Plus I can't even see how this simplifies anything, if you're posting to instagram it's surely simpler to skip the extra step and just use instagram's built in editor, even if you have to place the emojis yourself?
Or you could just not post those photos. What's even the point of posting a photo of your child, with the face hidden? Seems very niche. Just post another photo.
Casey Liss is a very anxious person, there is nothing wrong with that but if you make apps for people like yourself, it's an advantage to be more mainstream!
I don't use social media, but I have a group chat with a handful of close friends. Sometimes, I like to insert emojis into a photo for comedic effect.
Now I can do this without fighting with iOS's horrible Markup editor.
(Quite frankly, I'm surprised that this isn't part of iOS already.)
If you’re sharing to WhatsApp… just use their editor, it allows adding stickers and emojis natively, it doesn’t auto detect faces… but is that strictly necessary?
For double points, if you don’t wanna share on WhatsApp you can still use their editor and just send it to yourself. Now you are still only using one app, and the new photo is saved automatically to your camera roll.
Just tested it out and I was easily able to put an emoji over a face and resize/rotate it with pinch/drag type motions. Anything like that in the default Apple app?
Granted, there is nothing like the automation features in OP's app, so at least that part is interesting.
Might be a cultural US thing, but this is something my wife does a lot and I see a lot of people doing. It's one of those things that might not make sense if you don't have kids.
So blurring them out somehow protects privacy and lets parents their habitual social media posting.
That is not so say what the developer here did was wrong, I commend him for having the integrity to not reach for a "99cents/month" subscription, but that is unfortunately where all the money is unless you have a high volume app.
As he explained on his podcast, this project was designed to solve his own problem. The problem with apps designed to solve your own problem is that very often, your problem is not 1) shared by others willing to pay or 2) you don't solve the problem in the same way others want to solve a problem.
I don't, so I can't see the point of posting them because I don't imagine that anyone would look at them. But I could well be wrong.
Description: https://devpost.com/software/patronus-k61iv4
Code: https://github.com/parasmehta/patronus
Unlike this app, we also used age and emotion detection on top of face recognition.
Also reviews can be paid for…
This would make it possible to legally live stream in countries with strict privacy laws like Switzerland or Germany.
People are already doing this with other apps as you see in dating apps and stuff.
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> * The faces of protestors who are standing up against a grotesque war
I don't know if I find this disgustingly opportunistic or a solid gesture of protest and support.
Maybe both
But that'd be the best option yes.
>Governments and tech companies such as Facebook are now continuously scanning all photos uploaded to the internet for faces, locations, and objects, effectively removing anonymity for anybody that is in any picture. A user might want to share a picture from a protest, but other users in the background might not want it known they were there.
>I would like to make a privacy focused camera application. The application will allow the user to take a picture and then it will find the faces in the picture. The user then will have to tap on the individuals in the photo they would like to be included in the final picture. By default all the faces in the picture will be marked as discard. After the user has finished selecting the faces the final picture will be produced. The faces not selected will have an effect applied to them to obscure that person identity. The user will then have the ability to share the photo to other applications, such as Twitter.
There is a lot of code in the standard library that includes face detection, didn't even have to add any libraries and was able to do the project in the last 2 weeks of class. I ended up putting a heavy mosaic over the faces, but emojis would have been just as easy. Still preferred Android dev over iOS after it, but was impressed with the included camera features.
To me the use case seems weird that she is trying to hide her kids so she can constantly post them on Instagram, when she has full control over taking pictures of her kids and what she puts on her page.
It'd be nice if this was usually built into whatever social media app people use but I wouldn't trust most social media companies to not store the original image.
A sea of mini Nickolas Cage faces in pictures of your child at a playground would entertain some people.
We need pics of thousands in the streets with Sergei Lavrov's face. Or better yet, the warmonger in chief himself.
(In this case, there is true virtue - but profoundly unlikely to be safely applied in the use case that exists)
For example a parking lot at a cancer hospital. The owner of a car can be identified by plate and therefore you need to make sure you don't expose them possibly having cancer etc.
If he had wanted to make serious money as an app developer, he wouldn’t have quit his day job.
That said, yeah it's likely there will be competitors springing up left and right if it becomes popular (recent example is this "unpacking" game, the app store was flooded with clones within a month). For apps like this, your best hope is probably that a bigger party like Instagram knocks on your door and offers to buy you out to integrate the feature into their own apps. It's cynical, but this is where we find ourselves; I don't believe single feature apps have much of a future.
A photo manipulation app (generally speaking) is great, but unless you add a social network to it like Instagram did it's not going to go far.