Image Metrics, Inc. Launches Live Driver(TM), Enabling Real-Time Facial Animation for Digital Characters
February 08, 2012 at 08:59 am EST
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Image Metrics, Inc. announced the availability of its Live Driver Software Development Kit (SDK). Live Driver is a groundbreaking real-time facial analysis and animation technology that adds the capability for 3D characters to mirror a user's movements, expressions and emotions in real-time, utilizing nothing more than a standard webcam. The Live Driver technology has been launched as an SDK that allows developers to easily incorporate it into a wide range of applications. By capturing facial movements through any consumer-grade video camera in real-time, Live Driver translates a person's expressions and emotions onto the faces of characters in any virtual setting, from online games to video chat to user-created videos. The result is an unprecedented level of natural animation, immersion and personalization in social media, gaming and online communication platforms. Live Driver was developed in collaboration with professional animators and world-renowned computer vision experts on the Image Metrics team. The software tracks in real-time key features of the face on every frame, and instantly analyzes the most nuanced facial expressions, which allows the character to replicate a user's precise facial movement and, even more importantly, to convey their actual emotions. Live Driver is a lightweight client application with minimal hardware requirements.
Image Metrics, Inc. is a provider of computer vision and machine learning for face and body. The Company, through its algorithms create custom augmented reality experiences for brands. It delivers easy-to-used software to digital media, consumer electronics, interactive entertainment, and other software companies. The Company's algorithms make the recognition and real-time animation of nuanced expressions and emotion possible with a camera on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Its technologies can be integrated into computers, tablets, smartphones, interactive television, and other digital devices. The Company offers a range of technology, including real-time three-dimensional (3D) body tracking. The Companyâs technology includes cosmetics virtual try on (VTO), body augmented reality (AR), eyewear virtual try on and social face AR. The Company offers real-time two-dimensional (2D), and 3D body tracking for mobile devices for both iOS and Android.
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