发明授权
- 专利标题: Automatic face detection and identity masking in images, and applications thereof
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申请号: US13302634申请日: 2011-11-22
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公开(公告)号: US08509499B2公开(公告)日: 2013-08-13
- 发明人: Sergey Ioffe , Lance Williams , Dennis Strelow , Andrea Frome , Luc Vincent
- 申请人: Sergey Ioffe , Lance Williams , Dennis Strelow , Andrea Frome , Luc Vincent
- 申请人地址: US CA Mountain View
- 专利权人: Google Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Google Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Mountain View
- 代理机构: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- 主分类号: G06K9/36
- IPC分类号: G06K9/36
摘要:
A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity.