Making interruptions on video calls disappear with biometric recognition

A rudimentary way of removing specific uninvited people from a video conference using facial recognition algorithms has been demonstrated by researchers in Romania.

The tool is called Video Stream Privacy and is designed to protect the privacy of people who are caught, unwanted, on a web camera, according to a pair of researchers at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University.

Their brief paper is short on some details but clearly describes the process.

A so-called anchor's face is scanned to differentiate it …

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