Investors in this round of financing include the Samsung Catalyst Fund, United Beauty Holdings, and an undisclosed investor.
It is understood that the Israeli technology company Mantis Vision was founded in 2005. Mantis Vision is mainly for consumers, application developers, game designers and industry professionals to bring easy 3D image and video capture to help them to characters, objects And place real-time conversion to high resolution 3D content.
The company has previously received investment from companies such as Qualcomm, Sony, and Samsung. In March 2018, the company officially entered China. According to a previous announcement by Lianmei Holdings, Lianmei Holdings and Mantis Vision jointly invested to form a joint venture. Huishi Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to applying and serving the world's top 3D and computer vision innovation technologies to the Chinese market.
The joint venture was officially listed recently, with 30 employees and offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. In addition to the joint venture of the company, Lianmei Holdings is the largest shareholder of Israel Mantis Vision. .
Today, 2D face recognition has been widely used in various scenes, but subject to various factors such as ambient light, response speed, anti-fraud, etc., face recognition is still difficult to achieve payment level security. Since last year's Apple iPhone Since 3D technology for facial recognition, other smartphone manufacturers are also hoping to follow suit.
As early as 2017, Mantis Vision entered into a strategic partnership with Shenzhen Oufeiguang Technology Co., Ltd., and both parties used their respective advantageous resources to carry out extensive cooperation and layout in 3D imaging and related technologies and applications.
The Xiaomi 8 released on May 31 this year is based on Mantis Vision 3D structured light technology, which is the first attempt of this technology on Android phones.
In addition, the Korean website The Bell reported in June that Samsung has established a partnership with Mantis Vision, and their flagship smartphone Galaxy S10 will use the latter's 3D facial recognition technology.
It is understood that Mantis Vision's original data acquisition relies on 'infrared dot matrix projector', 'infrared camera' and 'RGB camera'. Its working principle is: Infrared dot matrix projector emits coded light pattern to form reflection on the surface of the object. Received by an infrared camera; background algorithms and programs decode data in real time, generate point clouds and depth maps; RGB cameras capture color images; after rapid meshing and texture mapping, lifelike 3D models are presented.
Unlike the DOE (diffractive optics) projection of the iPhone X, Mantis Vision uses Mask-based coded structured light. Its innovative patented coding technology captures minimal detail with dense point clouds and precise depth information. Really restores the original appearance of the scan target, and effectively reduces the amount of processing operations. In addition, with the high frame rate of the camera, real-time dynamic capture of 3D content can also be achieved.
Although on the Xiaomi 8, this technology is only used for 3D face recognition and payment applications. But in the future, this technology carries the real-world character, digitizing the real world, thus producing some applications that are completely different from traditional two-dimensional imaging. Scenes.
For example, the current mainstream naked-eye 3D display technology can track the position of your eyeball. Users are watching webpages, advertisements, and at which point on the page, they can make calculations. The frequency of blinking eyes, the magnification of pupils Zooming out can reflect more than 80 different emotions. According to this information, the front camera of the mobile phone may become the person who knows you the most.
According to the marketing department of Mantis Vision China, Mantis Vision's 3D modules have been locally mass-produced in China, with factory support in Nanchang and Ningbo, and will provide more mobile and smart device manufacturers in the Chinese market in the future. For professional, fast localized production and service support, to bring more high-definition, better quality 3D experience to Chinese consumers.