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[0.38.6] - 2022-02-16#

Added

  • Offscreen app perf improvement

Changed

  • Drop any frame_data fields on effect loading

Fix

  • Fix SDK work on Android 6
  • Recording audio from effect_player to file
  • Crash when making photo or video from Demo App
  • Avoid copy frame for the case of Banuba SDK Demo
  • OEP Android FATAL EXCEPTION: CameraThread
  • Distorted image after turning on blur for row stride not equal width

[0.38.5] - 2021-12-14#

Added

  • EffectPlayer sound playback recording

Changed

  • Android: Updated lips segmentation neural network

Fix

  • Incorrect shiny lips application
  • OEP: fix YUV aliasing

[0.38.4] - 2021-11-02#

Fix

  • full_image_from_yuv_i420_img is too slow

[0.38.3] - 2021-10-07#

Added

  • face_search_mode in the EffectPlayer API
  • Windows: Sign and add description to EffectPlayer dlls
  • i420 yuv pixel format support

Changed

  • Improved face tracking performance
  • New tflite hair segmentation neural network for Android and Windows

Fix

  • Morphings behaviour at the screen edges

[0.38.2] - 2021-09-16#

Added

  • iOS 15 support

[0.38.1] - 2021-08-17#

Added

  • C API documentation + deadlock fixes (Windows)

[0.38.0] - 2021-08-16#

Added

  • Windows: MSMF camera usage
  • iOS, Android: Hand gestures tracking

Changed

  • Android: Use tflite GPU info lib to range devices classes
  • iOS: Use the same background segmentation neural networks for all devices
  • iOS: Remove unneeded UI from demo app
  • Renamed License utils symbols

Fix

  • tflite_runner assorted fixes
  • iOS: White eye lashed when making photo
  • iOS: Time range issues in video player
  • MacOS: Crash on M1
  • CubemapEverest test effect autorotation
  • WebAR: broken SIMD support
  • WebAR: Fixed creation of MediaStreamCapture
  • Android: Multitouch crash in demo app
  • Unity: min version of Android SDK
  • Unity: Android build on Windows
  • Win32: Background NN work
  • Incorrect lips shine work

[0.37.1] - 2021-07-27#

Added

  • Android x86_64 preliminary support

Changed

  • Android: Common gradle for SDK Demo projects
  • Updated background segmentation neural network models for Web and Desktop platforms

Fix

  • iOS: Missing image from camera when using ARKit on iPhone 12
  • Android: Crash on C API
  • Android: Missing photos in gallery when using Demo app on some Android devices

[0.37.0] - 2021-07-09#

Added

  • New Eyes segmentation neural network with separate detection of eye parts: pupil, sclera, iris (all platforms)
  • Token updates for Eye bags and Acne features (new token required)
  • iOS: Lips corrector
  • MacOS: reworked implementation of macOS framework
  • WebAR: API to set the number of faces to track
  • Unity: Action Units interface
  • Abitilty to show camera frames during effect initialization
  • M1 support (including simulators)
  • Accepting YUV i420
  • Lips morphing effect
  • Ability to set Neck smoothing from JS (in the effect)
  • Effect Player C API

Changed

  • Update win tflite x64, x86 from 2.3 to 2.4.1
  • Eyes corrector included in release archives by default
  • Eyes corrector enabled for win and web
  • Preload all Android NN classes instead of creating on request
  • Improved performance of the Lips Shine effect
  • Makeup API updates:
    • SetInitialRotation method is added to bg-image and bg-video classes
    • Transparent BG fix
    • Consistent methods naming
    • Fixed usage of the skin segmentation with background features
  • Android: Remove unneeded rotateBg calls and all related code
  • iOS: Include bitcode into minimal builds
  • iOS: Updated background segmentation NNs for high-end and low-end devices
  • Updated Face tracking neural network (all platforms)

Fix

  • Makeup Transfer exception
  • WebAR: Fixed inactive tab video throttling
  • Standalone: remove legacy resources copy
  • Effects with video texture crash on some devices with MediaTek + PowerVR
  • OEP long loading during app initialization

[0.36.1] - 2021-05-24#

Changed

  • WebAR: FrameData is available in WebAR SDK
  • Distance to phone improvements

Fix

  • Unity: Triggers incorrect work
  • Unity: iOS camera initialization

[0.36.0] - 2021-05-03#

Added

  • WebAR: Human-readable exception messages
  • WebAR: Updated background segmentation
  • WebAR: Optional SIMD
  • WebAR: Made WebAR SDK SSR compatible
  • WebAR: Crop, resize, horizontalFlip support
  • Desktop: Updated background segmentation
  • Android: Offscreen Effect Player (OEP) example
  • iOS: Offscreen Effect Player (OEP) example
  • Unity: Face morphing support
  • GIF textures support
  • Lips segmentation support for Web and Desktop
  • Makeup API: Exposed extra APIs
  • Hand AR API: Nails segmentation (see more)
  • Windows: SDK dlls come signed

Changed

  • Invalidate texture cache in case of file change
  • WebAR: Speed up frames obtaining
  • WebAR: Improved memory usage
  • WebAR: Throw if effect has zero length
  • Mac: build SDK as macOS framework
  • iOS: Remove ARKit dependency if ARKit face search is disabled

Fix

  • Error logs when loading empty effect
  • Android: Region cropping when apply zoom
  • WebAR: Prevent playback stop during unsuccessful effect application
  • WebAR: Inactive tab throttling
  • Makeup API: "black square" on lips with alpha channel
  • Unity: UI scaling for Beautification scene
  • Crash on effect switching
  • Standalone demo app signing

[0.35.0] - 2021-02-26#

Added

  • Support non-ASCII symbols in paths
  • New Background segmentation neural networks (Desktop)
  • New Background segmentation neural networks (Web)
  • Hair segmentation support on Windows platform
  • WebAR: Effect.preload and Player.applyEffect will now throw an exception if effect's underlying source is not a .zip archive
  • Initial support of Apple M1

Changed

  • ARKit disabled by default (iOS)
  • Strip unnecessary symbols on macOS
  • Use only minimum required subset from OpenCV on macOS
  • Use TFLite 2.4.1 without Metal delegate on macOS
  • API to set animated background in effects dynamically

Fix

  • WebAR: Firefox video processing issue
  • Android: Orientation fixes
  • Android: Sound issues and minor improvements
  • Unity: iOS plugin size

[0.34.1] - 2021-01-26#

Added

  • Face Ruler for Android platform
  • Unity: New Action Units effect with background segmentation

Changed

  • Distribute EffectPlayer for iOS as xcframework

Fix

  • Build with disabled face tracking

[0.34.0] - 2021-01-19#

Added

  • WebAR: Background support in landscape
  • BG support field in effect_info
  • Android: Java 8+ API desugaring support
  • Viewer extra options for processing

Changed

  • tflite_runner different delegates support for each feature
  • Android: Add static tensorflow lite version
  • Enable RGB camera on devices with Snapdragon 625
  • Processed images location in Banuba Viewer
  • Skin smoothing NN update (iOS)

Fix

  • WebAR: ES6 to ES5 transpilation issue
  • WebAR: loading of non existing effect
  • WebAR: several performance issues
  • Hair segmentation: TFLite input copy error
  • Prior fixes to work with frx_meta logic
  • Incorrect effects display on Android 10
  • Android: Effect size after rotation

[0.33.1] - 2020-12-10#

Added

  • Add listener as soon as test_Ruler or FaceRuler effect is activated

Changed

  • Enable face recognition neural network for mid-end Android devices

Fix

  • setEffectSize fix for Android
  • Lips shine mask incorrect work with back camera

[0.33.0] - 2020-11-30#

Added

  • Display FPS stats in desktop viewer app
  • Beauty scene for Unity plugin
  • Android: Ability to Override Detected Resolution
  • Lips recoloring with glitter effect (also supported in Banuba Viewer)
  • Distance to face (ruler feature)

Changed

  • Updated tflite for windows to 2.3
  • Both tflite runners creation on first request
  • Text texture enabled by default

Fix

  • iOS: incorrect BG work on photo in landscape
  • Unity: fix aspect on mobile devices
  • Delayed camera start
  • Repacking errors
  • Front camera flip
  • 'Face not found' message after load photo from Gallery
  • Added handling of IllegalArgumentException to prevent crashes dependent on surface configuration

[0.32.1] - 2020-11-05#

Added

  • Effect activation listener
  • Unity: Separate render target for beauty scene for the LUTs

Changed

  • Decreases CPU load on MacOS

Fix

  • Crash during effect preload
  • Mesh trembling with fast face tracking
  • Unity: Aspect of Background segmentation
  • Crash during fast effect switching

[0.32.0] - 2020-10-20#

Added

  • New background model
  • New WebAR API
  • WebAR quickstart Demo app
  • WebAR beauty demo app
  • Native OSX camera implementation
  • Web and Desktop getting started added
  • Possibility to customize capture session preset (iOS)
  • Desktop apps examples for Win and Mac
  • Demo effects without face recognition
  • Xcode 12 support

Changed

  • Eye corrector v2.0: improved stability and performance
  • Makeup API improvements
  • Use setBackgroundTexture with absolute path
  • Face tracking stability and performance optimization
  • Update offline face tracking (Android)

Fix

  • Crash with bitcode in javascript core
  • Separate mask for neck smoothing feature
  • Crash with effect reset (Android)
  • Missing logs in Viewer Standalone
  • Android video player loop
  • Memory leak on desktop when using animated textures
  • Quickstart example apps fixes
  • Unity background fix
  • ARKit face detection failure

[0.31.0] - 2020-08-27#

Added

  • SDK Features control and repacking with client token and client config
  • Minimal SDK archive
  • SDK build for MacOS
  • Makeup transfer feature
  • Photo online processing in Banuba Viewer
  • Ability to enable effects and neural networks without face recognizer
  • Eye brows segmentation NN
  • Neck smoothing neural network
  • Set camera FPS mode on Android (fixed/adaptive)
  • Represent SDK frames as OpenGL textures (WebRTC for Android)
  • New beautification API

Changed

  • Updated Background Segmentation neural network for standalone builds
  • Face recognizer work on full frame
  • Landmarks smooth filter
  • Updated eyes corrector
  • Updated face recognition neural network
  • Unity scene works in full screen mode
  • OpenCV updated to 4.3.0
  • Range android devices hardware class and max resolution for it

Fix

  • Unity plane does not update rect
  • Video player fix
  • Heart rate measurement with neural network face search
  • Segmentation neural networks work with arkit
  • Unity WebGL build
  • Fix Unity failure on Win platform
  • Crashes on effect unload
  • Correctly handle MRT rendering into background camera texture
  • Black screen on devices with ARKit
  • Background segmentation on Win x86
  • WebAR SDK blocks Backspace key
  • Banuba SDK work on devices with iOS 14

[0.30.2] - 2020-07-15#

Fix

  • Second mask freezes on the screen in scene effects

[0.30.1] - 2020-07-14#

Added

  • Eyes correction feature

Changed

  • Hide Boost symbols

Fix

  • Asynchrony of sound and video after file import
  • iOS: App freezes after background in Editing mode
  • Android beauty: Screen is flashing after launch
  • Crash on Editing Image
  • App crashed in editing mod on iPhone XS Max
  • EffectPlayer is not launched from 1st time
  • Second face is missed if to use front Camera (with ARKit)

[0.30.0] - 2020-06-11#

Added

  • WebAR support for Unity platform
  • Background segmentation for Unity platform
  • Max Faces support in client token
  • Videocall example for iOS
  • Minimal configuration of Banuba SDK
  • EffectPlayer EffectManager

Changed

  • EP version has changed to 5.6
  • Enable bitcode by default (iOS)

Fix

  • Compilation error on Ubuntu
  • Body segmentation neural network rotation
  • Viewer Standalone build
  • MSVC x64 Eigen crash
  • App won't throw exception when neural network resources are missing
  • Optimized face beautification
  • Fix audio session (iOS)
  • Bakground segmentation failures (iOS)
  • Creepy smile fixes
  • Portrait match fixes
  • Skin smoothing fixes

[0.29.1] - 2020-05-19#

Fix

  • Crash on Android with neural face recognition

[0.29.0] - 2020-04-30#

Added

Changed

  • Banuba Viewer color picker reacts to background and lips neural networks
  • Make WebAR SDK ES6 module
  • Updated llvm backend for WebAR
  • WebAR improvements

Fix

  • Lips segmentation on Android HQ photo
  • Memset buffer overflow when using Action Units
  • Jaw mesh stretching fix in face trackig algorithm

[0.28.3] - 2020-04-29#

Added

  • Enabled bitcode in iOS release

Fix

  • Portrait match technology

[0.28.2] - 2020-04-22#

Added

  • Portrait match technology

[0.28.1] - 2020-04-09#

Added

  • Update Effect Player for video calls, support callkit audio session specifics

Changed

  • Switch to fast face recognition algorithm for weak iOS devices

Fix

  • Celebrity match technology fixes
  • Crash on Banuba Viewer close

[0.28.0] - 2020-03-23#

Added

  • New face recognition and trackig algorithm for realtime (iOS)

Changed

  • Full Body segmentation can be applied again (iOS)
  • Banuba Viewer UI changes
  • Adapt Action Units to use new face recognition algorithm (iOS)
  • Adapt triggers to use Action Units (iOS)

Fix

  • Physics behavior for effects on devices with ARKit (iOS)
  • Effects render on low-level Android devices

[0.27.2] - 2020-03-12#

Fix

  • Unity openCV error
  • Small recognizer fixes for iOS platform

[0.27.1] - 2020-02-27#

Added

  • ARKit multiface support

Changed

  • Android strong devices list updated

Fix

  • Multiface effects render
  • Multiface issues
  • Crash when processing photo with 2 faces
  • Effects render with ARKit on iPhone X

[0.27.0] - 2020-02-19#

Added

  • Greatly improved face detection in offline mode (iOS, for photos)
  • Objective-C full support
  • More examples for iOS and Android
  • Improved beauty effect
  • Lips shine effect improved
  • Ability to choose camera from command line on Desktops

Changed

  • Persistent OpenGL context on Android (don't recreate it after app goes in background)
  • Safely ignore GL errors on Android
  • Beauty effect is enabled by default

Fix

  • Lips shine effect
  • Neural networks behaviour after face was lost

[0.26.0] - 2020-01-17#

Added

  • Advanced lips recoloring
  • Action Units from ARKit
  • x86 support for Windows
  • Lazy textures load

Changed

  • Improve Unity sample effects
  • Bokeh effect improved
  • Enable beauty by default in sample effects
  • Improve acne and bags removal performance
  • Hair stands blending perfomance improvement

Fix

  • Threads leak on Android
  • WebGL FPS stabilization
  • Memory issue on Android
  • Memory issue on iPhone6+
  • Crash during rendering on Adreno 610

[0.25.2] - 2020-01-09#

Fix

  • Camera open error on Android

[0.25.1] - 2019-12-31#

Fix

  • Bundle version in xCode project

[0.25.0] - 2019-12-23#

Added

  • Eye bugs removal
  • Neural network based acne removal
  • Use ARKit for face tracking when available
  • dvcam post-process effect
  • Eyes state trigger and ruler features in recognizer API
  • API to change sound volume from Java Script
  • Option to add effect from external folder in sample application (Android)
  • Improve API (SDK for browsers)

Changed

  • Don't reload effect if there was an error in Java Script

Fix

  • Decrease memory pressure while creating multiple BanubaSdkManager instances (Android)
  • Crash on effects with 3 and more faces
  • Improved camera FPS on selected low-end Android devices

[0.24.1] - 2019-11-06#

Changed

  • Update documentation with examples of new UI

Fix

  • Video recording on Android
  • Crash after exit from application
  • Memory leak on Android
  • Crashes when interacting with Android Demo app

[0.24.0] - 2019-11-01#

Added

  • Glasses detection
  • Improved stability (aka jittersing) of face tracking
  • Extended Recognizer API
  • Recognition results in Python bindings

Changed

  • Migration to AndroidX
  • New redesigned UI for Banuba SDK Demo AP (Android and iOS)

Fix

  • Video textures decoding on Android 10
  • Crash while going to background on iOS
  • Audio recording speed on Android
  • Lag during neural networks initialization
  • Various camera fixes for Android

[0.23.0] - 2019-10-02#

Added

  • Neural network based approach to detect faces. Quality, detection angles and speed of face detection was improved
  • Neural networks support for Windows and Web.
  • Unity plugin

Changed

  • Sync audio and video during recording on Android
  • Fast background on iPhone 6 and lower.
  • Correct neural networks behavior during device rotations

Fix

  • Video textures support (Android 10)
  • Crashes on Adreno chipsets
  • Stability fixes

[0.22.0] - 2019-08-28#

Added

  • Lips coloring API in Beauty effect
  • Option to switch off face recognition in config.json
  • Option to set preferred frame-rate on iOS

Changed

  • Lips segmentation neural network updated (Android)

Fix

  • Rendering on Andreno GPUs
  • Video texture decoding issue on Android
  • Android crash on app coming from background
  • Crash on iPhone 5 after video capture

[0.21.0] - 2019-08-05#

Added

  • Hair and lips recoloring in "Beauty" effect
  • EffectPlayer threading model documentation
  • SDK features documentation
  • API to check if device is compatible with Neural Networks player

Changed

  • BanubaSdkManager can be instantiated more then once (see "Migration Guides").
  • Use background mask transform for background separation layer from config.json

Fix

  • Sample app signing (iOS)
  • Rendering bugs after effect switch
  • Correct screenshot size on Android
  • "End touch" event (iOS)

[0.20.2] - 2019-07-24#

Fix

  • background separation layer from config.json (Android)

[0.20.1] - 2019-07-17#

Fix

  • Fix photo processing with MSAA enabled on Android

[0.20.0] - 2019-07-12#

Added

  • Sample ASMR effects
  • Render passes
  • Rendered frames forwarding as byte arrays (Android)
  • Ability to debug JS
  • Reset effect cache API call

Changed

  • Watermark gravity (Android)
  • Sample background separation effect blending improved
  • Background separation feature respects gyroscope data
  • Ignore gyroscope during photo and video processing
  • Beauty effect improvements

[0.19.1] - 2019-06-24#

Added

  • Color post-processing effect
  • Face rect API from face recognition result

Changed

  • Beauty effect improvements

Fix

  • Post-processing effect (when apply to framebuffer)
  • Image glitches and crash in photo editing mode (Android)

[0.19.0] - 2019-06-17#

Added

  • Bokeh effect example
  • Icons cons for sample effects
  • New documentation, programming guides added
  • Rendering view transformation API
  • Post-process library
  • Beauty app example

Changed

  • Removed Beauty effect API parameters:

    • eyes_sharping_str
    • blur_bg_enable
    • blur_lod
    • remove_bag_intensity
    • eyes_luts

  • Renamed Beauty effect api parameters:

    • makeup_tex -> eyebrows_tex
    • makeup_alpha -> eyebrows_alpha
    • eyebrows_tex -> lashes_tex
    • eyebrows_alpha -> lashes_alpha

  • Gravity in effect now respects device orientation

  • Remove life-cycle methods from BanubaSDKManader on Android

  • External texture disabled by default (Android)

  • Action Units sample effect updated

  • Use only one camera session for all tasks (Android)

  • Improved photo processing speed

  • Sound Changer is supplied as separate plugin

  • Swift 5 support

    Fix

  • Gracefully handle exceptions on OS X

  • Missing and frozen video textures on iOS and Android

  • Open GL crashes on Android

  • Neural networks overload on Android

  • Rendering bugs for Web version

  • Stretched camera preview (iOS)

[0.18.1] - 2019-05-29#

Added

  • SVG watermark support (Android)
  • Proguard rules for banuba_sdk module (Android)

Changed

  • banuba_sdk now supplied in compiled form
  • BNBFullImageData can be created from RGB CVPixelBuffer with paddings
  • Suspend frame processing while taking low res photo (Android)
  • Beauty effect: return default parameters after animation
  • Restart camera preview session on HR photo (Android)

Fix

  • Video texture freeze (Android)
  • Crash during render size change

[0.18.0] - 2019-05-24#

Added

  • Processing Bitmap and apply current selected effect on it (Android)
  • Image editing mode in platform modules (Android)
  • Acne removing technology in photo processing
  • Watermarks on video (Android)
  • Considering device orientation in photo taking
  • Ability to setup several listener in EffectPlayer
  • Support of Bitmap in FullImageData constructor (Android)
  • Universal framework for device and simulator (iOS)

Changed

  • Added assertions in EffetPlayer life cycle (for video processing)
  • Hair segmentation neural network is updated

Fix

  • Losing face orientation after android activity restart is fixed
  • Physics on multiface effects is working correctly
  • App has crashed on 32 bit Androids with enabled neural networks
  • ActionUnits improvements

[0.17.1] - 2019-04-24#

Fix

  • Exposure settings (iOS)
  • Continuous photo rendering with updated parameters

[0.17.0] - 2019-04-18#

Added

  • Continuous photo rendering with updated parameters
  • Conversions-free RGB input support
  • Image file processing example (iOS)
  • Support for landscape frame input
  • API to check Android hardware performance

Changed

  • Documentation improved
  • Swift 4.2 support in example app
  • Updated lips segmentation neural network
  • Improved rendering quality on high-end Android devices

Fix

  • Removed duplicate functionality in Android samples
  • Correct video orientation (iOS)

[0.16.0] - 2019-04-03#

Added

  • Neural networks for Android: lips, skin, hair, eyes iris segmentation; background separation.
  • Neural networks rendering for Android.
  • Full body segmentation neural network for iOS.
  • Release binaries for Windows.
  • New post process effects: acid whip, cathode, rave.
  • x86_64 build variant for iOS simulators.
  • Face detection in any orientation (Android).

Changed

  • Camera FPS increased on Huawei devices.
  • Video now paused when app is in background.
  • Process screenshot or HQ camera option for Android.
  • Performance on low-end Android devices.

Fixed

  • Video textures playback.
  • Audio resume after background (Android).
  • Launch time on first run (Android).

[0.15.0] - 2019-03-14#

Added

  • Action Units and Blend Shapes
  • Take high resolution photo with effect, camera switch, video recording (Android)
  • Post processing stage with simple effects
  • New neural network for eyes segmentation (iOS)
  • Multi-touch

Changed

  • Method to process photo from file readded to API
  • Hide eyes if there is no face in test_Eyes effect
  • Binary size reduced for iOS

Fixed

  • Photo in Landscape mode on iOS
  • Animation position on photos
  • Acne removal performance on photos
  • Sounds after background (Android)

[0.14.3] - 2019-02-21#

Fixed

  • Android crash with external texture
  • Rendering area size for iOS
  • Java documentation

[0.14.2] - 2019-02-09#

Fixed

  • Version number in iOS framework

[0.14.1] - 2019-02-01#

Added

  • iPad support for Demo app
  • Analytics serialization
  • New lifecycle: effect is paused before background
  • Videoprocessing (desktop only)

Changed

  • Photo processing optimization
  • Android Demo Activity GC optimization

[0.14.0] - 2019-01-15#

Added

  • Haptic feedback.

Changed

  • Client API automatically generated both for Java and Obj-C.
  • Documantation reflecting Java and Obj-C classes.

Fixed

  • Draw state after VAO modification made by external code (Android).
  • Sound session restore on iOS.
  • FPS degradation on video textures (Android).

[0.13.3] - 2019-01-15#

Fixed

  • Audio session configuration (iOS)

[0.13.2] - 2019-01-14#

Changed

  • Restore old RFX classifier

[0.13.1] - 2019-01-11#

Added

  • Watermarks on video (iOS only)

Changed

  • Beauty soft light texture without eye shadows

Fixed

  • Stretched picture during video preview on iOS
  • Fix JS call with arguments
  • Crashfixes

[0.13.0] - 2018-12-27#

Added

  • Ability to modify user's voice (voice changer); iOS only
  • Smaller face recognition classifier
  • Eyes segmentation textures
  • Neural network for face detection (optional, disabled by default)
  • Acne removal
  • Lips segmentation

Changed

  • Improved hair segmentation on Android
  • BanubaSdkManager improvements on Android

Fixed

  • FPS calculation,
  • Overdraw on Android
  • Black screen on Mali devices

[0.12.6] - 2018-12-20#

Fixed

  • Reverted unnecessary cropping of video pixel buffer

[0.12.5] - 2018-12-19#

Fixed

  • Fix video recording for custom size of input frame

[0.12.4] - 2018-12-18#

Added

  • Functions for retriving effect and screen sizes from js

Fixed

  • Rendering artifacts near eyelid in beauty effect (z-fighting)
  • Camera initial mode fix, custom aspect ratio support
  • Adjust configuring exposure settings method

[0.12.3] - 2018-12-14#

Fixed

  • Fix beautification issues on high resolution
  • Fix coordinates conversion in touch event

[0.12.2] - 2018-12-12#

Fixed

  • Video recording (copy + flip on BanubaSDK side), memory management improvements

[0.12.1] - 2018-12-11#

Changed

  • Turn off frame_brightness feature by default.
  • Enable gyroscope on demand.
  • Process image improved Fixed
  • Exposure point settings (iOS) Added
  • Effect events for Android
  • Touch events for android

[0.12.0] - 2018-12-04#

Changed

  • EffectPlayer life cycle methods updated
  • Strict checks of surface lifecycle
  • Face detection algorithm reverted to more stable implementation
  • Resource finding path changed to subfolder (bnb)
  • Naming banuba.core -> banuba.sdk (iOS)
  • VideoRecording via TextureCache (iOS)

Added

  • Search locations in ResourceManager error message
  • Ability to setup log level and subscribe to SDK's log callback from client code
  • Methods for getting CPU Info on Android
  • Experimental neural network support on Android (background separation, hair segmentation) (special build is required)
  • Bin record interface in BanubaCore
  • Improved error reporting while effect loading
  • Beautification effect added to resources (special build is required)
  • Process single image method with custom input and output formats (ability to take high-quality photos)
  • Experimental skin segmentation NN added on iOS
  • Experimental eyes segmentation NN added on iOS
  • Ability to flip rendered image along the Y axis
  • Touch events on iOS

Fixed

  • Fix pushFrameYVU420 method
  • Fix crash in effect_context::update (race condition)
  • Return draw error when effect loading failed
  • Bokeh effect works on Android,
  • Fix slow wireframe in DebugRenderer
  • Fix iOS crash in shader compilation
  • Fix unpack alignment for textures with width * components not multiple of 4
  • Fix process image when external camera texture
  • Fix bg copy MRT on ANGLE WebGL (Web)
  • Fix depth test&write state after morph with hair compacting
  • Fix min and max possible coordinates (in face recognition)
  • Fix exposure point

[0.11.2] - 2018-11-20#

Fixed

  • Drawing artifacts on some effects

[0.11.1] - 2018-11-15#

Changed

  • Updated face recognition algorithm.

Added

  • Ability to link with simulator on iOS.

Fixed

  • Release number for frameworks fixed
  • Fix runtime crash with aligned new on iOS 10
  • Correctly stop Effect Player in onDestroy and initialization in onCreate

[0.11.0] - 2018-11-08#

Added

  • Sound volume control in effect.
  • Callback to receive events from effects (mainly for analytics).
  • Support for Bokeh effect.

Changed

  • New face model classifier.
  • Rendering performance optimization.

Fixed

  • Various crashes

[0.10.2] - 2018-10-08#

Fixed

  • Issues with effects display (black background instead of camera texture).
  • Dynamic shadow lag by one frame.

[0.10.1] - 2018-10-05#

Fixed

  • Face recognition black mask in effects has fixed on some Android devices.

[0.10.0] - 2018-10-05#

Added

  • Support of new pixel formats in effect_player::process_frame: RGBA, BGRA, ARGB, RGB, BGR. Not supported in BanubaCore yet.
  • Binding EffectPlayer and Recognizer for Python.

Fixed

  • Launch on iOS 10.
  • Issue with audio engine lifecycle.
  • Render: issue with effect's shadows has been fixed.
  • Render: issue with depth buffer on Xiaomi Redmi 4a has been fixed.

Changed

  • Render optimization:
    • Excess loading of 1x1 textures for background and hair masks was removed when these features are not used.
    • Color correction for easysnap (lut-textures background loading — speeds up beauty effect loading and small speed up of lut layer rendering).
    • Broken effects fixes.

[0.9.1] - 2018-10-02#

Fixed

  • Dynamic shadows drawing issue has been fixed (for Banuba 3.0).

Changed

  • EffectPlayer for Backend major version was raised to 5.0.
  • Render performance optimization.
  • Beauty Effect for both platforms should be taken from 2b959fa12a966956c6f158ded762b634eac988de or later (update Android effect).

[0.9.0] - 2018-09-28#

Fixed

  • A few crashes in face recognition engine were fixed.
  • Issue with mask does not respect head volume after switching the effects has been fixed.

Changed

  • Render performance optimization.

[0.8.6] - 2018-09-24#

Added

  • Android version assembled with NDK 18.

Changed

  • Face recognition improved performance, improved anti-tremble, smoothing and so on.

[0.8.5] - 2018-09-21#

Fixed

  • Fixed initialization crash.

[0.8.4] - 2018-09-21#

Added

  • Debug render antialiasing.

Changed

  • Beautification effect performance has increased.
  • Face recognition performance has increased.

[0.8.3] - 2018-09-21#

Changed

  • Binary file size was reduced for iOS (17.7 MB against 19.7 MB).

[0.8.2] - 2018-09-19#

Fixed

  • Issues with single frame processing were fixed.

Changed

  • Performance has improved.

[0.8.1] - 2018-09-14#

Added

  • Minor render optimizations (excess glGetInteger were removed).

Changed

  • Low-light feature has been reverted because it has issues.

[0.8.0] - 2018-09-12#

Added

  • New audio player.
  • Callback on low light detection.

Changed

  • Improvements in face recognition lib (performance in multiface mode has been increased, recognition angles has been increased, predictability of recognition work time has been improved — detection distribution by frames with self scheduler.
  • Improvements in render performance (number of passed parameters into shader interpolation were decreased — pixel shaders patch in glfx).
  • More accurate draw of the camera image (NEAREST filtration).

[0.7.2] - 2018-09-11#

Fixed

  • Issues with effect_player_wrap-ios.framework were fixed.

[0.7.1] - 2018-09-07#

Fixed

  • Fixed issue with crash in v0.7.0 release.

[0.7.0] - 2018-09-05#

Added

  • Photo mode frame processing (high resolution frame processing).
  • Consistency mode for camera external texture (Android).
  • Ability to get the version of EffectPlayer from backend.
  • Ability to get the number of rendered frame and pass number in push_frame.
  • Face recognition finds face at a large angle (up to 30 degrees).
  • Ability to set the texture parameters through suffixes in their names.
  • Framework version is transferred to Manifest after building, AAR assembling completely automated (Andorid).

Fixed

  • Fixed issue with context lose on Android.
  • Effects with occlusion are fixed.
  • Small bug fixes.

Changed

  • Strong reference on Delegate has been removed in iOS.

[0.6.2] - 2018-08-31#

Fixed

  • Fixed deadlock when drawing regular camera texture.

[0.6.1] - 2018-08-29#

Added

  • Consistent external texture for Android.
  • Zeroing face counter on onStop event.

[0.6.0] - 2018-08-21#

Fixed

  • Fixed and significantly improved inconsistency modes (was given earlier in unversioned release).
  • Images strides from the camera were fixed for Android.
  • Fixed issue with long camera initialization.

Changed

  • Default iOS mode was changed to inconsistency-without-face (was given earlier in unversioned release).
  • Updates in gender recognition (works fast and once in 3 seconds at the moment).

[0.5.2] - 2018-07-31#

Added

  • Possibility to enable inconsistency mode on iOS, it is possible to skip frame processing to render the image.
  • Possibility to receive device orientation in script (it is possible to disable background separation according to orientation).
  • Possibility to create a few recognizer instances (basically for DiffCat, not yet presented in EP API).
  • Possibility to transmit both camera matrix into the script (needed for morphing creation in accordance to distance from camera).
  • Recognizer coverage with performance tests has started.

Fixed

  • Potential crash with keeping color_plane was fixed.
  • Fixed wrong_fb_after_morph.

[0.5.1] - 2018-07-26#

Fixed

  • Beauty settings doesn’t apply issue has been fixed.

Changed

  • Unnecessary Android resources were removed.

[0.5.0] - 2018-07-24#

Added

  • Consistency/inconsistency modes switching (Android).
  • Blur background.
  • Performance collection using systrace (Android).
  • 32-bit support (but slow at the moment).
  • Possibility to transfer frame number which has come from camera.
  • Possibility to disabled background separation and other recognizer features from scripts.
  • Switching between external texture and drawing from ImageReader (Android).

Fixed

  • Huawei issues (Android).
  • Colors conversion bug fix (color correction).

Changed

  • Optimized morphing.
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