# Welcome to visage|SDK

Visage|SDK is a software development kit encapsulating Visage Technologies’ powerful face detection and tracking technology.

## Supported platforms

Visage|SDK is currently distributed for three different platform based on Linux:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 64 bit (x86_64 instruction set)
- RedHat 7.0 64 bit (x86_64 instruction set)
- Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) (ARMv7-A instruction set, HardFloat (hf) linking)

## Documentation

Visage|SDK documentation consists of this user manual and additional reference manuals for specific purposes (MPEG-4 Face and body animation overview, tracker configuration etc.). These additional manuals are accessed through links in this document, or directly in the doc folder.

## Getting started

visage|SDK provides access to face tracking technology through a flexible API supporting a variety of aplications. An overview of the API is given in the API section . visage|SDK includes sample projects with full source code demonstrating how to use the API. It is recommended to start by running the samples, described in the Samples section.