Abstract: A system and method enabling an Augmented Reality (AR) capable system to manage the displaying of AR overlays in ways that prevent possible AR user distractions, respect AR user's privacies and prevent interference or conflict with other AR overlays that may appear in an AR user's field of view.

Abstract: Computerized methods for creating tracks of locations across frames of a video corresponding to a facial feature of a human. A set of feature location hypotheses is generated, as applied to images derived from the sequence of frames representing images of the human. Each hypothesis is refined, and a first set of confidence measures is associated with each hypothesis. A second set of confidence measures is associated with interframe transition, and a cost function that is a combination of hypotheses and transition confidence measures is minimized. A set of tracks is generated, characterizing each of a plurality of facial features within each frame of the sequence of frames. Performance analysis data may further be derived in a performance driven animation production pipeline, based on the generated tracks.

Abstract: Computer implemented methods for generating a non-transient record of feature locations and/or facial expression parameters characterizing a person's face. A video sequence of a specified individual person is received and a feature locator update model is applied to the video sequence. The feature locator update model is derived by defining a set of training images, generating a set of facial feature displacements for each training image with associated image sample vectors, and training a regularized linear regression which maps from image sample vectors to displacement vectors, wherein the regularization includes a spatial smoothness term within the shape-free sample space. A feature location and/or a facial expression parameter is then extracted, based on the feature update model, characterizing the location, and/or the expression, of the feature of the face of the specified individual person.

Abstract: A system and method of interaction with one or more applications running on a mobile device. The system maps the visual output of one or more applications running on the mobile device onto one or more virtual surfaces located within a user defined coordinate system, the mobile device being within this coordinate system, the coordinate system being attach to an arbitrary scene. The system estimates the pose of the mobile device within the coordinate system and according to this pose displays an interactive view of the virtual surfaces. The displayed view enables interaction with the one or more applications running on the mobile device.