so, Hello! If I have a Photo memorial, like the Colosseum with me, and I blur myself, and upload the photo, is that “legal”? What color shall I blur myself? For now, I used the colors to blur myself ( Mapillary ) Do I need to blur myself with a mapillary logo? Is that ok? Is it “illegal” (from & for Mapillary)
If yes, then I can upload other images, and MUUUCH more Images.
If no, then… r.i.p…
IMO
Would it not depend who is likely to take legal action against you? The Mapillary server though will attempt to blur to remove ID information on upload, so you likely don’t need to do anything. There are some caveats on this though. I seem to remember the FAQ before blurring was fully in place that one shouldn’t upload a large human face proportioned image just in case there were too many pixels to do a good obscuring job on. Same kind of logic goes with a car license/registration numbers. ie keep it in the context of a scene, not a car front/back almost filling the frame.
However yes of course you can blur yourself out if you want to. Pixelising or a neutral mid range patterned grey seems to be about right. Remember that the images are used for machine recognition of objects, so its probably best to fill with small “noisy” chunks of various colours rather than just one. The recognition engine might be coded to check for and ignore the server blurred areas so best to follow the same pattern.
Hey bob! Thanks for the reply! Do you have a RGB/hex to be sure that I select the right gray? Thanks.
notmyproblem1
I had a closer look at some of the pedestrian’s face blurring in the Sydney CBD and found it looks close to the Gimp’s Gaussian blur with “Size X&Y” near 10 for a 4K image. Selecting and shaping an ellipse to modify just a face seemed to do a credible job.
I also read somewhere in this forum that the blurring function is available freely as code. I don’t have a link sorry.
@notmyproblem1 - Mapillary will automatically blur faces for you. There is also a feature to add additional blurring in the web interface once the photo is uploaded. So you shouldn’t have to do any blurring manually before uploading.