BlurrSmith.ai

Inspiration

In today's world of social media and easy sharing, it's common to accidentally reveal sensitive information in photos and videos. Think about the unintentional privacy breaches – like sharing someone's face without their consent or exposing license plate numbers. These slip-ups can lead to identity theft or unwanted surveillance.

The growth of online surveillance and legal and ethical concerns around privacy have made safeguarding personal information a priority. We wanted to empower everyday people to regain control over their privacy online. That's where our project comes in.

Our inspiration comes from the need to give you a simple tool to blur faces and license plates in your visual content.

What it does

With technology on our side, we're making it easy for you to protect your privacy and comply with legal and ethical standards in an era where sharing images and videos is a part of our daily lives

How we built it

We created a web interface that allows users to upload or take an image. The image is then sent to a pre-trained ML model for detection and blurring via API. The Model carries out its functions and sends the modified image back to the clientside. The user then can view and download the new image onto their device

Challenges we ran into

Sending and receiving base64 image files and then displaying those image files was difficult because of the large image addresses. As well as this setting up a collaborative GitHub project and working collectively as a team of 4 provided its own challenges

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Project Submission as first-time hackers, Use of generative AI, Good web design

What we learned

Computer Vision concepts, Image API POST requests

What's next for BlurrSmith.ai

Catch us at KnightHacks

Built With

Submitted to

ShellHacks 2023

Created by

I worked on integrating the api to the frontend, sending image files between the client side, and activated a lot of the React components setup by the rest of my team

Lewin Bobda
I worked on the logo and figuring out decoration scheme and the website name as well as tweaked and worked mostly with the front-end.

Chris Jaksec
I had mainly worked with the frontend components. It was very difficult to get a grasp on the frontend part as it was my first time working with react and node but I ended up getting a good grasp on it to develop the general components of the webpage.

Nathan-Chery
Mainly worked on the React front end to build components such and made the front end dynamically change in response to the backend. Although I understood React syntax before, this was my first time building out a full React Project. This weekend was a great experience as I learned Typescript and a little bit of Tailwind css.

Richard W