02 / 09PremiumComputer Vision

Google Street View Blurring

Detect and blur every face and licence plate across billions of street-level images, with a human review loop for ambiguous cases.

Read time
9 min
Diagrams
2 architecture
Key metric
mAP and recall
Difficulty
Medium
Object detectionConfidence thresholdsHuman in the loop
Google Street View Blurring illustration

Step 01 · Problem statement

Interviewer

What is the core problem the Google Street View Blurring System aims to solve, and why is it important?

What's inside this design

  1. 01Problem Statement
  2. 02Identify Metrics
  3. 03Train and Evaluate Model
  4. 04Design the System
  5. 05Scale the Design
  6. 2 architecture diagrams