Nick Whitelegg: > Hi, > > Apologies if this is only tangentially OSM related, but I thought I'd ask > here to try > and get some expert advice. > > As you may know, Mapillary has been bought by Facebook and there has been > interest in > developing, or at least starting to develop/actively researching the > possibility of, > some sort of open source alternative. I have been developing OpenTrailView > (opentrailview.org), however I now have a collaborator to work on exploring > an open > source panos platform.
That sounds great. > The main question I have relates to the very necessary privacy steps that > must be > taken, in particular face and license plate blurring. I have experimented with > various libraries using various datasets and models, and have found that the > understand.ai Anonymizer (https://github.com/understand-ai/anonymizer), which > advertises itself as something specifically aimed at implementing the privacy > protections needed to comply with the GDPR, seems to be working the best. > > It detects faces and license plates in clear view on panoramas, which can > then be > blurred. > > My question, then, is what to do about people, or cars, which are further > away from > the camera? In these cases, the algorithm does not necessarily detect the > face or > license plate, but on the other hand in general the faces and license plates > are not > clearly visible, or identifiable, in any case. > So in summary, the tool blurs clearly visible faces or license plates, but in > general > does not blur those which are not clearly visible. Hard to judge without examples. Understand-ai has two examples on github, but that is very clear images. You will probably have to let users add and remove blurs. That is what Mapillary do. > Apologies once again that this is only tangentially related to OSM > (OpenTrailView > uses OSM to connect panos together, so not completely unrelated) but it is > very much > an open geodata issue, so I thought I'd ask to get feedback. > > I am in the UK and the server is in Germany (Hetzner), so GDPR would apply. > > > Thanks, > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Niels Elgaard Larsen _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
