Besides our participation in large scale international R&D projects, we actively and succesfully operate on the commercial market. With our proprietary technologies, professional expertise and years of experience, we are able to satisfy the business needs of a growing number of companies and organisations. For example, we are active in the field of safety and security (eg., Dutch Police), behavioral research (universities and research institutes), food industry (leading companies) and cosmetic industry (leading companies). Our current main products, that give a could idea our proprietary technologies are listed below.

Apart from being the means to identify other members of the species, the human face provides a number of signals essential for interpersonal communication in our social life. The face houses the speech production apparatus and is used to regulate the conversation by gazing or nodding, and to interpret what has been said by lip reading. It is our direct and naturally preeminent means of communicating and understanding somebody’s affective state and intentions on the basis of the shown facial expression. Personality, attractiveness, age and gender can also be seen from someone’s face. Thus the face is a multi-signal sender/receiver capable of tremendous flexibility and specificity. In turn, automating the analysis of facial signals would be highly beneficial for fields as diverse as security, behavioral science, medicine, communication, education, and human-machine interaction.

In 2007 VicarVision released the FaceReader, a revolutionary new environment for facial expression analysis. The FaceReader is able to classify the emotional expression of a person from a video or webcam stream in real time. A live demo of the FaceReader is available at this location.

By observing behavior people can recognize threats and risks, as well as potential victims or perpetrators. Using surveillance cameras to observe this behavior everywhere can significantly improve safety, but as the number of cameras is ever increasing it has become clear that it is infeasible to have humans watch each and every produced video stream. The solution is to use intelligent systems that analyze these streams automatically and only alert people when deviating behavior is detected. These systems improve efficiency as well as privacy, because video material is only seen by human eyes when something suspicious is going on.

The Watching People Security Services project aims to develop an internationally competitive software platform for the observation of human behavior from camera images for a broad range of survaillance services and applications. In order to accomplish this ambitious goal, VicarVision is working together with Noldus, TNO, EagleVision, Cameramanager.com and Borking Consultancy.

In our increasingly complex society, more and more situations arise where errors are made by workers that may have serious consequences for other people. A nurse who is preparing to administer medication, an operator of a chemical factory, the driver of a truck with hazardous materials. Each time the fate of individuals depends on the correct task performance by the people who are responsible. Errors often arise from haste, carelessness, fatigue and deviate from prescribed procedures.

In the PatRiA 2 project VicarVision is working with Noldus, the University of Twente, Fachhochschule Muenster, Rittmeyer and Koldijk Consultancy to build a system that helps in the detection and prevention of such errors. The system uses information from body posture and movements, facial expressions, and gaze direction to detect deviations from a known protocol at an early stage, as well as to detect mental states that increase the risk of future errors. By issuing warnings it is possible to prevent serious errors from occurring.

VicarVision technology allows narrowcasting solutions to deliver, manage, and change streams of content, based on the characteristics of the customer looking at a display. Individual characteristics like age, gender and current items of interest of the person looking at the display are analysed in real-time and used to adapt the display content.