Since the previous dev log, I worked on fixing the remaining issues in the anonymization workflow and finishing the frontend around the application.
The biggest thing I worked on was selected video anonymization. There were still some problems where selected areas could stop being anonymized correctly or the anonymization could move away from the actual object as it moved through the video or retracking when something like a face was lost. I spent quite a lot of time testing different things, tracking down where the problems were coming from, and making the selected anonymization much more reliable across video frames. This ended up taking a lot more work than I initially expected, but the selected video workflow is now working much better. It still isn’t perfect and there are still some bugs and I think I probably need a lot more time to find and fix them but right now it is in a decent working state so I don’t plan to spend more time on achieving perfection because debugging and stuff is boring as hell.
I also made some improvements to the overall frontend and added the remaining main pages. I added the about, arivacy, documentation pages and also did some other improvents around the frontend. The documentation now explains the available endpoints, detection targets, anonymization modes and other features.
At this point, I feel like the main application is in a really good place. The core functionality is implemented, the main frontend workflow is complete, and the remaining work is mostly getting this thing hosted and stuff.
Next, I plan to write the README file, host the application, and do a final round of testing and cleanup. After that, I think I’ll consider this project finished for a while (I will work on improving it further later) and move on to building something new.