v4.0 [Dec 8, 2011]
FaceSDK 4.0 improves the speed and accuracy of facial feature detection, with 66 facial features detected in real-time. The 4.0 version supports multi-core processors to boost the performance of face recognition, face detection, and facial feature detection. Support for MJPEG IP cameras has been added.
The increase in speed when using all cores of an Intel i7 processor is 315% for facial feature detection,* 250% for face detection, 130% for face template creation, and 225% for eye detection. The facial feature detection speed is 9.3 frames per second (including face detection using real-time parameters).
Support for Java language has been added. A CImage class for easy manipulation with images on .NET has been added. JPEG file loading was speeded up by 390%.**
More samples were added:
* Lookalikes samples (C#-DB, C#-SQLite, C-DB, C-SQLite) to work with Microsoft SQL and SQLite databases (C#.NET, C )
* LiveFacialFeatures to detect facial features in real-time (C#.NET, VB.NET, Java, Delphi, C )
* IPCamera to work with IP cameras (C#.NET, VB.NET, Java, C )
* FaceTracking, FacialFeatures, and LiveRecognition now feature a Java version.
The LiveRecognition demo application (available on the Welcome screen after the installation) introduces new, more robust usage of FaceSDK recognition algorithms. The Facial Feature Demo application, which tracks a person's facial features in real-time, was added.
Functions to control the number of cores used by FaceSDK were added.
Unicode filename support on Windows was added.
v3.0 [Mar 28, 2010]
- Robust frontal face detection
- Detection of multiple faces in a photo
- Head rotation support: –30..30 degrees of in-plane rotation and –30..30 degrees out-of-plane rotation
- Determines in-plane face rotation angle
v1.5 [Mar 3, 2008]
Improved face detection
