As democratization, availability, and acquisition of data is increasing, privacy is becoming a concern. Regulations such as GDPR have been introduced to address the privacy rights of users. To help maintain privacy, this model can be used to blur faces.
License requirements
To complete this workflow, the following are the license requirements:
- ArcGIS Desktop—ArcGIS Image Analyst extension for ArcGIS Pro
- ArcGIS Enterprise—ArcGIS Image Server with raster analytics configured
- ArcGIS Online—ArcGIS Pro or Professional Plus user type.
Model details
This model has the following characteristics:
- Input—High-resolution, 3-band street-level imagery/oriented imagery, in a compatible image format, as per the Classify Pixels Using Deep Learning tool.
- Output—Image with blurred human faces.
- Compute—This workflow is compute intensive and a GPU with compute capability of 6.0 or higher is recommended.
- Architecture—This model is based on the MTCNN model.
Access and download the model
Download the Face Blurring pretrained model from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Alternatively, access the model directly from ArcGIS Pro, or consume it in ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online.
- Browse to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.
- Sign in with your ArcGIS Online credentials.
- Search for Face Blurring and open the item page from the search results.
- Click the Download button to download the model.
You can use the downloaded .dlpk file directly in ArcGIS Pro.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
| Date | Description |
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| February 2021 |
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