Verification should protect without adding unnecessary difficulty.
Instructions that are difficult to follow and repeated attempts can interrupt registration or authentication. Facial capture needs to account for different users and conditions without relying on movement challenges to perform a liveness check.
Movement challenges can make completion harder for people with different accessibility needs.
Capture difficulties can lead to retries, abandonment, or support requests.
Security needs to address both presentation attacks and manipulation of data within the capture flow.
Operational outcome
Reducing barriers during capture helps simplify the user experience and avoid operational rework.
Capture experience also affects your operation.
Automatic capture with multiple layers of security.
The SDK guides face positioning and captures automatically. Fortface processes liveness without requiring users to blink, smile, or perform a sequence of movements as a verification challenge. The interface can be customized to your company’s visual identity.
Challenge-free liveness and injection attack protection serve complementary purposes: one layer evaluates presentation attacks; the other protects the flow against the insertion of manipulated biometric data.
What changes in capture
Automatic facial capture
Liveness without movement challenges
Accessibility features integrated into the experience
An interface that can be customized to your brand
From integration to results, with guided capture.
Integration
Use native Android and iOS SDKs, the Web SDK, or Secure Link for browser-based journeys without installing an app.
Capture
The user grants camera access and follows positioning guidance. Capture happens automatically when the required conditions are met.
Liveness
Fortface processes liveness using capture data, without requiring movement challenges.
Result
Your application receives the result through the API or, with Secure Link, by webhook, and continues according to your operational rules.
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In SDK integrations, capture data is sent through the client’s backend to the Fortface API. Secure Link provides a hosted web flow and returns the result to the client’s system.
Protection against presentation and injection attacks.
Biometric security involves evaluating the facial presentation and protecting the data flow. Fortface combines defense layers for these two scenarios.
Protection in front of the camera
Photos, videos displayed on screens, and masks can be used to imitate a real person in front of a camera. Fortface liveness was evaluated by iBeta at Levels 1 and 2 in presentation attack detection tests under ISO/IEC 30107-3.
Independent evaluations by iBeta
Compliance with Level 1 and Level 2 test requirements
Liveness without movement challenges
Documented results for the evaluated versions and conditions
Evaluation results apply to the tested versions, platforms, and conditions. Ask the technical team about the scope applicable to your integration.
Speed and usability measured in production.
Indicators published by Fortface to track capture experience and verification processing.
97.9%
First-attempt success
Rate observed during the reference period.
4.1 s
Average capture time
Time for the capture stage, separate from subsequent processing.
Up to 800 ms
P90 processing
Processing time after capture, at the 90th percentile.
95.5 points on the System Usability Scale (SUS)
On a 0 to 100 scale, with an A+ rating.
Production data published by Fortface. Reference period: Q1 2026. Methodology available under a nondisclosure agreement. Results may vary by operational context and do not guarantee performance for every integration.
Accessibility built into the capture experience.
Fortface conducted focus groups and tests with people with different accessibility needs, including people with visual impairments and older adults. Their documented experiences informed changes to messages, navigation, and positioning guidance during capture.
Clear instructions and accessibility features help different users complete capture more independently.
SDK features
Text contrast guided by WCAG
Guidance text designed for readability
Navigation order and element descriptions for screen readers
Messages that complement capture status colors
Positioning messages
Guidance explains how to adjust framing. On compatible devices, detection of an active screen reader allows specific positioning messages to be adapted.
Example with an active screen reader
“Tilt your head to the left.”
Example of framing guidance
“Move the camera to the left.”
Framing guidance is not the same as requiring a sequence of movements as a liveness challenge.
User experiences
Quick to use, with clear instructions before the photo was taken. No errors and a clear success message.
The first positive point is that I managed to complete verification on my own. Even though it took time and was difficult, I did it on my own. The second point is being able to navigate all the screens easily with the screen reader. The third positive point is getting immediate feedback with each movement of my face.
Fast, accessible, and efficient.
From registration to recurring authentication.
Capture and liveness form the entry stage for Fortface facial biometric journeys. Depending on the integrated modules, this stage can be combined with identity verification, 1:1 authentication, 1:N identification, and biometric database management.
Liveness evaluates whether a live person is present. Confirming identity or a match with an existing record depends on the verification or authentication modules used.
Onboarding and registration with liveness
Authentication of critical transactions after registration
Access recovery and sensitive data updates
Periodic revalidation and recurring journeys
See capture and liveness in action.
Explore the capture flow, accessibility features, and integration options. Talk to a specialist about using Fortface in your journey.
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