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AMD and Mixamo Revolutionize Character Art with World’s First Real-time Facial Capture Technology for the Unity Development Platform

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AMD APUs and GPUs deli­ver advan­ced facial cap­tu­re to two mil­li­on Unity developers



SUNNYVALE, Calif.  —8/28/2013 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced its col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Mix­amo on the launch of Face Plus, an advan­ced real-time moti­on cap­tu­re and 3D facial ani­ma­ti­on tech­no­lo­gy for the Unity game engi­ne (v4.3). Mix­amo, an AMD Ven­tures port­fo­lio com­pa­ny, pro­vi­des online 3D ani­ma­ti­on ser­vice for game deve­lo­pers. Mixamo’s Face Plus plug-in for Unity is desi­gned to enable deve­lo­pers to cap­tu­re their facial expres­si­ons through stan­dard web­cams and trans­fer them in real time onto a 3D cha­rac­ter using tech­no­lo­gy powered by AMD A‑Series APUs and GPUs1. This real-time cap­tu­re and ani­ma­ti­on capa­bi­li­ty is made pos­si­ble by off­loa­ding Mixamo’s inno­va­ti­ve and com­plex algo­rith­ms from the CPU onto AMD’s indus­try-lea­ding GPU technology.

Face Plus was deve­lo­ped for devices that sup­port Open­CL™ 1.1 or newer ver­si­ons. Face Plus enables rich, detail­ed moti­on cap­tu­re at full came­ra frame rates, inclu­ding typi­cal stan­dard web­cam con­di­ti­ons, using an AMD APU. It runs opti­mal­ly on AMD APUs and GPUs; a sys­tem powered by an AMD A10-4600M APU was capa­ble of up to 42 frames-per-second cap­tures in real-time with GPU-acce­le­ra­ti­on enab­led, a 13X per­for­mance impro­ve­ment when com­pared to using CPU pro­ces­sing alo­ne2. By lever­aging the full, mas­si­ve com­pu­te power of AMD APUs and GPUs, deve­lo­pers can ani­ma­te 3D cha­rac­ters in real time allo­wing for sim­pli­fied work­flows and fewer inter­rup­ti­ons in the crea­ti­ve pro­cess. While real-time moti­on cap­tu­re of facial expres­si­ons is curr­ent­ly available as a deve­lo­p­ment tool for con­tent crea­ti­on, it has the poten­ti­al to make its way into con­su­mer soft­ware such as video games and video con­fe­ren­cing appli­ca­ti­ons, giving con­su­mers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to ani­ma­te ava­tars in real time.

“AMD is impres­sed with the results Mix­amo has achie­ved in opti­mi­zing its tech­no­lo­gy and is exci­ted not only about the capa­bi­li­ties it brings to Unity deve­lo­pers today, but also the poten­ti­al it could bring to new con­su­mer appli­ca­ti­ons,” said Man­ju Heg­de, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, Hete­ro­ge­neous Solu­ti­ons at AMD. “Thanks to incre­di­ble Open­CL per­for­mance, broad avai­la­bi­li­ty and the capa­bi­li­ty of AMD APU and GPU solu­ti­ons across PC form fac­tors, Unity deve­lo­pers can enjoy a much more stream­li­ned deve­lo­p­ment pro­cess, allo­wing their crea­ti­vi­ty to flow with tech­no­lo­gy so powerful it rece­des into the back­ground wit­hout inter­rupt­ing the crea­ti­ve process.”

“Mix­amo is exci­ted about enab­ling Unity’s gro­wing base of over two mil­li­on deve­lo­pers to crea­te even more enga­ging sto­ries for its games and movies,” said Ste­fa­no Coraz­za, CEO and co-foun­der of Mix­amo. “With Face Plus, Mix­amo lever­a­ges main­stream AMD APU-based sys­tems with simp­le off-the-shelf web­cams to deli­ver real-time high-fide­li­ty facial cap­tu­re and ani­ma­ti­on for 3D cha­rac­ters. Our main mis­si­on is to demo­cra­ti­ze 3D cha­rac­ter art, and Face Plus takes us one step fur­ther by revo­lu­tio­ni­zing how game and film deve­lo­pers crea­te cha­rac­ter art and emo­tio­nal engagement.”

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  1. See www.mixamo.com for sys­tem requirements
  2. Tests per­for­med by AMD. Bench­mark and test files pro­vi­ded by Mix­amo. Test pro­ject mea­su­res the avera­ge speed at which the sys­tem can app­ly the Mix­amo facial ges­tu­re reco­gni­ti­on and ani­ma­ti­on algo­rith­ms using a 480p test video con­tai­ning a full ran­ge of facial emo­ti­ons and ges­tu­res that is loa­ded into sys­tem memo­ry to simu­la­te a live video feed from a stan­dard web­cam in an uncon­trol­led envi­ron­ment. An HP Pro­Book 6475b note­book PC with AMD A10-4600M APU with AMD Rade­on™ HD 7660G Gra­phics, 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM, video dri­ver 9.12.0.0, 12/19/2012, Win­dows 7 Pro­fes­sio­nal 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Ser­vice Pack 1 achie­ved 42 frames per second with GPU acce­le­ra­ti­on on, 3 frames per second with GPU acce­le­ra­ti­on off. TRN-201