Since the previous dev log, I continued building the application workflow and have almost completed the anonymization process.
I first worked on the anonymization routes and updated the backend so that the frontend can send detected regions back to the API and have them anonymized. This allows the user to choose which detections they want to anonymize instead of always having to process everything. I also added support for passing dynamic padding (and also made it so that other dynamic stuff is easy to add later) through the request so that the effects can be customized based on what the user wants.
I also added client side file handling required for the results page. The original and processed files are kept available in the browser so they can be previewed and downloaded without needing to be stored on the server. Everything also handles missing files and stuff without breaking and I also added error handling with notifications which are displayed to the user. I also made a bunch of smaller UI improvements while connecting everything together.
At this point, the main frontend workflow is coming together. Next I will fix small remaining issues and improve reliability rather than adding any major change.
The next things I plan to work on are to mainly fix bugs in the code. Like GIFs still need some additional handling to make sure detections are applied across the animation rather than being treated like a normal image and the existing video tracking system is able to follow detections across frames, but during testing I noticed that the anonymization can drift away from the actual detected regions in videos. This is the major thing I need to fix. And I also plan to do some small changes to the UI and stuff and fix some bugs there before adding the remaining pages like the API and documentation pages.