Unlike traditional motion capture technology, which uses stick-on markers as reference points to track facial expressions, solution relies on powerful facial recognition software and 3D sensors to drive animations. The company's previous offerings included Faceshift Studio, a piece of software that featured animation plugins for Maya and Unity. Various consumer iterations were in development, including a Skype plugin for real-time animated chats. Citing a Swiss company registry from August, MacRumors notes Faceshift was by an outside company, with three corporate directors replaced by Baker & McKenzie attorney Martin Frey. While Frey does not appear to have prior connections to Apple, the Cupertino company has been known to conduct legal operations through Baker & McKenzie.
Further, key employees like, a veteran in the computer graphics industry, and are seemingly no longer with the company, as seen in their respective LInkedIn bios. Apple is staying mum on the subject, however, as are former employees. Apple does not comment on rumor or speculation, a company representative said. If Apple did indeed purchase Faceshift, it wouldn't be the first time the company expressed interest in facial recognition technology with its wallet. In 2010, Apple bought, a Swedish firm that developed software capable of recognizing users based on facial characteristics. Apple also acquired Israeli PrimeSense, a company best known for its collaboration on Microsoft's Kinect system for Xbox.
Apple's interest in and is well documented in the company's patent portfolio. Not much has been seen in the way of shipping products outside of the Photos app, which recognizes faces for automatic image sorting.
Markerless Motion Capture. Capture facial animations that are realistic and emotional, with a system that is affordable and easy to use. Step 1: Scan a set of expressions to train your personalized avatar for tracking. Step 2: Capture a performance with realtime feedback, and optionally improve the accuracy in a postprocessing stage.
Step 3: Animate virtual avatars in faceshift and export the animation to your favorite 3D animation software, or connect to your existing animation pipeline. Tracking. Expressions.
Gaze Tracking. Head Pose Tracking.
Realtime Tracking. Offline Refinement.
30fps Excellent tracking is the core of faceshift. We can track with high accuracy, because we learn your personalized avatar. The avatar is created from a few training expressions, and the resulting tracking is very stable, accurate and expressive. We are tracking 48 blendshape parameters, which allows us to capture even small emotions. We also track the eye gaze and head pose, brining the characters alive. And we do all of this in realtime, giving you the possibility to adapt your acting on the fly.
For the final result, we offer an offline refinement and editing stage which further increases the tracking accuracy. Integration. File Based.
Animation Export (fbx). Blendshape Curves Export (fbx,bvh,ascii). Virtual Marker Export (bvh,ascii). Plugin Based. Maya. Motion Builder.
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TCP/IP streaming via open format All excellence at tracking is useless, if it is not easy to get the results onto your own rigs, in your own workflow. There are four ways of using faceshift: – export the animation on one of our predefined rigs or personalized avatars as a fbx file, which can be imported in every major animation software. – work directly within your animation package with our maya or motion builder plugins. – integrate with existing marker based pipelines. No more need to place the markers accurately on the actor, you define them once and export as bvh or c3d for every take. – and for the real geeks we offer a TCP/IP streaming protocol which gives you access to all the tracking data in real time, allowing you to come up with your very own workflows and applications. Avatars.
Custom Avatar Creation. Fully Rigged. Gaze Tracking We did not set out to make an avatar creation software, but the result is pretty cool.
As a byproduct of using faceshift you get a fully rigged, expressive avatar, which you can export to use in your own applications, and which you can drive with faceshift. And people are coming up with very creative uses for this, from sliced wooden head sculptures to surreal fashion photography. Hardware.
Runs with. PrimeSense Carmine 1.09. Asus Xtion Live Pro. Microsoft Kinect.
Runs on. Mac. Windows. Linux not yet released We support all major operating systems and the affordable RGBD cameras from PrimeSense, Asus, or Microsoft.
And we made sure that our software is efficient such that you can run faceshift and your animation software simultaneously even on current laptops. we sell sensors comparable to the PrimeSense Carmine 1.09.
These are the best sensors commercially available.