Project Aria pushes the frontiers of Egocentric AI with large-scale real-world data collection using purposely designed glasses with privacy first approach. To protect the privacy of bystanders being recorded by the glasses, our research protocols are designed to ensure recorded video is processed by an AI anonymization model that removes bystander faces and vehicle license plates. Detected face and license plate regions are processed with a Gaussian blur such that these personal identification information (PII) regions are obscured. This process helps to ensure that anonymized versions of the video is retained for research purposes. In Project Aria, we have developed a state-of-the-art anonymization system EgoBlur. In this paper, we present extensive analysis of EgoBlur on challenging datasets comparing its performance with other state-of-the-art systems from industry and academia including extensive Responsible AI analysis on recently released Casual Conversations V2 dataset.
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@article{arxiv.2308.13093,
title = {EgoBlur: Responsible Innovation in Aria},
author = {Nikhil Raina and Guruprasad Somasundaram and Kang Zheng and Sagar Miglani and Steve Saarinen and Jeff Meissner and Mark Schwesinger and Luis Pesqueira and Ishita Prasad and Edward Miller and Prince Gupta and Mingfei Yan and Richard Newcombe and Carl Ren and Omkar M Parkhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13093},
year = {2023}
}