VerifEye for Good

Helping people recognize the people they know.

Realeyes is offering VerifEye, our private-by-design face recognition, free to non-profit and research teams building assistive tools for people who cannot always rely on their own sight or memory.

Where it helps most

A name, at the moment it matters.

For millions of people, recognizing a familiar face is not automatic. A quiet, private prompt can give that moment back.

People who are blind or have low vision

A discreet prompt naming who is approaching, or who just walked into the room, turns an uncertain moment into a confident one.

At least 2.2 billion people live with vision impairment, including an estimated 43 million who are blind. (WHO; Lancet Global Health)

People living with dementia

When a familiar face stops feeling familiar, a gentle reminder of a name and relationship helps people stay connected to those they love.

57 million people live with dementia worldwide, with nearly 10 million new cases a year. (WHO)

People with face blindness

People with prosopagnosia can fail to recognize even close family and friends. A private name prompt removes the daily anxiety of not knowing.

Around 1 in 50 people has a form of face blindness. (Centre for Face Processing Disorders).

We are also open to other non-commercial work where recognizing a person, privately and on the device, helps someone live more independently, from research labs studying how we recognise faces to teams building assistive wearables.

Why it fits

Private by design is what makes it right for this.

Most worries about face recognition come down to one thing: what happens to the data. We built VerifEye the other way round, so privacy holds whichever way you run it. You can choose on-device processing, where nothing ever leaves the phone or glasses, or a privacy-sensitive cloud service when that suits your setup. The same principles apply to both. The technology we build to keep people safe online can also help people recognize the faces they know, and we would like it used for both.

On-device

No images uploaded

Every frame is processed on the device and never sent to a server.

No stored face templates

Nothing about a person’s face is kept after recognition.

Works offline

Runs on a phone or a pair of glasses, with or without a connection.

Server-side

No images stored

Images are processed and then discarded, never retained.

Face templates always encrypted

Any template is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Works online

Runs as a privacy-sensitive cloud service when it suits your setup.

Explicit consent is a rule across every application of VerifEye, and it holds here too. A person is only ever recognised when they have agreed to be, so an assistive tool helps the people who choose to take part and no one else.

The programme

VerifEye for Good

We give eligible organisations free, non-commercial access to VerifEye so they can build and test assistive tools without a licence fee.

What you get

What we ask

Apply

Who can apply, and how it works.

You are a good fit if

You are a registered, recognised organisation (a non-profit, charity, NGO, university, or research group) with a team of at least 10 people
Your work uses, or could use, person recognition (face recognition or related methods)
You have a team that can build with an SDK and evaluate the results
The use is non-commercial and gives a clear benefit to the people it serves
You can protect VerifEye to an agreed security standard. We will help you set it up, and ask that your team is ready to maintain it

How it works

Tell us about your project. A short note is enough to start.

We check the fit together, against the criteria on the left.

If it is a fit, we agree and sign a non-commercial licence, then set up your access and help you get started.

If your work helps people recognize the people who matter, we would like to help.

Tell us what you are building. We will take it from there.