Announcement
Beauty AR SDK has launched the V4.0 version. In addition to multiple functional and performance optimizations, this update features a comprehensive upgrade of the product's visual UI and enriches the effect styles. Meanwhile, it adds Gift AR and Interactive Game capabilities, bringing you an all-new effect experience. Here is the detailed content of this update:
New Interactive Effect Capabilities
1. Gift AR: Dedicated to providing customers with an efficient and smooth animation effect playback solution. It supports the playback of effect animations in multiple formats (including MP4, VAP, SVGA, PAG, WebP, Lottie, and PNG sequence images) after conversion. It specifically addresses industry challenges such as animation playback stuttering, crashes, high power consumption, excessive performance usage, and poor performance on low-end devices. It is a high-performance, highly compatible, and secure animation effect playback tool. 
2. Interactive Game: As a new game type that combines beauty effects and interactive elements, players can control on-screen elements through facial movements, gestures, and body actions. It is often used to enhance interactive fun in scenarios such as live streaming and voice chat. At the same time, monetization can be achieved by combining various methods such as virtual gifts and in-game purchases.
Technical Optimization
1. Low-end Device Optimization: The rendering process, algorithms, and stickers have been optimized to ensure more stable frame rates of the product on low-end devices. Normal/Pro modes are provided to adapt to different effects based on the device level.
2. New GAN Style Model: The cutting-edge GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) style model is introduced. Leveraging GAN’s powerful capabilities in content generation, style transfer, and feature modification, it creates more natural and creative visual effects that are difficult to achieve with traditional technologies. This enables special effects such as comic-style faces and alien faces, providing users with a novel face-changing experience.
3. New AI Beauty: AI generative adversarial network models are used for skin beautification, eliminating blemishes and acne marks while preserving skin texture, resulting in a more natural effect.
4. Green Screen Segmentation Algorithm Optimization: Optimizations have been made to issues such as incorrect masking of yellow areas, incorrect masking of green areas, and the accuracy of masking in shadow areas. It solves the problems of jagged edges and black borders in masking, improving the accuracy and speed of image processing.
5. Optimization of Body Point Accuracy: The issues of incorrect detection and missed detection of key points in complex movement scenarios (such as head turning and rotation) have been optimized, while the stability of key points has been improved.
Visual Effect Optimization
1. Brand-new Demo UI Upgrade: Adopting trendy color matching, the functional layout and interaction have been readjusted. It not only meets the aesthetic needs of young users but also delivers a clearer and smoother user experience. 
2. Beauty Effect Optimization: The position of the "Beauty Template" module has been adjusted, and template parameters have been optimized based on diverse beauty needs to achieve the best beauty effect, providing users with a stunning beauty experience.
3. New Overseas Zone and High-performance Zone: A variety of stickers and makeup styles suitable for the Middle East and Europe & America have been added. Special zones and categories have been set up according to their application scopes to facilitate users' search and use.
SDK V4.0 is forward compatible. Visit the document center to get more detailed information and the update log.