YouTube Launches Face Blurring Tool | LiveScience
YouTube has announced a new feature to protect people in videos of protests, for example, from retaliation from oppressive governments. The new "Blur All Faces" tool detects faces in a video and blurs their features. The results look a little like the blurred faces of people caught by happenstance in Google Street View images.
Families may also like to use the tool to blur out kids' faces in videos of birthday parties or soccer games, YouTube wrote in a blog post. "Our face blurring technology is a first step towards providing visual anonymity for video on YouTube," the company wrote.
Witness, a nonprofit group that supports the video recording of human rights [...]
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