Digital camera manufacturers spend millions of dollars developing face recognition technologies for their digital cameras. Digital Signal Processors (DSP) combined with face detection algorithms do the job in modern digital cameras, allowing for better autofocus and proper exposure. These DSPs, however, can only recognize human faces, but currently don't go any further than that. Modern solutions do not provide facial feature detection, and hence their applications are limited.
Facial feature recognition allows automating common post-processing tasks such as red-eye removal and skin tone adjustment. Users of digital cameras benefit from more precise automatic adjustments and touch-ups that don't require user intervention. Enable face recognition in your software without the need to spend millions of dollars with Luxand FaceSDK! No dedicated DSP and no proprietary file formats are required.
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The new face identification and face verification features of Luxand FaceSDK allow developers build non-intrusive biometric authentication systems, and effectively enable touchless logins by simply looking into a webcam. Read more about face recognition
Detect Human Faces and Facial Features
Luxand FaceSDK employs sophisticated algorithms to detect frontal human faces on digital pictures quickly and reliably. The SDK processes the image, detects human faces, and returns the coordinates of 40 facial feature points including the eyes, eye corners, eyebrows, mouth corners, nose tip, and so on.
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Enhanced Photo Editing and Automatic Red-Eye Removal
Developing a project for adjusting or editing digital photographs? Empower your product with automatic adjustments based on human face detection. Add single-click automatic red-eye removal, make better decisions on required tonal adjustments and enhance skin tones with automatic face detection.
Compact digital cameras aren't that great on automatic exposure. Consumers often get dark, underexposed human faces on their pictures. Color balance errors are even more common, adding an unpleasant 'cold' color cast to digital snapshots. Fix underexposed photographs automatically by performing local tone mapping, and enhance digital snapshots with appropriate color balance adjustments based on what people really care about: their faces.
Create 3D Head Models
Developing morphing, animation or 3D software? Create a perfect 'skin' or a 3D head model automatically! Luxand FaceSDK can select human faces and return pictures that contain the coordinates of facial features, making it easy to match facial features of the photograph with the corresponding features on the 3D head.
Make Animated 3D Avatars Completely Automatically
Make a perfect 'talking head' avatar for your online applications with a single photograph of a human face. Current generations of 3D head modeling software require manual selection of major facial features such as eyes, nose and mouth to match them against the same features on the 3D head model. The manual intervention is required to create realistic 3D heads, and is an absolute must if you want animation.
Luxand FaceSDK automates the task, allowing you to make new avatars on-the-fly in a fully automatic mode. Imagine letting your customers upload their picture and immediately getting their animated avatar! Luxand FaceSDK recognizes the face on a photograph, and returns the coordinates of facial features in a list of anchor points. Your software can easily match facial features such as the eyes, mouth, nose, and ears to the points on your 3D head model, creating a head that looks and moves like the original.
Compatibility
Luxand FaceSDK is implemented as a highly compatible Win32 DLL that works with all 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows, and supports many popular development environments. Microsoft Visual C++ and Borland Delphi users get all necessary header files, making it easy to integrate with new or existing projects.
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Create graphical editors or automatic red-eye removal products. Develop solutions for making and animating 3D head models with a single photograph. Morph, animate or transform human faces with Luxand FaceSDK! Download your free evaluation version and start enhancing your applications immediately.
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The application of this technology is incorporated into FaceMorpher - software for automatic image morphing.
