Ecway Technologies is a company that provides IEEE projects and software developments with offices in multiple cities across India. They specialize in local directional number pattern analysis for face and expression recognition. This paper proposes a novel local feature descriptor called local directional number pattern (LDN) that encodes directional information of textures in a compact way, producing a more discriminative code than current methods. LDN extracts directional information from micro-patterns using a compass mask and encodes this using prominent direction indices and signs. The face is divided into regions and LDN features are extracted and concatenated into a feature vector to describe the face. Experiments show the descriptor performs well under variations in illumination, noise, expression, and time lapse. The