SAFR SCAN’s integrates tightly into major access control systems by importing person face and credentials and distributing those to all SAFR SCAN devices on your network. This capability makes a day-1 deployment a possibility where all cardholders in your organization can start using SAFR SCAN as soon as it is deployed. Unlike other access control systems, you do not need to go thru the expense of enrolling all cardholders physically – just use your existing badge images.
For some users, badge images may be out of date. This may result in slow face matching times and in extreme cases, cardholders not being able to get access. For these cases, SAFR allows operators to add alternate faces to existing person records to improve results.
This article explains a few options for how to enroll alternate faces.
Following are some of the options for adding alternate faces:
Each of these options are explain in the sections below.
SAFR SCAN enables a self-enrollment mode where cardholders can approach SAFR SCAN, tap their badge and present their face to enroll. The card is validated by passing credentials to the panel and SCAN will use the panels response (access granted or denied) to determine if the face should be enrolled. If the panel returns an access granted response, a new person record is added to SAFR SCAN and synchronized to all other SAFR SCAN devices. Once added, carholder can authenticate with face only.
AutoEnroll mode is also able to improve faces as users present their face each time they use SAFR SCAN. SAFR SCAN does this by comparing the face image in the picture to the stored face image. If the face in the presented matches with sufficiently high confidence and the new face image is of better quality than existing face image, SCAN will add an auxillary face image to the existing record or update the auxillary face image with an even better image.
AutoEnroll utility must be added to SAFR. See below link for information on installing and configuration AutoEnroll.
https://docs.real.com/support/tools/autoenroll
SAFR SCAN reports all transactions to SAFR Server. These events can be viewed and managed through SAFR Desktop Events Window. SAFR Desktop Events Window provides an option to add the face from an event to an existing person record as an alternate face.
Following is a person record shown in in SAFR Desktop People Window
The face was extracted from Genetec through cardholder sync but is out of date and face matching can be slow in challenging lighting conditions. To improve performance, a new photo in similar lighting conditions will help. Section below explains how to add an additional face captured from SAFR SCAN.
To add faces from SAFR Desktop Event Window do the following.
SAFR will now use both face image for all subsequent access attempts by this person.
SAFR offers a Mobile App that can be used to enroll faces. This can be done either though the Camera or Photo Library on the phone. SAFR Mobile App offers the same choices to merge an existing face to already enrolled persons. Below explains how this is done from Camera or from Photo Library.
This method may not always work if SAFR Mobile App recognizes the face. If so, take a photo of the face and use the Import feature described below.
This sequence is shown in the screens below.
Select “Import” from “…” |
Take photo |
SAFR shows duplicate. |
Confirm add duplicate. |
You can provide the same actions by importing a photo from the photo library. This works the same way as described above.
SAFR offers many options to import faces from an image file. In all cases, SAFR will search for duplicates and offer options such as replace existing face or add as alternate face.
Duplicates |
Low Quailty |