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Real Time, Real You: Announcing General Availability of Face Liveness Detection

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Jan 30, 2025

A Milestone in Identity Verification

We are excited to announce the general availability of our face liveness detection features, a key milestone in making identity verification both seamless and secure. As deepfake technology and sophisticated spoofing attacks continue to evolve, organizations need solutions that can verify the authenticity of an individual in real time.

During the preview, we listened to customer feedback, expanded capabilities, and made significant improvements to ensure that liveness detection works across three platforms and for common use cases.

What’s New Since the Preview?

During the preview, we introduced several features that laid the foundation for secure and seamless identity verification, including active challenge in JavaScript library. Building on that foundation, there are improvements across the board. Here’s what’s new:

Feature Parity Across Platforms:

Liveness detection’s active challenge is now available on both Android and iOS platforms, achieving full feature parity across all supported devices. This allows a consistent and seamless experience for both developers and end users on all three supported platforms.

Easy integration:

The liveness detection client SDK now requires only a single function call to start the entire flow, making it easier for developers to integrate. The SDK also includes an integrated UI flow to simplify implementation, allowing a seamless developer experience across platforms.  

Runtime environment safety:

The liveness detection client SDK integrated safety check for untrustworthy runtime environment on both iOS and Android devices.

Accuracy and Usability Improvements:

We’ve delivered numerous bug fixes and enhancements to improve detection accuracy and user experience across all supported platforms. Our solution is now faster, more intuitive, and more resilient against even the most advanced spoofing techniques.

These advancements help that businesses integrate liveness detection with confidence, providing both security and convenience.

Security in Focus: Microsoft’s Commitment to Innovation

As identity verification threats continue to evolve, general availability is the start of the journey. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing our face liveness detection technology to address evolving security challenges:

Continuous Support and Innovation:

Our team is actively monitoring emerging spoofing techniques. With ongoing updates and enhancements, we ensure that our liveness detection solution adapts to new challenges. Learn more about liveness detection updates.

Security and Privacy by Design:

Microsoft’s principles of security and privacy are built into every step. We provide robust support to assist customers in integrating and maintaining these solutions effectively. We process the data securely, respecting user privacy and complying with global regulations. By collaborating closely with our customers, we ensure that together, we build solutions that are not only innovative but also secure. Learn more about shared responsibility in liveness solutions

We provide reliable, long-term solutions to help organizations stay ahead of threats.

Get Start Today

We’re excited for customers to experience the benefits of real-time liveness detection. Whether you’re safeguarding financial transactions, streamlining digital onboarding, or enabling secure logins, our solution can strengthen your security.

Explore: Learn more about integrating liveness detection into your applications by this tutorial.

Try it Out: Liveness detection is available to experience in Vision Studio

Build with Confidence: Empower your organization with secure, real-time identity verification. Try our sample code to see how easy it is to get started: Azure-Samples/azure-ai-vision-sdk

A Step Toward a Safer Future

With a focus on real-time, reliable identity verification, we’re making identity verification smarter, faster, and safer. As we continue to improve and evolve this solution, our goal remains the same: to protect identities, build trust, and verify that the person behind the screen is really you.

Start building with liveness detection today and join us on this journey toward a more secure digital world.

Updated Jan 30, 2025
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