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So of course I read this article hoping to learn about an off-the-shelf tool that would do a great job of scanned text reconstruction. Alas, the best candidates were "no code available."
Yet again mosaic blur's inferiority to opaque rectangle is demonstrated.
More generally if you want to redact pixels, then don't replace them with information that depend on those pixel values. It doesn't necessarily mean a black rectangle, but that's certainly simple and it works.
My best guess is that, having seen blurring of faces (which is arguably OK when one merely wants to avoid casual attempts at identification, while retaining a ‘natural’ look), they assumed this was the proper way to do it in all cases.
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More generally if you want to redact pixels, then don't replace them with information that depend on those pixel values. It doesn't necessarily mean a black rectangle, but that's certainly simple and it works.
I’m slightly curious as to how, in these cases, someone came to decide that blurring was the right way to do it. It seems unlikely that they never thought of simply blacking/ blanking the text, but if so, then blurring must have seemed preferable. My best guess is that, having seen blurring of faces (which is arguably OK when one merely wants to avoid casual attempts at identification, while retaining a ‘natural’ loo…
Unfortunately, part of "leaving the visual interest behind" is precisely "pixels that depend on their real underlying values"....
The article references the famous face-depixellating PULSE GAN. Let's remember that PULSE also gave us Barry O'Bama. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
More generally if you want to redact pixels, then don't replace them with information that depend on those pixel values. It doesn't necessarily mean a black rectangle, but that's certainly simple and it works.
I’m slightly curious as to how, in these cases, someone came to decide that blurring was the right way to do it. It seems unlikely that they never thought of simply blacking/ blanking the text, but if so, then blurring must have seemed preferable. My best guess is that, having seen blurring of faces (which is arguably OK when one merely wants to avoid casual attempts at identification, while retaining a ‘natural’ loo…
So much brain power only to be used to de-blur japanese p0rn
Even the best can make obvious mistakes. "I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2M [video]" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067340 Showing a blurry 16 out of 24 trezor wallet seed words https://youtu.be/dT9y-KQbqi4?t=1720