On the 25th July 1976, an image of Mars was taken by the American Viking 1 Orbiter, it revealed Cydonia, The Face on Mars, leaving people puzzled and amazed. 47 years later, and 140 million miles away, we have created a state-of-the-art face matching platform, inspired after the famous Martian rock formation.



Deployable globally to customers’ accounts or as a managed service, Cydonia is a game-changer for travel and border programmes, digital identity, and verification initiatives across a number of industries such as Government, banking, entertainment events, and retail. Using advanced AI-based facial recognition technology supporting both streaming video and still imagery, Cydonia offers a hugely scalable and cost-effective solution, designed and optimised to run on cloud.

At the foundations of Cydonia lies 'Jezero,' our Secure Cloud Platform, built to be agnostic of any biometric algorithm for maximum flexibility and choice. The platform provides a pre-configured Kubernetes cloud platform, hardened to meet both national security and global compliance standards. Architected leveraging AWS LZA, it not only delivers fundamental value-added services but also includes a cloud operating model, technical standards, and pipeline tooling to facilitate the rapid deployment and integration with wider AWS services if required.

As a biometric vendor agnostic integration company, IdentityE2E carried out benchmark reviews and live trials with AWS, to identify the best face matching system to integrate with our Secure Cloud Platform with which to provide the Cydonia solution. Based on our independent biometric matching performance evaluation and the proven scalability of Paravision’s Image Search Platform to operate on our Secure Cloud Platform, we selected Paravision Search as the first integration with our platform.    It incorporates Paravision’s latest facial recognition algorithms, which have been independently evaluated by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) across more than 5 years of consistent submissions, repeatedly validated as being among the most accurate available.  The seamless integration of Paravision Search means that Cydonia delivers a highly performant, scalable, enterprise-grade face matching solution.

Cydonia has been designed to work with multiple vendor biometric algorithms and as a fully independent biometric specialist, we plan to add additional features and algorithms as they become available and pass our testing requirements to run on cloud native architecture.