Axis Live Privacy Shield, an edge analytics camera software that masks people in realtime in video streams at up to full frame rate, will now support a face blur feature.
The latest addition enables different levels of masking efficiency, whether masking entire individuals, faces or the inverse. It adds even more value and possibilities to Axis Live Privacy Shield, which today offers motion-based dynamic masking and AI-based dynamic masking.
With AI-based masking – supported in selected Axis cameras with a deep-learning processing unit (DLPU) – the application analyzes live video for human forms and gives users the choice of masking humans, faces or the background in restricted places. It enables users to schedule when the privacy application should be applied and removed, such as using the new functionality on weekdays and removing it during weekends.
Axis Live Privacy Shield compares a live camera view to a set background scene and applies dynamic masking to areas of change – essentially, moving people and objects. Users can choose between transparent colour or mosaic masking, the level of masking required, and how often the background automatically updates. Colour masking provides the greatest privacy protection, effectively eliminating the collection of personal data while enabling movements to be seen. Mosaic masking shows moving objects in very low resolution and allows users to better distinguish forms by seeing an object’s colours.