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A camera that blurs faces the moment you shoot.
| Role | Solo: both platforms | Year | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Shipped | Room | AI |
| Built with | Kotlin · Swift · On-device face detection · CameraX · AVFoundation | ||
| Where to find it | Google PlaySource | ||
1 · General notes
A camera app that automatically detects and blurs faces immediately after capture, for people who want to photograph a place or an event without photographing the people in it. Built natively for both Android and iOS.
Photographing a wedding hall, a classroom or a family gathering means capturing faces that should not be captured. Editing them out afterwards means the unblurred original existed, was stored, and possibly synced to a cloud backup before you got to it.
Halal Camera closes that window: detection and blurring happen right after capture, on the device, so the file that reaches storage is already filtered.
2 · Challenges
DETAIL 1
The problem
The natural implementation saves the photo, then processes it. That leaves the original on disk, where a gallery scanner or a cloud backup can pick it up before it is replaced.
As built
Processing happens on the in-memory frame before anything is persisted, so the only file that ever exists on disk is the filtered one.
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