Face Tracking & Recognition Software Development Kit

The Face Tracking and Recognition Software Development Kit (FTR-SDK) provides functions to perform face recognition in addition to detecting and tracking faces using a straightforward C-language interface.

Features

Face detection
  • Finds faces of any size, from very small (<10 pixels inter-eye distance) to very large
  • Estimates 3D head pose from frontal to full profile
  • Locates facial landmarks (e.g. eyes, nose, etc.)
Face Tracking
  • Maintains unique IDs for visually continuous face tracks
  • Retains summary statistics as well as detailed trajectory information for each face track
  • Captures highest quality face(s) for each face track
  • Visual attention reduces computational time for video processing
  • Shot boundary detection prevents faces from erroneously being tracked through scene breaks
Face Recognition
  • Matches frontal/near-frontal faces from small (<20 pixels inter-eye distance) to very large
  • Supplies a confidence value that indicates the strength of match between two face images
  • Can extract and store a face biometric from each face image for future matching
Capabilities
  • Robust to variations in appearance due to age, gender, ethnicity, glasses, facial hair, etc.
  • Robust to variable lighting conditions, background scenery and degraded image/video quality
  • Supports real-time video processing from stationary or moving cameras
  • Supports arbitrary image/video pixel resolution
  • Supports single and multi-threaded processing (for multi-core/multi-CPU platforms)
Supporting Modules
  • Image IO Library: provides image read and write support for jpeg, gif, bmp, png, ppm, and pgm image formats
  • Video IO Library: provides frame capture from mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4 (including H.264), and flash video codecs
Sample Programs
  • Provides sample program source code for common use cases:
    • Face detection on single images or lists of images
    • Off-line video processing on input videos or lists of images
    • On-line video processing on input videos or lists of images
    • Finding people in images using face recognition
    • Clustering images using face recognition
  • GUI applications for ease of use and immediate evaluation (coming soon)

System Requirements

Documentation