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Banuba Boosts Face AR SDK with Precision Backgrounds and Facial Contour Mapping

Remix Reality Newsroom

22 Dec 2025 — 1 min read

Source: Banuba

Banuba has enhanced its Face AR SDK with cleaner virtual backgrounds and a new face shape detection module.
The update aims to improve realism and personalization in AR experiences across communication, social, and commerce platforms.

Beauty AI & AR company, Banuba, has announced a major upgrade to its Face AR SDK. The update significantly improves its virtual background segmentation and adds a new face shape detection feature. The new capabilities are designed to improve how users appear and interact in AR for video communication, social media, and e-commerce apps.

“Our goal is to make AR interactions flawlessly intuitive and personally engaging,” said Anton Liskevich, a CPO/Co-Founder at Banuba, in a press release. “By combining our refined virtual background, which handles the technical challenge of a clean cutout, with intelligent face shape analysis for hyper-personalization, we are empowering developers to build applications that users genuinely love to use.”

The improved virtual background feature produces cleaner edges and removes common issues like jitter and pixelation. It also performs better in difficult cases, such as when the background is similar in color to the user’s clothing. It helps users appear more naturally integrated into virtual environments. The new face shape detection module tracks key facial contours and provides detailed data points to developers as well as Banuba’s AI recommendation engine. This allows the system to suggest more accurate AR effects, filters, and accessories based on each user’s features.

Banuba continues to expand its AR toolkit for developers. The company, which has over nine years of experience in AI and AR, enables developers with tools to add face tracking, virtual try-on, and virtual background technologies to their apps for a variety of use cases.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

If your segmentation’s messy or your face data’s off, the whole AR experience falls apart. Clean edges and accurate detection aren’t extras—they’re the baseline for anything immersive.

Source: Business Wire / Banuba

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