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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Sergey Ioffe, Mountain Veiw, CA (US);
Lance Williams, Mountain Veiw, CA (US);
Dennis Strelow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrea Frome, Berkeley, CA (US);
Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sergey Ioffe, Mountain Veiw, CA (US);
Lance Williams, Mountain Veiw, CA (US);
Dennis Strelow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrea Frome, Berkeley, CA (US);
Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
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.