1 Assisted Media Filtering
Media broadcasts often require personally-identifiable visual information to be obfuscated to preserve anonymity of witnesses, suspects, and minors. Currently, this process requires a manual post-processing step, incurring a significant delay that prevents content from being televised live. Using scale-invariant features and descriptors, we propose a unique clustering system that can automatically obscure an identified target object in subsequent video frames. The system maintains awareness of similar subjects, avoiding obfuscation of incorrect objects while tracking the target.