Francisco De Jesùs.
Companies to demonstrate nViso's powerful facial
analysis software running on CEVA-MM3101 imaging & vision platform
at Mobile World Congress 2014.
CEVA, Inc. the leading licensor of
silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores,
and nViso (www.nviso.ch),
a leading provider of 3D facial imaging technology, today announced
that the companies have partnered to develop a solution for mobile
devices that includes nViso's unique emotion detection capabilities. The
solution combines nViso's facial micro-expression recognition software
with the CEVA-MM3101 imaging and vision platform
to deliver a broad set of high quality facial analysis functions that
utilizes the camera in a smartphone, tablet or any other camera-enabled
device. Crucially, the solution consumes a fraction of the power
typically required to run these tasks on a CPU, reducing the power
consumption by a factor of 50x.
At CEVA's booth (Hall 6, stand A50) at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,
CEVA and nViso will demonstrate this solution running on a standard
Android device and utilizing CEVA's Android Multimedia Framework (AMF)
to offload the computer vision functions to the CEVA-MM3101 platform.
Facial imaging technology is a key component in a new wave of natural
user interfaces (NUIs) that can analyze and understand facial
movements. A primary use model of the nViso technology is to interpret
people's emotions by tracking hundreds of micro-expressions and
movements to gain a more accurate and real-time understanding of the
user's emotional reactions to any media content, gaming or interactive
experience. The nViso facial imaging engine is also able to recognize
people's age, gender, eye movements and other factors that can be used
to deliver a more personalized experience to users.
The CEVA-MM3101 platform delivers the performance required for the
nViso technology to analyze and interpret various facial expressions,
with minimal power consumption. Furthermore, by utilizing CEVA's AMF,
the solution leverages the performance of the vector DSP directly from
the Android environment, seamlessly offloading the CPU and completely
abstracting any programming and system complexities for software
developers.
"By leveraging the most proven and widely adopted platform for
embedded vision applications – the CEVA-MM3101 – we can deliver our
unique facial imaging technology to a new class of mobile applications
and devices, broadening the use model and benefit of this intelligent
user interface," said Tim Llewellynn, CEO of nViso. "Given its
high-performance and low-power characteristics, the CEVA-MM3101 is ideal
for implementing computer vision applications, particularly in
always-on environments. It forms the foundation for a robust and
cost-effective 3D facial imaging solution with the flexibility to adapt
for more accuracy and more features in the future."
"nViso offers a very unique imaging application that extends the
benefit of facial recognition interfaces to new areas such as emotion
detection," said Yair Siegel, director of
product marketing for multimedia at CEVA. This partnership strengthens
the industry's largest ecosystem around an embedded vision platform,
reinforcing the CEVA-MM3101's position as the emerging standard for
camera-enabled mobile applications."
About CEVA-MM3101
The CEVA-MM3101 is CEVA's third
generation imaging and vision platform, addressing the extreme
computational needs of the most sophisticated computational photography
and computer vision applications. By offloading these
performance-intensive tasks from the CPUs and GPUs, the highly-efficient
CEVA-MM3101 dramatically reduces the power consumption of the overall
system, while providing complete flexibility. The platform includes a
vector DSP developed specifically to deal with the complexities of such
applications, an Android Multimedia Framework (AMF) that streamlines
software development and integration effort while enabling direct
development on the CPU in Android environment while accelerating tasks
to the DSP, a set of advanced software development tools and a range of
software products and libraries optimized for the DSP. For more
information, visit http://www.ceva-dsp.com/CEVA-MM3101.
About nViso
nViso is a leading provider of emo tion
recognition software that interprets human facial micro-expressions and
eye movements captured through video. Its solutions use proprietary 3D
facial imaging technology with artificial intelligence to track hundreds
of different facial points to recognize human emotions. The company
uniquely combines the latest advancements in computer science,
engineering and behavioral sciences to make automatic emotion
recognition a viable reality using any image based device. Its
proprietary analytical techniques are based on theoreti cal work by Dr. Paul Ekman,
which demonstrates that emotions can be precisely recognized by minor
changes in micro-expressions in the face. nViso is based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzer land (EPFL). More information can be found at www.nviso.ch.
About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the world's leading licensor of
silicon intellectual property (SIP) DSP cores and platform solutions for
the mobile, digital home and networking markets. CEVA's IP portfolio
includes comprehensive technologies for cellular baseband (2G / 3G /
4G), multimedia (vision, imaging and HD audio), voice processing,
Bluetooth, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). In 2013,
CEVA's IP was shipped in over 1 billion devices, powering smartphones
from many of the world's leading OEMs, including HTC, Huawei, Lenovo,
LG, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, TCL and ZTE. Today, more than 40% of
handsets shipped worldwide are powered by a CEVA DSP core. For more
information, visit www.ceva-dsp.com. Follow CEVA on twitter at www.twitter.com/cevadsp.
SOURCE CEVA, Inc.
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