# Paravision

> Paravision is a San Francisco-based Identity AI company building face recognition, liveness, deepfake detection, and age estimation tools used by governments, airports, banks, and stadiums worldwide. Rebranded from Ever AI in 2019 after topping NIST's facial recognition leaderboard, it sells ethically trained biometric SDKs to enterprises and Five Eyes partners.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Doug Aley (CEO (joined as Ever, led Paravision rebrand 2019)), Andrew Dudum (Co-founder (Everalbum era)), Jon Mumm (Co-founder (Everalbum era))
- **Team size:** ~61 employees
- **Products:** Face Recognition, Liveness Detection, Deepfake Detection, Age Estimation, Contactless Corridor
- **Notable:** Ranked #1 on the NIST FRVT 1:1 leaderboard in 2019, the week of the rebrand from Ever AI., Named a Luminary in the 2025 Deepfake & Synthetic Identity Prism report., Secured production-grade deepfake detection contract with a Five Eyes government partner (Oct 2024).

## Products & services

- **Face Recognition** — Top-ranked NIST FRVT 1:1 and 1:N face recognition SDKs for cloud, server, and edge deployment.
- **Liveness Detection** — Passive and active anti-spoofing checks used in remote identity verification flows.
- **Deepfake Detection** — Detects identity/expression swaps and fully synthetic AI-generated faces - 2.0 cut error rates by up to 97% over v1.
- **Age Estimation** — AI-based age inference for compliance with age-gated commerce and content.
- **Contactless Corridor** — Walk-through biometric matching for airports, venues, and high-throughput physical access.

## Achievements

- Ranked #1 on the NIST FRVT 1:1 leaderboard in 2019, the week of the rebrand from Ever AI.
- Named a Luminary in the 2025 Deepfake & Synthetic Identity Prism report.
- Secured production-grade deepfake detection contract with a Five Eyes government partner (Oct 2024).

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Launched Deepfake Detection 2.0 with up to 97% improvement in error rates and detection of diffusion/GAN-generated synthetic faces.
- **2024-10** — Announced production deepfake detection program with a Five Eyes government partner.
- **2024-02** — Introduced Paravision Deepfake Detection 1.0 after two years of R&D on a 1M+ image consented dataset.

## Links

- Website: https://paravision.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paravision-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/paravisionai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@paravisionai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/everalbum

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Last updated: 2026-05-19