Company Background

When

AuthenMetric Ltd. is an international company founded in 2004 in Beijing by a team of biometrics experts headed by the famous Prof. Stan Z. Lee as its Chief Scientist.

What

As an authentication solution provider, AuthenMetric develops and markets primarily face recognition and intelligent surveillance products. AuthenMetric is a pioneer in face recognition, holding many international patents, especially in the field of Near-Infrared Face Recognition, resulting in a more accurate, faster, highly co-operative and high availability 2D identification and verification system.

How

AuthenMetric has a unique position as a company due to its direct partnership and proximity to the Center for Biometrics and Security Research in China. This relation combined with one of the fastest growing security markets in the word - China - has enabled AuthenMetric to grow its resources and product portfolio quickly. With numerous outstanding features and its extreme reliability, the AuthenMetric products, solutions and services have now become core value to many large systems integrators and biometric engineers worldwide.

Where

Despite its headquarters based in Beijing, China, AuthenMetric has a remarkable international mindset. In 2008 AuthenMetric created a global team based in Shanghai to handle the world-wide business. The AuthenMetric Global team consists of western and Chinese experts, dedicated to handle technical, commercial, and service questions to anyone in over 10 languages and time-zones.

Focus

AuthenMetric's business model is quite unique as it focuses on 2 market segments with a very different approach. First the traditional security market is mainly handled in co-operation with security system integrators all around the globe, providing these partners world-leading technologies, great value, and dedicated support. Secondly, for several access markets, AuthenMetric works in a collaboration mode with partners of different expertise, interests and culture.

Who

The EyeCU face recognition system Prof. Stan Z. lee developed at Microsoft Research Asia, and which was demonstrated by Bill Gates on CNN, as well as his publications on biometric topics including an encyclopedia has given Prof. Stan Z. Lee a worldwide reputation on this subject. All this helped creating awareness internationally of the quality of AuthenMetric's algorithms. But more recently, the real recognition came when AuthenMetric equipment was selected for the access security of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. During the games the AuthenMetric ticket terminal ,with its high-tech face recognition solutions, provided quick and accurate information and automatic decision support for the Olympic security staf With more than 400,000 visitors successfully, efficiently and securely entering the premises, AuthenMetric established its brand worldwide as a high-quality face recognition supplier.

Why

AuthenMetric's core values are openness, uniqueness, and for people's convenience. AuthenMetric's core business beliefs are to remain technology pioneers, intellectual property independent, and international minded and culturally sensitive. Authenmetric has as goal to become the number 1 face recognition provider in China by 2010 and amongst the top 3 leading companies worldwide by 2015.