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 facial motion capture and eye tracking applications.
Technologies
Face Track
Face Track tracks 3D head poses, facial features, and eyes/gaze for multiple faces in a
camera stream or from a
video file. Face Track has configurable packages that include: facial tracking,
face detection,
head tracking, and eye tracking.
Face Analysis
Face Analysis includes machine learning
algorithms to determine
gender, emotions and age. Face Analysis is compatible with Face Track to find/track faces in images or video, determine gender, emotions, and age for a specified face.
Face Recognition
Face Recognition 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 a 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.
[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 ().][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 ()]
Visage SDK 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. Recently, visage SDK has been used to create solutions in Virtualization makeup and 3D face filtering.
Features
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Tracks multiple faces and facial features in input video, images or in real time
[ Visage Technologies: Main features]
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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)
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Tracking begins immediately when a face is detected
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Recovery from fidelity loss due to occlusions, head rotation, or other errors
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Automatic detection of separate people in front of the camera
See also
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