Person Blocker - Automatically "block" people in images (like Black Mirror)

[Arthur]

This could be useful for school photos (not to mention Article 17 of the GDPR).

 

Download (GitHub)

 

A script to automatically "block" people in images (like the Black Mirror episode White Christmas) using Mask R-CNN pretrained on the MS COCO dataset. No GPU required!

 

But you can block more than just people: up to 80 different types of objects can be blocked, including giraffes and busses!

 

Usage

Person Blocker is used from the command line:

 

python3 person_blocker.py -i images/img3.jpg -c '(128, 128, 128)' -o 'bus' 'truck'

 

Requirements

The same requirements as Mask R-CNN:

 

• Python 3.4+
  
• TensorFlow 1.3+
  
• Keras 2.0.8+
  
• Numpy, skimage, scipy, Pillow, cython, h5py
  

plus matplotlib and imageio

 

 

Examples

 

python3 person_blocker.py -i images/img2.jpg -c '#c0392b' -o 'giraffe'

 

 

python3 person_blocker.py -i images/img3.jpg -c '(128, 128, 128)' -o 'bus' 'truck'

 

 

Blocking specific object(s) requires 2 steps: running in inference mode to get the object IDs for each object, and then blocking those object IDs.

 

python3 person_blocker.py -i images/img4.jpg -l

 

 

python3 person_blocker.py -i images/img4.jpg -o 1

 

[Meldrew]

Next step, add Photoshop's content aware delete...

[Arthur]

Next step, add Photoshop's content aware delete...

https://github.com/fivemok/image-inpainting

 

^ One day someone will combine these two projects and create an AR app to "delete" people from real life (or make everyone look like Nicolas Cage). That would be both technically impressive and quite scary.