Real-Time Facial Recognition and Analytics
QVR Face is a smart facial recognition solution featuring real-time live streaming video analytics from connected cameras. You can use video analytics to set profiles, groups, and event notifications for instant facial recognition. Third-party partners can use the QNAP API to leverage data from QVR Face to build intelligent door access systems, member identification systems, or smart digital signage for applications including automatic door access management, attendance management, and smart retail services.
Build A Smart Facial Recognition System with One NAS
Simply install the QVR Face solution on a QNAP NAS to analyze RTSP video streams from IP cameras, USB cameras or video recordings saved on a NAS. Facial recognition and video analytics are performed on the NAS, making it easier and more cost-effective to build a facial recognition system.
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Real-Time Video Analytics QNAP NAS features powerful computing power for performing on-premise video analytics. No need for cloud computing services or extra computing accelerator cards to achieve real-time video analytics, hence lowering the overall system deployment costs.
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Simultaneous Multi-Channel Analytics QVR Face can simultaneously analyze multiple video streams and identify multiple registered profiles and unknown faces at the same time. You can use the video analytics results to create blacklists or VIP lists.
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Private Cloud Data Storage QVR Face’s video analytics and registered profiles (including identified person's names and photos) are directly saved to on-premise storage. QNAP NAS also provides efficient data protection mechanism to ensure the privacy and security of the facial recognition data.
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Easy API Integration Third-party partners can leverage QVR Face’s facial analytics data (including Event, Metadata Notify and Result) via API to enable automated service management, such as door access systems, member identification systems, or digital signage system.
Identity Authentication Made Easy with Profile Database
You can create facial recognition analytic tasks of live streams from cameras or recordings saved on the NAS in QVR Face. With the video analytics results, you can create profiles of identified persons, set groups (such as VIP groups, unregistered faces, or blacklists) and event notifications. The system will send alert notifications when a person meeting the configured facial identification rules is detected. (Facial identification rule conditions include a person’s gender, age, and group category.) You can also check the video analytics report for history video analytics results.
Note: For security and data privacy concerns, only NAS admin group members have permission to access and use the QVR Face application.
Supports RTSP Streaming Cameras
QVR Face supports Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) and multiple video file types, enabling easy integration of your NAS system with QVR Face for video analytics. You can also use the QNAP QUSBCam2 app to enable RTSP on a USB camera, making intelligent facial recognition systems more budget-friendly.
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Note:
1. Using wide-angle cameras may reduce facial recognition distance.
2. QVR Face does not support fish-eye cameras.
3. QVR Face does not support H.265 video analysis.
Application Scenarios
The facial recognition solution, QVR Face, can be integrated into smart offices, residential communities, research institutions, and retail stores to provide intelligent attendance management, door access control management, VIP welcome systems and smart retail services.
Attendance Management
- Use facial recognition for attendance management to reduce clock-in and clock-out time during rush hours.
- Set VIP groups and notifications. When high-level managers are identified, the system will automatically send out alerts.
- Event reports are generated and enable event screenshot reviews.
Smart Retail
- Set VIP groups and notifications. When an important person or regular customer visits, the system will send notifications to remind you about welcome preparations.
- Integrate QVR Face with digital signage solution to provide tailored promotion information based on age and gender.
- Retailers can group and rank unregistered faces, or register them as regular profiles for further market promotion. Create customized sales strategies by further integrating flow statistics, POS sales records and heat map data.
Door Access Management
- Replace key or ID card-based door access systems with facial recognition technology by integrating QVR Face with door access systems.
- Set a stranger list or blacklist. When a person on the list is nearby, the security guard will be alerted to take immediate action, thus securing the safety of the premises.
QVR Face: Choosing the Right Version
There are two available versions of QVR Face: QVR Face Insight and QVR Face Tiger. You can choose the most suitable QNAP NAS and QVR Face version based on your application scenarios, required functions, and available budgets.
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| Version | QVR Face Insight (Coming soon) | QVR Face Tiger | |||
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| Maximum facial recognition distance | ≦ 1.5 meter | ≦ 3.5 meter | |||
| Face register and stranger detection | |||||
| Event notification | |||||
| Analytics report | |||||
| Gender and age identification | |||||
| Application scenarios | Small offices, residential communities | Medium sized offices, department stores, retail stores, and school campuses | |||
| System memory requirement | Minimum 8 GB RAM (For facial recognition databases with over 2,500 profiles, 16 GB RAM is required) | ||||
| Recommended NAS and performance | NAS Model | Maximum number of profiles* | Maximum number of tasks | Maximum number of profiles* | Maximum number of tasks |
| TS-253B-8G TS-253Be-8G | 500 | 1 | Unavailable | ||
| TVS-672XT-i3-8G | 2,500 | 6 | 2,500 | 6 | |
| TVS-872XT-i5-16G | 5,000 | 8 | 5,000 | 8 | |
| Project Requirement | Please fill out the requirement form | ||||
* The maximum number of profiles comprise of registered profiles and unknown faces are based on the purchased license plan. One profile supports up to 10 facial images of the same person.
Test environment:
Based on the following settings with NAS CPU usage less than 85%:
One facial image per profile.
Analytics task settings: H.264, 720p, 5fps, maximum one face per frame
Try QVR Face Now!
Download QVR Face from the QTS App Center now to experience the hassle-free, automated, real-time facial recognition solution. You can also upgrade your solution anytime by buying a more advanced license plan.
QVR Face Insight (Coming soon): An life-time license free solution that allows the creation of analytics tasks and registration of up to 3 profiles. You can purchase an additional license at a discount price starting from USD 1.99 per month (each NAS is eligible for one discounted license plan).
QVR Face Tiger: Free 1-month trial includes the creation of analytics tasks and registration of up to 10 profiles. You can purchase an additional license at a discount price starting from USD 1.99 per month (each NAS is eligible for one discounted license plan).
Note: Each NAS installed with QVR Face Tiger is limited to one free trial.
*QNAP reserves the right to modify and end the QVR Face basic license plan.
Easy API Integration
With QVR Face API, you can easily integrate a wide range of applications, such as attendance management, door access control, VIP welcome systems, and digital signage. QVR Face’s data includes profiles, groups, age and gender for automating your applications and systems to improve premise security or help create innovative smart retail services.
Note: The API is available in the QVR Face system interface. The APIs only support the same functions as the respective QVR Face versions, for example, QVR Face Insight API only supports QVR Face Insight functions.