCR recognition won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress prize.
7.Deepglint
Deepglint is a leading artificial intelligence IoT technology company in the country. Focus on transforming advanced artificial intelligence technology into products and services with low-cost, large-scale deployment capabilities, and deeply integrate application scenarios to provide users with high-performance, reliable and practical intelligent solutions.
Currently, Deepglint provides comprehensive smart solutions and services including smart sensors, smart recognition, smart cloud computing and service robots to customers across the country and the world in the fields of smart security, smart retail, smart banking and new energy.
8.Deep Wake Technology
Deep Wake Technology, invested by well-known institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences Capital, National Key Jiahe, China Investment Capital, Jingwei Venture Capital, Kunzhong Capital, Kaixuan Venture Capital, Zero2IPO Capital, and has international advanced independent intellectual property rights of machine vision core algorithms and multi-source big data The system platform is dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence innovative technologies, solves industry problems and pain points, and provides disruptive technological approaches for industry upgrades. It is one of the few domestic companies with artificial intelligence mass customization solutions capabilities.
Deepwake Technology combines big data and artificial intelligence technology, and integrates human faces, portraits, vehicles and other multi-dimensional data sources through an intelligent big data integrated management platform. It has gradually developed into a hierarchical and classified spatio-temporal information analysis system. A deep-wake big data platform for heterogeneous data.
9.Ruiwei Technology
Ruiwei Technology was established in 2012. It is one of the four A-level companies in China’s face recognition. It is a leading image perception product and solution provider in China. It has successively received strategic investments from Intel and Greenland Group.
Ruiwei not only always adheres to the research and development of independent algorithms, but also has a core research and development team composed of many senior experts in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision. At the same time, it is also a practitioner and pioneer of AI implementation. It is used in smart airports, smart parks, and smart cars. Large-scale applications in areas such as Internet, smart retail, and smart IoT, and achieved a number of industry firsts.
10.Yi+
Beijing Moshanghua Technology is a leading computer vision engine service provider, providing enterprises with intelligent and commercialized solutions for visual content. Its brand Yi+ is an artificial intelligence computer vision engine, and Yi+ is a fashion goods search engine.
The company has reached a leading level in the detection, recognition, search and recommendation of scenes, general objects, commodities, and faces in images and videos. Technical indicators such as image and video recognition accuracy have won ten world firsts in top computer vision competitions; and the accuracy of face recognition reached 99.83% in the latest LFW list in March 2018, ranking first in the world.