Automatic blur faces in images and video?

[Rudolph Rhein]

What Windows program will blur all faces automatically in video or images?

Once or twice a year I host an event where a few dozen people show up with
kids and family and I want to finally, for the first time, post the
pictures & video on the internet but with all faces blurred so that I don't
have to worry about it (they all know this and they will all be asked first
to approve the blur).

But first, is there something that will do that nowadays automatically?

[Bill W]

On Jul 2, 2022, Rudolph Rhein wrote
(in article <t9pfg1$nc3e$1...@news.mixmin.net>):

> What Windows program will blur all faces automatically in video or images?
>
> Once or twice a year I host an event where a few dozen people show up with
> kids and family

The Genovese crime family?

[Paul]

https://superuser.com/questions/901099/ffmpeg-apply-blur-over-face

"There's the Deface project which splits video into frames,
detects faces using OpenCV and a trained neural network,
and applies a blur to those places."

And don't worry, installing such programs is a zoo and
will test your patience. Your distro might have opencv-GPU
disabled and only opencv-CPU is available (and it runs on
one CPU core instead of all cores), and any such
proposed solution... will be miserably slow.

https://github.com/ORB-HD/deface

Since I did a project involving some of these things recently, usually
what happens is the pulling of dependencies is not perfect,
and you have to pull in some python stuff yourself. You
try to run the program, and immediately it whines
about "some include is missing".

But in terms of approaches, I expect to see words like
"neural network", "OpenCV", "CUDA" or similar, as part
of a solution. You can't do this with "Just C code".

Paul