# EgoBlur: Responsible Innovation in Aria

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13093 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.13093/

## Key facts

- Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 14 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Aug 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1405.0312/) (2014)
- [Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.01497/) (2015)
- [Exploring Plain Vision Transformer Backbones for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.16527/) (2022)
- [Knowledge distillation: A good teacher is patient and consistent](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.05237/) (2021)
- [BlazeFace: Sub-millisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.05047/) (2019)
- [LDFA: Latent Diffusion Face Anonymization for Self-driving Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.08931/) (2023)
- [CFA-Net: Controllable Face Anonymization Network with Identity Representation Manipulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.11137/) (2021)
- [Temporally coherent video anonymization through GAN inpainting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.02328/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [Nymeria: A Massive Collection of Multimodal Egocentric Daily Motion in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.09905/) (2024)
- [NaviTrace: Evaluating Embodied Navigation of Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.26909/) (2025)
- [LookOut: Real-World Humanoid Egocentric Navigation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.14466/) (2025)
- [Wanderland: Geometrically Grounded Simulation for Open-World Embodied AI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.20620/) (2025)
- [MobileEgo Anywhere: Open Infrastructure for long horizon egocentric data on commodity hardware](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.05945/) (2026)
- [The ATLAS of Traffic Lights: A Reliable Perception Framework for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.19722/) (2025)
- [Situation Awareness for Driver-Centric Driving Style Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.19595/) (2024)
- [Towards Context-Aware Image Anonymization with Multi-Agent Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.27817/) (2026)
- [Low-Latency Video Anonymization for Crowd Anomaly Detection: Privacy Versus Performance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.18717/) (2024)
- [EgoCampus: Egocentric Pedestrian Eye Gaze Model and Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07668/) (2025)
- [ReGenHuman: Re-Generating Human Appearances for Realistic Full-Body Video Anonymization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.14972/) (2026)
- [SlugTrails: An Egocentric Benchmark for Floor Plan Localization in Large Buildings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.19876/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Project Aria pushes the frontiers of Egocentric AI with large-scale real-world data collection using purposely designed glasses with privacy first approach. To protect the privacy of bystanders being recorded by the glasses, our research protocols are designed to ensure recorded video is processed by an AI anonymization model that removes bystander faces and vehicle license plates. Detected face and license plate regions are processed with a Gaussian blur such that these personal identification information (PII) regions are obscured. This process helps to ensure that anonymized versions of the video is retained for research purposes. In Project Aria, we have developed a state-of-the-art anonymization system EgoBlur. In this paper, we present extensive analysis of EgoBlur on challenging datasets comparing its performance with other state-of-the-art systems from industry and academia including extensive Responsible AI analysis on recently released Casual Conversations V2 dataset.