Automatic face detection and identity masking in images, and applications thereof
First Claim
1. A method for obscuring one or more identities in an image, comprising:
- (1) detecting, in an image, a region corresponding to a face;
(2) selecting a portion of the region that includes one or more features of the face; and
(3) motion blurring the portion to obscure the one or more features of the face based at least in part upon an orientation of the face.
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Abstract
A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity.
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8 Claims
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1. A method for obscuring one or more identities in an image, comprising:
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(1) detecting, in an image, a region corresponding to a face; (2) selecting a portion of the region that includes one or more features of the face; and (3) motion blurring the portion to obscure the one or more features of the face based at least in part upon an orientation of the face. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system for obscuring an identity in an image, comprising:
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a processing pipeline server configured to obscure the identity in the image, wherein the processing pipeline server comprises; a face detector configured to detect a region in the image corresponding to a face; and an identity masker configured to obscure the identity corresponding to the detected region by motion blurring, based at least in part upon an orientation of the face, a portion of the detected region that includes one or more features of the face.
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