minimaxir/person-blocker

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2012 stars · 208 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python command-line script that automatically censors ('blocks') people and up to 80 other object types in images using a pretrained Mask R-CNN model on MS COCO. It outputs both static PNG and animated GIF versions of the blocked image.

Use cases

• blur out people in photos automatically
• censor faces and objects in images like Black Mirror
• anonymize people in pictures before sharing
• detect and mask specific objects like buses or giraffes in an image
• run object detection on images from the command line without a GPU

When to choose

• you want automated, no-manual-editing censoring of people or objects in images
• you need a simple CLI workflow and don't have a GPU
• you want both static and animated censored outputs

When to avoid

• you need production-grade, maintained software - it depends on old TensorFlow 1.x/Keras and sees infrequent updates
• you need video processing rather than still images
• you want fine-grained manual redaction control rather than automatic detection

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

image-processing computer-vision machine-learning computer-vision image-processing privacy python cli cross-platform mask-rcnn object-detection image-censoring black-mirror coco tensorflow

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