CEVA, Inc., HARMAN, KeyLemon, nViso, SoftKinetic, Tobii Technology and the University of Siena, today announced that their joint project focused on multi-modal human-machine technologies, has received funding from Horizon 2020 (H2020), the €80 billion European Union Research and Innovation programme.
The project known as FANCI (Face and body Analysis Natural Computer Interaction) is centered around the integration of multi-modal human-machine technologies on a single platform, realizing significant cost and power savings for the implementation of these functions in embedded products. FANCI will research, innovate, architect, design, develop and validate innovative multi-modal face and body analytics and natural computer interfaces (NCI), develop a reference platform fitting a variety of applications, and provide validation through user experience evaluation and benchmarking. Initially the project will focus on the automotive industry to validate this technology.
Each of the bodies involved bring industry-leading expertise in their chosen fields: CEVA (Israel) as the provider of the CEVA-MM3101 imaging and vision platform and computer vision libraries for the human-machine technologies, HARMAN (Germany) as the automotive industry expert, KeyLemon (Switzerland) as the provider of face authentication software, nViso (Switzerland) as the provider of emotion detection software, SoftKinetic (Belgium) as the provider of 3D vision technologies and gesture software, Tobii Technology (Sweden) as the provider of eye tracking technology, and the University of Siena (Italy) as the developer of the application layer and the user API.
FANCI will integrate all of these capabilities in a market-ready reference architecture, demonstrated by building a creative automotive application-suite demonstrator, including an application programming interface (API) for software application developers.
About Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing theInnovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness. By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 is helping to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.
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