International Business Machines Corporation
Protecting individuals privacy in public through visual opt-out, signal detection, and marker detection

Abstract:

A method for protecting anonymity of an individual in public is presented. The computer-implemented method may include registering a plurality of facial features associated with the individual, and, in response to capturing an image of the individual from a video stream, determining whether the facial features associated with the individual are registered. The computer-implemented method may further include, in response to the determination that the facial features associated with the individual are registered, obscuring the facial features of the individual captured from the video stream with an unidentifiable image.