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Overview#

FaceEngine SDK is the core library. It is described in the FaceEngine_Handbook.pdf.

The TrackEngine tool is used for receiving images from video.

See Licensing.pdf for information about features licensing and license activation.

See FeatureMapMobile.htm for additional information about available functionality and features.

The ConfigurationGuide.pdf includes information about SDK configurations.

FaceEngine#

FaceEngineSDK is the core library. It allows to implement the following functionality:

  • Faces detection;
  • Faces normalization (warping);
  • Landmarks location on faces;
  • Face descriptor extraction and matching;
  • Estimators :
    • Eyes estimator (opened/closed eyes);
    • BestShotQuality Estimator.

FaceEngineSDK library is available in two versions: Frontend Edition (FE) and Complete Edition (CE):

  • Complete Edition supports all functionality;
  • Frontend Edition is a light version with excluded descriptor functionality (does not support descriptor extraction and matching).

The Frontend edition is intended for lightweight software that does not need to implement searching functions. For example, these could be:

  • Face detection applications that take a picture of the user and send it to a server for processing, such as verification;

  • Face alignment applications, that only need the knowledge about head pose and facial shape;

  • Simple ad-hoc analytics solutions like age & gender recognition for context-aware advertising;

  • And so on.

The complete edition contains all the features of the frontend edition but adds face verification and identification features. That said, the complete edition is a more of a backend or server-oriented software. Still, it can run not only on powerful servers, but on ordinary PCs and even mobile devices as well.