Visage SDK (distributed as visage SDK) is a multi-platform

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(SDK) created by Visage Technologies AB. Visage SDK allows software programmers to build facial motion capture and

eye tracking Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze (where one is looking) or the motion of an eye relative to the head. An eye tracker is a device for measuring eye positions and eye movement. Eye trackers are used in research ...

applications.

Technologies

Face Track

Face Track tracks 3D head poses, facial features, and eyes/gaze for multiple faces in a

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stream or from a

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file. Face Track has configurable packages that include: facial tracking, face and facial landmarks/features detection, head tracking, and eye tracking.

Face Analysis

Face Analysis includes machine learning

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to determine

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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 A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a Film frame, video frame against a database of faces. Such a system is typically employed to authenticate users through ID verif ...

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

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, Sweden. The founders were among the contributors to the

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Face and Body Animation International Standard. Visage SDK is used in various application fields, such as game development,

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and

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and

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marketing research Marketing research is the systematic gathering, recording, and analysis of qualitative data, qualitative and quantitative data, quantitative data about issues relating to marketing products and services. The goal is to identify and assess how chan ...

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, assistive technologies,

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, audio processing and

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. Recently, visage SDK has been used to create solutions in virtual

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and 3D face filtering.

Features

* Tracks multiple faces and facial features in input

, images or in real timeVisage Technologies: Main features
/ref> * 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

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closure and eye rotation (gaze direction) * Tracking begins immediately when a face is detected * Recovery from fidelity loss due to occlusions, head rotation, or other errors * Automatic detection of separate people in front of the camera

References

External links

Visage Technologies Home Page
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