Visage SDK

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Visage SDK
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Developer(s)Visage Technologies AB
Stable release
8.2b2.5242 / 6 April 2017
Platform
TypeSoftware development kit
Websitewww.visagetechnologies.com

Visage SDK (distributed as visage|SDK) is a multi-platform software development kit (SDK) created by Visage Technologies AB. visage|SDK allows software programmers to build a wide variety of facial motion capture and eye tracking applications for various operating systems, mobile and tablet environments, and embedded systems, using computer vision and machine learning algorithms.

Technologies[]

Example of Visage SDK (Visage Technologies' main product) face tracking and analysis (gender, age and emotion recognition

FaceTrack[1] tracks 3D head poses, facial features, and eyes/gaze for multiple faces in a camera stream or from a video file. FaceTrack has highly configurable packages that include: facial tracking, face and facial landmarks/features detection, head tracking, and eye tracking.

FaceAnalysis[2] includes machine learning algorithms to determine gender, emotions and age. FaceAnalysis is compatible with FaceTrack to find/track faces in images or video, and determine the gender, emotions and age for the specified face.

FaceRecognition[3] is used to identify or verify a person from a digital image or a video source using a pre-stored facial data. visage|SDK's face recognition algorithms can measure similarities between people and recognize a person’s identity from frontal facial image by comparing it to pre-stored faces.

History and application[]

The development of visage|SDK began in 2002 when Visage Technologies AB was founded in Linköping, Sweden. The founders were among the contributors to the MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation International Standard.[4][5]

visageSDK is used in various application fields, such as game development, arts and entertainment, marketing and retail, marketing research, automotive industry, industrial safety, assistive technologies, health care, biometrics, audio processing and robotics. Recentyl, visage|SDK has been used to create solutions in virtual makeup and 3D face filtering.

Features[]

  • Tracks multiple faces and facial features in input video, images or in real time[6]
  • Returns 2D and 3D head pose, the coordinates of facial feature points (e.g. chin tip, nose tip, lip corners, mouth contour, chin pose, eyebrow contours), fitted 3D face model, and eye closure and eye rotation (gaze direction)
  • Instant initialization: tracking begins immediately when a face is detected
  • Can recover from any loss of fidelity due to occlusions, rotation of the head, or other errors.
  • Automatically detects separate people in front of the camera
  • High-performance software across the supported platforms

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Visage Technologies: FaceTrack
  2. ^ Visage Technologies: FaceAnalysis
  3. ^ Visage Technologies: FaceRecognition
  4. ^ Pandžić, Igor and Robert Forchheimer (2002): "The origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation standard", in: MPEG-4 Facial Animation - The standard, implementations and applications (eds. Igor S. Pandžić and Robert Forchheimer). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 0-470-84465-5).
  5. ^ Pandžić, Igor and Robert Forchheimer (2002): "MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile Platforms", in: MPEG-4 Facial Animation - The standard, implementations and applications (eds. Igor S. Pandžić and Robert Forchheimer). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 0-470-84465-5)
  6. ^ Visage Technologies: Main features

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