Luxand

Luxand, Inc. is a privately held developer of face recognition and facial analysis technology, based in Alexandria, Virginia and formed in 2005. Its tools let software developers add face detection, identification and liveness checks to desktop, mobile, web and edge applications. It has recently added an SDK for running language models fully offline inside apps.

What Luxand offers

• FaceSDK — spots and identifies faces in still images and video, maps 70 feature points and estimates expression, gender and age.
• Liveness detection — a passive check against spoofing, which the company says carries iBeta Level 1 and 2 certification.
• Wide platform support — Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android and WebAssembly, with wrappers for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Swift and more.
• LLM SDK — local language models for chat, vision and tool calling, offline on desktop and mobile.
• Other SDKs and web APIs — FaceCrop, Mirror Reality augmented reality filters, and web effects such as face ageing.

Who it works with

Its tools, the company says, are used by police forces, banks, public agencies, research groups and firms in security and biometrics. Customers it names include Boeing, Ford, Fujitsu, LG, Philips, Samsung, Unilever and the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs.

Key facts

• Based in: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
• Founded: 2005
• Latest release: FaceSDK 8.3