Automated Facial and License Plate Blurring

Gman · **Joined:** Feb 01, 2015 **Posts:** 1

Hello All,
I would like to blur out facial and license plate information automtatically, just like what you see on google street view. I have many digital image files and am too lazy to do them manually. Is there a plug-in or something similar for this already? I am running on windows PC. Thank you
Gman

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2016 4:48 am **(#2)**

There is probably a few ways you could go about doing this.
ellipse select > blur> gaussion blur may be one. Make sure the selection is feathered.

You could also look at the rasterize script http://gimpscripts.com/2013/05/rasterize-2/

iarga · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2016 9:08 am **(#3)**

You can't do this automated with GIMP. You have to search elsewhere for a solution. Also, if you blur out something, you have to do it in a way that you can't recover the numbers or the faces with unblurring and deconvolution strategies.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2016 9:50 am **(#4)**

Use, Filters → Blur → Pixelise
More effective, use Filters → Distorts → Ripple (Amplitude 20) before Pixelise.

Using both Ripple (Verical, Amplitude 20) & Pixelise

Using both Ripple (Horizontal, Amplitude 20) & Pixelise

MareroQ · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2016 1:25 pm **(#5)**

For testing: Elsamuko Face Detection Plugin

https://sites.google.com/site/elsamuko/gimp/facedetect

http://registry.gimp.org/node/24397