Market Size (2015)
2015
$2.56M
Vertical: ICTBase Year: 20159 Sections
Market Size (2015)
2015
$2.56M
Projected (2022)
2022
$8.93M
CAGR (2015–2022)
19.5%
19.5%Key Players
115+
This report covers Facial Recognition Market with forecasts from 2015 to 2022. 115 key companies are profiled.
The Facial Recognition Market market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 19.5% from 2015 to 2022.
Historical performance and future projections (2020–2030, USD Billion)
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View Subscription PlansThe report covers demand and revenue of various technologies used in facial recognition market which includes thermal, 2D, 3D, facial analytics and others. These technologies are considered based on their global & regional demand, growth rate, future regulations, and current preferences.
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View Subscription PlansThis report applies a rigorous multi-stage research process combining primary interviews, secondary data sources, and bottom-up market modelling to ensure accuracy and completeness across all segments and geographies.
Base Year
2015
Historical Period
2015 – 2015
Forecast Period
2015 – 2022
Primary Interviews
150+
Historical data (2015–2015) and forecast period (2015–2022)
Our research process spans primary interviews with industry stakeholders combined with comprehensive secondary data analysis, validated through triangulation across multiple independent sources.
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View Subscription PlansPorter’s Five Forces Analysis has been undertaken to determine the competitive intensity and attractiveness of the facial recognition market. Each of the five forces is analyzed against some of the key criteria influencing the impact of that force. Each of the criteria is assigned a risk rating depending upon its impact on the force (high, medium and low).
Market estimates by geography (2022)
InsightNorth America leads with $5.37M by 2022, while Asia Pacific is projected to grow fastest at a 22.5% CAGR.
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View Subscription Plans| REGION | 2015 | 2015 | 2022 | CAGR | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | $0.40M | $0.89M | $1.66M | 22.5% | 19% |
| Europe | $0.48M | $0.86M | $1.38M | 16.3% | 15% |
| North America | $1.40M | $3.00M | $5.37M | 21.2% | 60% |
| Middle East and Africa | $0.29M | $0.40M | $0.51M | 8.4% | 6% |
| Total | $2.57M | $5.15M | $8.92M | 19.5% | 100% |
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$8.95M
| APPLICATION | REVENUE ($B) | GROWTH RATE | MARKET PENETRATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Facial Recognition | $3.66M | 19.5% | 81% |
| 2D Facial Recognition | $2.21M | 19.5% | 81% |
| Thermal imaging | $1.53M | 19.5% | 72% |
| Skin Texture Analysis | $1.07M | 19.5% | 81% |
| Others | $0.48M | 19.5% | 53% |
* Revenue projections based on 2025 estimates. Growth rates represent CAGR 2024–2030. Market penetration indicates current adoption rate within addressable market segments.
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Analytical insights on Facial Recognition Market covering market dynamics, competitive landscape, and strategic outlook.
The Facial Recognition Market market is projected to reach $8.93M by 2022, growing at 19.5% CAGR. The 3D Facial Recognition segment holds the largest share.
The Facial recognition system can pick out targeted individual in a crowd. This ability has developed a hope of serving various applications such as law enforcement, national security, and counterterrorism. Facial recognition technology has ability to detect any suspicious activity or a suspicious person from a mile of distance without involving anyone personally. After connected to surveillance system it monitors outdoor and indoor places and alert the authorities if detect any presence of known or suspected terrorist and criminals whose image is already enrolled in a system’s database.
Due to ability of recognizing suspeciuos activity from a mile of distance and due to significant increase in criminal activities such as terrorist attackes, frauds, robbery, murders and others, companies and government are taking interest in implementing facial recognition technology in their respective premises. Therefore, it is emerging as a highly beneficial security system to be implemented in ATMs, airports, super markets, or at any other publicly occupied places.
Although facial recognition software has major benefots over fingerprint, or voice recognition technology, but still it is not able to deliver 100% accuracy in the result due to its technical limitation. The image quality, image size, face angle, storage issue, are some of the major technical challenge faced by investigators who are using facial recognition solutions.
Current facial recognition still identifies wrong suspect sometimes which later led to controversy. For instance, in 2015, Google was criticized for identifying a black guy as gorillas due to wrong result produced by its facial recognition software. Other conditions where face recognition is not able to give proper results are poor lighting, or partial covered face of the subject by usinf props such as sunglasses, hats, scarves, long hair, or make up or mask.
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Profiles of 115 companies operating in the Facial Recognition Market market, including revenue, employee count, and market positioning where available.
Showing 115 of 115 companies
Nuance Communication Inc.
Founded in 1992, Nuance Communications is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for business and consumer across the globe. Headquatered in U.S., company has more than 35 regional offices, with a significant international presence in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan and the UK. The company has many subsidiaries, a few of them are Equitrac, Dictaphone, Loquendo, SpeechWork and others. The solutions provided by the company are used every day by people and businesses for tasks and services, such as requesting account information from a phone-based self-service solution, dictating records, searching the mobile Web by voice, entering a destination into a navigation system, or working with PDF documents and others. Headquatered in the U.S., the company operates in three segments, based on industry-based solutions, as- healthcare segment, mobile segment, enterprise segment and document imaging segment, while considering the company’s offerings, the company’s revenue sources are segmented as products & licensing, professional services, hosting services and maintenance & support. The products & licensing segment Helds the largest share of USD 696.2 million of the company’s total revenue of 2015.
Fare clock
Founded in 2010, Fareclock develops and operates cloud-based employee time-attendance softwares. Headquatered in the U.S., the company provides systems that are highly scalable and capable of supporting the entire business spectrum, from small business to large corporations, at many locations across the globe. The company offers a unique and robust software service based on face recognition and geo-tracking. The company’s mobile time clock uses facial recognition with 99.9% accuracy and its face liveliness detection rejects any photo is held in front of the camera, also making it a very efficient product. By embedding facial recognition software to the existing time clock the company has enhanced its business value.
Face++
Founded in 2005, Face++ is one of the leading providers of facial technology. The company is Headquatered in China. The company uses latest technologies and data mining to provide three main services as Face detection, Facial recognition and Facial analysis. The company has a huge database for the face technology. The company provides SDKs and APIs for a wide range of devices as mobiles, smart TVs, desktops and others. The company provides high performance, accurate face detection, rapid processing and unlimited number of face detection in an image.
Key Lemon Ltd.
Founded in 2008, Key Lemon focuses in powerful face recognition and speaker verification technologies serving cloud computing and embedded markets. The company is headquatered in Switzerland. The company’s latest face recognition algorithm takes full benefit of 3D depth sense camera by efficiently combining depth, near infrared and color information to provide enhanced security against photo/video spoofing attacks. The company's advanced face recognition technology is available as a multi-platform SDK, online web service and in a unique client-server solution for developers and manufacturers many industries. Recently the company parterned with Synaptics to seamlessly integrate secure facial biometrics with Natural ID fingerprint authentication.
Kairos AR
Founded in 2012, Kairos is an artificial intelligence company which specializes in facial recognition. Headquartered in Florida, the company delivers fraud management and work automation solutions with features such as 3D facial recognition, one-to-many identification, anti-spoofing, mood detection, gender analysis, security and compliance, mobile authentication, and others. The company offers two major applications namely SDKs and APIs in its software segment.
Ayonix Corporation
Founded in 2007, Ayonix Corporation is Global Face Technology Company. The company is headquatered in Japan and has offices in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Poland, Turkey and United States. Ayonix is an innovation technology company that develops its own patented technologies. The company focuses on Face recognition and face-related technologies. The company develops and provides the world's fastest 3D face technology as SDK (Software development Kit) and other Out-of-box-products. The company operates in two main business segments of product segment and solution segment. The company provides a wide range of facial recognition products which are segmented as security produts, marketing products and mobile products. Also, the company offers various solutions as government, medical, retail, access control, public security and mobile solutions. In an event named Intersec Dubai 2017, company has released an engine with ultra-speed by recognizing one face from 6 million records in 100ms.
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