Face recognition for portables

DSP experts CEVA have teamed up with packaging IP company Tessera to put face recognition software on mobile platforms.
Tessera's Fotonation embedded image enhancement software will run on CEVA’s portable multimedia platform, the CEVA-MM2000, with a live demonstration today in Yokohama, Japan.
CEVA and Tessera are demonstrating high-performance face detection and face tracking capabilities running completely in software on CEVA’s fully programmable multimedia platform. Face detection and tracking are the latest additions to the broad range of video, audio and image enhancement software available for the MM2000 platform and further illustrates the extensive capabilities enabled for licensees of CEVA’s fully programmable multimedia solution.

"Tessera’s FotoNation technology brings embedded image enhancement capabilities to the MM2000 platform and provides a valuable addition to the software offerings available for our MM2000 platform," said Eyal Ben-Avraham, vice president Partners & Ecosystem of CEVA. "The ease-of-programmability of our MM2000 platform enables our customers to truly differentiate their CEVA-based multimedia SoCs through software. Offerings such as the FotoNation technology from Tessera and other quality improvement pre/post-processing functions are vital especially for mobile devices."