Visage Technologies AB

{{Infobox company

|name = Visage Technologies AB

|logo = Visage-logo.png

|type = Private

|foundation = 2002

|founder = Jörgen Ahlberg, Igor S. Pandžić

|location_city = Linköping, Sweden (worldwide headquarters)
Zagreb, Croatia

|location =

|industry = Computer vision, face and head tracking, eye tracking, face animation

|products = visageSDK

|owner = Privately held

|caption =

|homepage = {{URL|http://www.visagetechnologies.com/}}

}}

Visage Technologies AB is a private company that produces computer vision software for face tracking (head tracking, face detection, eye tracking, face recognition) and face analysis (age detection, emotion recognition, gender detection), along with a special business unit in automotive industry.Zoric, Goranka, Robert Forchheimer and Igor S. Pandzic (2010): "On creating multimodal virtual humans - real time speech driven facial gesturing", in: Multimedia Tools and Applications 54(1): 165-179. The primary product of Visage Technologies is a multiplatform software development kit visageSDK.

History

Visage Technologies AB was founded in Linköping, Sweden in 2002.[http://www.visagetechnologies.com/company/ Visage Technologies - Company information] The founders of Visage Technologies were among the main contributors to the MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation International Standard.Pandžić, Igor and Robert Forchheimer (2002): "The origins of the MPEG-4 Facial Animation standard", in: MPEG-4 Facial Animation - The standard, implementations and applications (eds. Igor S. Pandžić and Robert Forchheimer). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons ({{ISBN|0-470-84465-5}}).Pandžić, Igor and Robert Forchheimer (2002): "MPEG-4 Facial Animation Framework for the Web and Mobile Platforms", in: MPEG-4 Facial Animation - The standard, implementations and applications (eds. Igor S. Pandžić and Robert Forchheimer). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons ({{ISBN|0-470-84465-5}}) Since Visage Technologies' founders have academic background, Visage Technologies promotes research collaboration with academic institutions, especially with Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb and University of Linköping.{{Cite web |url=https://www.fer.unizg.hr/en/departments/ztel |title=Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Telecommunications: International Collaboration |access-date=2015-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911130014/http://www.fer.unizg.hr/en/departments/ztel |archive-date=2015-09-11 |url-status=dead |df= }}[http://hotlab.fer.hr/HOTlab/projects "Character animation and Facial Features Tracking" collaboration][http://www.icg.isy.liu.se/en/ University of Linköping, Department of Electrical Engineering, Division of Information Coding] From 2015, the company expanded with a new automotive industry business unit that works with object tracking.

Application

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Visage Technologies AB is licensing facial tracking technology for industrial and academic clients. Some of the previous and current industrial clients are: Fujitsu, BMW, Coca-Cola, Publicis Groupe, Facerig and Emotiv, while some agencies used visageSDK for mobile apps for Samsung, FX, or X Factor, along with marketing campaigns for Disney, Armani or Škoda.[http://visagetechnologies.com/case-studies/applications-clients/ Visage Technologies: Client list]{{Better source|reason=primary|date=September 2017}}

Various academic institutions as well use visage|SDK to aid them in research, such as United States Naval Academy, Princeton University, Rutgers University, City College of New York, and McGill University.{{Better source|reason=primary|date=September 2017}} in the fields of face tracking and detection, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and other computer vision studies and applications.

Recently, visageSDK has been used to create solutions for virtual makeup (Oriflame etc.[http://visagetechnologies.com/solutions/makeup/ Visage Technologies: Virtual Makeup]) and 3D face filtering (face masking).[http://visagetechnologies.com/solutions/facefiltering/ Visage Technologies: 3D face filtering]