Neven Vision - Formerly Eyematic - Introduces Next Generation of Its Machine Vision Technology;...

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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004

Neven Vision, the company formed from facial technology leader Eyematic in May 2003, is providing customers with its next generation facial recognition

and facial feature tracking software, giving them the fastest, most accurate facial analysis "engine" on the market. The software, under the Eyematic name, was amongst the best-performing facial recognition systems in the U.S. Government's 2002 Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT).

"Neven Vision purchased from Eyematic the finest software in the machine vision space," said Dr. Hartmut Neven, Neven Vision's founder and CEO. "Now we've introduced several significant upgrades to this technology, including dramatic efficiency improvements that allow it to run on embedded platforms, which is critical to the consumer electronics market. We've also made great strides in throughput, which is essential for biometric applications."

The latest generation of Neven Vision's facial feature tracking software will allow wireless operators and consumer electronics companies to deliver fun applications such as avatar animation and real-time video effects for multimedia messaging. Some of Neven Vision's key achievements in this area include an increased ability to track features in real world conditions that are frequently characterized by poor illumination and non-frontal head poses. The company is in negotiations with global wireless carriers seeking to implement its technology.

For access control and security applications, Neven Vision has dramatically increased the performance of its face detection module, which is now able to recognize multiple faces within the same image.

Neven Vision purchased Eyematic's assets in July 2003. Dr. Hartmut Neven, one of the world's leading machine vision experts, led the technical team that created the original Eyematic system. Dr. Neven is also developing groundbreaking "next generation" face and object recognition technologies at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI).

About Neven Vision, Inc.

Neven Vision is a leading provider of machine vision technology for a variety of markets including the consumer electronics and mobile phone industry, government and private sector security applications. Its facial analysis suite comprises modules for face detection, face recognition and facial feature tracking, and is widely respected as the most comprehensive and accurate solution for visual facial analysis. The software is currently integrated in numerous products ranging from facial biometrics for security and defense to facial feature tracking for new forms of visual communication on mobile phones. Leading research institutions around the world also use Neven Vision's software. A specialty of Neven Vision is embedded machine vision software for low cost microprocessors and digital signal processors. Neven Vision is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and the company has an office in Tokyo. More information is available at www.nevenvision.com.