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Faceblind

In-browser only video face blurring

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In the midst of building a climbing app, I want to use climbing videos of other climbers but I didn't want to show their face without their consent so I tried to look for quick solution with ffmpeg to blur human faces. There is https://github.com/ORB-HD/deface. But why use a ready made software when you can have AI build one for youThis project uses media pipe pose detection as a fallback of face detection. The app is hosted on github page as it is completely static. I've only tested in chrome and firefox, with climbing videos (medium range). The detection is jittery so manual editing is supported. The mask can be separately downloaded as a webp, and a pairing ffmpeg command is provided which can be run locally and much faster.Source code at https://github.com/kmcheung12/faceblind

HN · launched Jul 21, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 49%) · 0 views

Niche: video production and processing tools · 243 launches, 40 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Client-side video face blurring can be easily implemented with standard libraries like MediaPipe FaceMesh / BlazeFace running via TensorFlow.js or ONNX Runtime Web alongside HTML5 Canvas or WebCodecs.

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Competitors

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Attention rank: #58 of 184 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 201 days after the earliest competitor.

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