CyberLink announces strategic technology partnership with MediaTek

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 -- CyberLink Corp, a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, has revealed a strategic technology partnership with global fabless semiconductor company, MediaTek.

Thus, CyberLink’s FaceMe® AI biometric authentication engine will now support MediaTek’s i350 Edge AI platform.

The partnership enables biometric technologies installation on a wide range of smart appliances, smart homes, public interface kiosks and retail point-of-sale systems for advanced security and authentication features.

As a leading global brand with expertise in smart handheld devices, smart homes, wireless technologies and other connected solutions, MediaTek launched the i350 edge AI platform designed for mainstream AIoT applications that require vision and voice edge processing.

To support the MediaTek i350 edge AI platform, CyberLink’s FaceMe® facial recognition engine provides functionality for facial detection, recognition and feature extraction, capable of conducting identity verification in merely 0.12 second.

“The addition of biometric identification to AIoT creates an incredible opportunity to improve security and access control with edge devices,” CyberLink Chief Executive Officer, Dr Jau Huang said in a statement.

Based on machine learning and deep neural networks, CyberLink FaceMe® has an accuracy rate of 99.7 per cent. It ranks amongst the most precise and fastest facial recognition engines in the United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology Face Recognition Vendor Test.

For details on CyberLink, visit www.cyberlink.com.

-- BERNAMA