Show HN: Faceblind – In-browser only video face blurring

A developer created Faceblind, an in-browser video face blurring tool that uses MediaPipe pose detection as a fallback for face detection, hosted as a static GitHub page. The tool supports manual editing and provides a downloadable mask with an ffmpeg command for faster local processing.

In the midst of building a climbing app, I want to use climbing videos of other climbers but I didn't want to show their face without their consent so I tried to look for quick solution with ffmpeg to blur human faces. There is https://github.com/ORB-HD/deface https://github.com/ORB-HD/deface . But why use a ready made software when you can have AI build one for you This project uses media pipe pose detection as a fallback of face detection. The app is hosted on github page as it is completely static. I've only tested in chrome and firefox, with climbing videos medium range . The detection is jittery so manual editing is supported. The mask can be separately downloaded as a webp, and a pairing ffmpeg command is provided which can be run locally and much faster. Source code at https://github.com/kmcheung12/faceblind https://github.com/kmcheung12/faceblind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998670 Points: 1 Comments: 0