[2] Also in March 2017, NtechLabs FindFace algorithm won in the EmotionNet Challenge automatic emotion recognition competition organized by Ohio State University.
In the fall of 2017, NtechLab won the facial recognition technology competition organized jointly by NIST and IARPA, in two nominations out of three (“Identification Speed” and “Verification Accuracy”).
[12] The technology was made public as a web service that helps to find people on the social network VK using their photos in February 2016.
• The FindFace Security application, implemented in several cities during the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia, made it possible to detain more than 180 people included in the offenders' bases, some of whom were on the federal wanted list .
With the help of video cameras, it was possible to restore the chain of events and identify those involved, one of whom was discovered and detained at one of the subsequent matches.
[18] The NtechLab company that created the service was founded in 2015 by a graduate of the Moscow State University Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Artem Kukharenko and businessman Alexander Kabakov.
In 2022, NTechLab was accused of assisting the Russian and Belarus government by tracking thousands of political activists which led to their unconstitutional detentions and arrests.
[6][22] These efforts were organized by users of a Russian imageboard Dvach who claimed that women in the sex industry are “corrupt and deceptive”, according to Global Voices.