Intel Corporation Adopts FaceIt Engine for Fulfillment of 21st Century Connected.Home Initiative - licenses Visionics' face recognition technology - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Sept 13, 1999

Visionics Corporation, the leading developer of face recognition technology worldwide, announced Monday that Intel Corporation has adopted the FaceIt engine for its 21st century Connected.Home initiative, an effort to establish affordable, easy-to-use, and broadly deployed network connectivity to and within the home.

Intel's Connected.Home initiative researches and develops technologies that meet the information, communication and accessibility needs within the home. The connected home is an emerging infrastructure of household networking specifications and technologies. These technologies include new and existing methods of delivering content as well as the technologies, such as FaceIt, that control and customize a variety of electronic devices.

"Face recognition technology gives the computer an added dimension of intelligence. Until today, computers have had no awareness of their users," said Dr. Joseph J. Atick, president and CEO of Visionics Corporation. "Imagine a situation in which a child attempts to access a desktop and FaceIt recognizes the child and immediately customizes the options based on his/her favorite cartoons, academic interests, etc."

"Face recognition is a user-friendly and non-intrusive biometric technology ideally suited for use in the home. Intel is pleased to be working with a strong player such as Visionics in fulfilling our vision of the connected home," said Casey Fale, Product Manager of Intel Corporation.

Connected.Home will be a major element of Intel's upcoming Developer's Forum. The proof of concept was developed under the supervision of Intel Corporation by New Jersey based QVoice, Inc., which is also providing voice recognition as a secondary biometric for the Connected.Home initiative.

"As a company which specializes in multi-layered biometrics, it is clear to me that FaceIt technology is the most appealing in the home environment since it is inexpensive, easy to use, friendly and has no criminal connotations," said Norm Hughes, President of QVoice Inc.

The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference is a semiannual, three-day conference targeted at business and consumer desktop, mobile, workstation and server hardware manufacturers, peripheral and software vendors working on advanced platform solutions. The conference provides attendees with 13 informative technology tracks comprised of more than 100 in-depth sessions and 8 hands-on labs. The theme for Fall IDF's conference is "Advancing the Internet" and it will outline technology directions in support of Intel's vision of one billion connected computers.

Headquartered in New Jersey, Visionics Corporation is the leading developer of facial recognition technology worldwide. The company has pioneered the field of facial recognition with its software engine, FaceIt, which allows computers to rapidly and accurately recognize faces. The technology enables a large number of real-world products and applications built by Visionics OEM partners and software developers, such as the enhancement of CCTV systems, large-scale identification systems for combating: ID fraud, mass-market authentication systems for information security and e-commerce. More information on Visionics can be accessed via the Company web site at http://www.visionics.com or by calling Frances Zelazny, Marketing Manager at 201-332-9213.

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

QVoice, Inc a privately held company, was founded in 1992. In 1994, the company developed and released its voice authentication technology for stand alone PC's, laptops and corporate networks. Later, the company licensed face recognition and fingerprint technology for incorporation into its biometric security software product line, the newest member of which is called WhoIsIt? More information on QVoice can be accessed via the company web site at http://www.qvbiometrics.com or by calling 973-786-6978.