Hi, just following up this - I know it’s been a while but I’ve experimented a bit with the understand.ai anonymizer myself.
Again, pretty good results for faces that are clearly visible. Don’t have too many panos with license plates so untested as yet.
To deal with the blurring part being slow, I just used the detection part and then used Pillow’s inbuilt blur function. Performance was fine.
However I have a question on our legal obligations - this is for a separate project - not Mapillary - so apologies if it’s inappropriate (my server is in Germany, I am in UK, presumably German law applies as does the GDPR): to what extent do we need to blur faces and license plates?
With this tool I can blur faces that are clearly visible. Faces further away from the camera are not reliably detected and blurred - but these faces are not clearly visible anyway. Do we thus have to blur ALL people showing on the panorama irrespective of whether their face is clearly visible, or just faces that are clearly visible? From a privacy POV I’d have thought just clearly visible faces, but IANAL.
Thanks.