About Us | Press

Face AR technology

Face AR turns your camera into lifestyle companion and makes the impersonal personal – through the human face.

Animate day-to-day communication with filters, avatars and emojis
Empower AR-enabled mobile apps, games and social networking
Edit, smarten up and express users’ identity in selfies and stories
Let consumers virtually try on products and create targeted advertising
Help to democratise content creation

Our team

Yury Hushchyn

Head of R&D and Co-founder
Vadim Makarevich

Art Director
Dmitry Ogievich

CEO and Co-founder
Vadim Nekhai

Managing Director and Co-founder
Anton Liskevich

Product Director
Alexei Sokolskii

CTO and Co-founder

What’s the vision for Banuba?

We believe seamlessness and simplicity is the future of communication and want to produce software that is intuitive, compelling and simple to use. Banuba’s video technology bridges the gap between ordinary people and professional Instagram and YouTube content creators.

Augmented reality allows the creation of a very personalised experience. It’s fun and engaging. It's a great way to attract the younger audience’s attention and immerse them into your story.

– Vadim Nekhai, Managing Director at Banuba

We’re in the media

Techcrunch
Telegraph
Techradar
Technative
Techworld
Dating News

Banuba is shaking up the mobile space by offering augmented reality video tools that give users more interactive and personal ways to express themselves.
Los Angeles Times

...Banuba, a developer of AI-powered software that can identify a potential customer’s age, sex, skin color and hair color to create instant personalized ads. With other Banuba apps, users can goof around with video selfie masks that make them look like Charlie Chaplin or as if spiders are crawling out of their mouths.
Wired

With Banuba’s apps, you can operate your phone or computer just by moving your eyes, and fool around with video selfie filters that allow you to don Uncle Sam or Statue of Liberty masks or make spiders crawl out of your mouth – in an AR experience that is way more sophisticated than Snapchat’s or Facebook’s selfie filters.
Nanalyze

Banuba’s FaceAR technology models faces directly in 3D instead of establishing a 2D mapping of a face and building a 3D model from that, making the algorithm more accurate than standard facial recognition methods.
Entrepreneur

Augmented reality merges the real surroundings with virtual elements, bringing the real world and real humans back to the communication. Think of video calls: for example, a face beautification technology developed at Banuba allows to read, analyze and visually smooth user's anthropometric data and mimics.
VentureBeat

Banuba, a startup born in Belarus but operating worldwide from its Hong Kong and Cyprus offices, recently developed an AR mobile software development kit for app developers and publishers worldwide. To a large extent, this technology relies on AI algorithms to recognize people’s faces and bodies; understand their emotions, facial expressions, …
MarketWatch

Banuba's core technologies are based on modern machine learning algorithms including neural networks that can detect and identify objects, facial expressions, and gestures in real time, and then modify and augment those features using filters and video effects.