RRP S4E joins hands with Japanese firm for facial recognition to detect cancer, dementia

AIRRP S4E is a leading research tech company with design strength in electro optics. The company is structured and supported by the Maharashtra Defence and Aerospace Venture Fund (MDAF) through IDBI Capital and the securities market. It also boasts a tie-up with academia partner IIT-Bombay and the RDB Group.

The company’s founder-chairman Rajendra Chodankar’s vision is to have multiple applications in detection and recognition space based on thermal technology.

That’s why the company has partnered with Ayonix, Japan, a leading developer of 3D face recognition technologies. The team led by Ravi Janarthanan, country manager, Ayonix India, and Ranjith Balan had made this partnering successful.


Facial recognition is one of the most controversial artificial intelligence applications in recent years. As one of the world’s best practitioners of this technology, facial recognition scientist and Ayonix’s founder and CEO Dr Sadi Vural has managed to successfully take the technology to the G20, the United Nations and secret intelligence organisations.

Vural said his next aim is to use technology for dementia and cancer analysis and, more specifically, in alternative medicine. “It will be just like in the past when people used to look at a patient’s face and give a diagnosis. Cases of cancer have increased rapidly. I would argue that they could be detected very early on. There are about 50,000 features that can be examined on the face and each one changes with this disease,” he said.

Vural said the first tests he ran achieved a 55 per cent success rate. Now, he has set the bar to reach 99 per cent, with plans to make available a mobile phone application as well.

Vural is currently working with hospitals and medical research centres to dete t dementia, Alzheimer’s and breast cancer. He said that the tech collaboration with RRP S4E in India will be more effective to serve APAC regions.