Luxand, Inc. is proud to announce several important changes to Luxand FaceSDK. We are making changes to our licensing policies, and introducing several new technologies to the SDK.

Luxand FaceSDK is a high-performance library for face and facial feature detection. The new edition can detect multiple faces on a single photo, and reduces its runtime size to a mere 1.5 MB. The newest release of the SDK is optimized to perform even faster than before. The new release is available for immediate download at:

http://www.luxand.com/download/Luxand_FaceSDK_Setup.exe [2 mb]

The important changes to our licensing policy are outlined below.

 * A new Non-Commercial License is now available to freeware developers. This license is available at no charge.

 * A new Basic License is available to software developers who only require face detection, and don’t need detection of facial features. This license is available for $320. We introduced this type of licenses to help developers of graphic and photo editing applications benefit from face recognition technologies without having to pay for unwanted extras. Graphic editors can include zooming on the faces, or provide various photographic adjustments such as correcting color and exposure based on the color and brightness of the faces in the photo. It is also possible to incorporate automatic portrait cropping and automatic red-eye reduction into photo editors, providing even more useful features to the end users.

You are welcome to check all available licensing options at:

http://www.luxand.com/facesdk/order/