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Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal
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Simon Willison
Sep 13
shot-scraper 1.12
Shot‑scraper 1.12 adds WebP support, allowing users to capture web page screenshots in WebP format with an optional quality setting. The new --quality flag controls compression, while omitting it produces lossless images. WebP screenshots are reported to be significantly smaller than JPEG or PNG equivalents.
arXiv AI
Jul 29
Face De-Identification: A Domain-Centric Survey from Capture to Processing
arXiv:2607. 25926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face de-identification (De-ID) aims to remove or conceal personally identifiable facial features in images or videos to prevent identity recognition while preserving utility for downstream tasks.
Simon Willison
Sep 8
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
Simon Willison announces the release of ChatGPT Images 2.5, noting that OpenAI’s image generation models have processed over 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image API. The new version improves instruction‑following across multiple turns, speeds up responses, and better preserves subjects from reference photos. Two new API model IDs—gpt‑image‑2.5‑sunburst and gpt‑image‑2.5‑flare—are available, with Sunburst recommended for precision editing and Flare for fast, high‑quality everyday generation. Willison has updated his openai_image.py CLI tool to accept reference images, demonstrating its use with a raccoon scientist prompt.
Simon Willison
Sep 5
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Simon Willison introduces GPT‑6 Astra, a new model that offers improved attention to detail, better prompt comprehension, and the ability to generate more sophisticated outputs. The model excels at creating 3D renderings, producing detailed scenes such as gardens, shipyards, animals, cityscapes, and even Dyson spheres. Willison highlights its whimsical creativity, noting examples like a pelican wearing a red neckerchief riding a bicycle.
Google AI Blog
Feb 23, 2024
VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
Posted by Long Zhao, Senior Research Scientist, and Ting Liu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research An astounding number of videos are available on the Web, covering a variety of content from everyday moments people share to historical moments to scientific observations, each of which contains a unique record of the world. The right tools could help researchers analyze these videos, transforming how we understand the world around us.
Google AI Blog
Mar 19, 2024
SCIN: A new resource for representative dermatology images
Posted by Pooja Rao, Research Scientist, Google Research Health datasets play a crucial role in research and medical education, but it can be challenging to create a dataset that represents the real world. For example, dermatology conditions are diverse in their appearance and severity and manifest differently across skin tones.