I focused on improving the performance and maintainability of the anonymization system rather than adding new features. The biggest change was a refactor of the video anonymization system. Instead of repeatedly creating new anonymization masks for every frame, the tracker now caches and reuses them wherever possible. This reduces unnecessary work during video processing and also makes it easier in the future to add further performance improvements.
I also improved the applications behavior by preventing both full text anonymization and PII anonymization to be selected at the same time since these targets overlap and would produce redundant processing. I also cleaned up several parts of the codebase by removing unused code and making the everything a bit easier to maintain.
I also spent a lot of time experimenting with more aggressive optimization techniques but after testing, I decided to postpone those changes because they added complexity without providing the improvement I was looking for (and they were kind of buggy and it would take a lot more time to fix them). Instead, I decided to focus on optimizations that are simpler.
Right now I don’t plan to work on improving the performance (even though there probably are tons of improvements to be made) because that stuff is boring and difficult as hell. Instead I’m going to add support for more file types like PDF.