HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
ORB-HD
deface
Python2021–2026
ORB-HD / deface

deface

Video anonymization by face detection

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Video anonymization by face detection

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-11-01 17:31:13 UTC to 2026-07-21 21:32:52 UTC.

0122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

4 sources
a_c·Jul 21, 2026Submission

Show HN: Faceblind – In-browser only video face blurring

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 you This 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
9 points · Open discussion
71a54xd·Nov 1, 2021Submission

Ask HN: Tool / proj to auto blur faces in hi-res video?

Hey everyone! I've been producing some content for a friend of mine that requires a number of people's faces to be blurred for compliance reasons. In short, *I'm looking for an open source tool that can automatically blur faces in 4k video in rendered output*, (everything is post production no live-streaming). Initially the duration, resolution and format of the video made it possible to do this with the "ai backed" tool in Adobe Premiere. However, now I'm working with 4k footage and the video has shifted to a format with a single face moving too far around the frame for Adobe's tool to be useable or has multiple faces. I'm not a domain expert here, since the last time I did anything with ML was five years ago in college. Even if I could get the model together, writing a pipeline to actually blur 4k video is a mystery to me (although I
Read the rest
'm open to suggestions as to how I could align these coordinates to apply blurring). Please note, I'm not looking for a tool to do this live, however I do need something that can handle 4k video. I also have access to an RTX 3090 and my render box with a few RTX a5000 gpus. Basically, I'd pay for a service that does this - however I figured I'd post here on HN to find a project I could potentially support via open source! Any / all recommendations are appreciated! Cheers! EDIT - the best I've found so far is https://github.com/ORB-HD/deface
1 points · Open discussion

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.