Smile Liveness: Latest Innovation in Liveness Detection

Smile liveness combines the best of both active and passive liveness detection, meaning high security with little or no user experience trade-off.

Since the advent of commercially available face liveness detection in 2016, Innovatrics has strived to remain at the forefront of innovation, offering its partners and customers flexibility in how they integrate and deploy technology for face Presentation Attack Detection.

While the industry debates the merits of so-called active versus passive liveness detection, we believe that flexibility is the way forward. We started out offering active liveness detection with users being challenged to follow a moving dot on their screens. Then, in 2020, we introduced fully passive liveness detection, requiring just a single frame to assess the liveness of a given face with no interaction from the user. Today, we are pleased to introduce our first “semi-active” liveness detection component to Digital Onboarding Toolkit, Smile liveness.

After capturing their selfie, users are simply asked to smile. No complex challenges, no eye or head movement, and no spoken phrases. Just a smile.

On the user’s device, our SDK embedded inside our customer’s app is able to detect changes in the user’s mouth status in real time and capture multiple frames of the user’s face with varying facial expressions. These frames are then sent to the server for evaluation by our iBeta Level 2 accredited liveness detection algorithms. More frames mean more data. And more data means higher accuracy.

This latest addition to Digital Onboarding Toolkit, our full tech stack for building remote identity verification applications, means system integrators and end customers can configure their onboarding workflows with randomization and unprecedented fallback scenarios, ensuring they stay one step ahead of identity fraudsters.

What’s more, Smile liveness is so simple that it has almost no effect on user experience, which keeps abandonment rates low. Customers can try out the technology at the Seamless Middle East show starting May 31st at Innovatrics booth #E10 and in Innovatrics iOS and Android demos after the show.