Enable Face Blur on Verkada Cameras
Blur faces for live and archived video
Verkada Command supports blurring all faces in live footage and selectively blurring faces in archived footage. Use this to protect the privacy of individuals recorded by your camera system.
Enable Live Face Blur
Live face blur detects and blurs faces in the live video feed on grids and the individual camera page. This setting does not apply to recorded footage, so camera history will still show faces.
You can access and enable Live Face Blur via the live video feed for a single camera, grid, or through the global Cameras Settings page.
Live Face Blur at the camera and grid level is specific to the user who configures it. This choice does not enable Face Blur for any other users.
Live video feed - Camera page
In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.
Select a camera.
To the right of the live video feed, click Live Face Blur.
Live video feed - Grids
In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.
From the left navigation, select Grids.
In the bottom right of your grid, click Live Face Blur.
Camera Settings page
Organization Admins can enable Live Face Blur for all users and cameras within the organization with the Default Live Face Blur Setting.
Individual users can override this global setting for individual cameras or grids on a per-camera or per-grid basis. Any overridden settings will only be visible to the user who configured them, leaving other users with the Default Live Face Blur Setting experience.
In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.
From the left navigation bar, click Cameras Settings.
Next to Default Live Face Blur Setting, select On from the dropdown.
Considerations
CB52/53-E and TE, and CB62/63-E and TE support live face blur when LPR (license plate recognition) mode is disabled.
This feature is only available on desktop.
This feature is not available for live links.
Live Face Blur does not affect saved footage.
Face Blur works independently of any other features, such as people analytics. Thus, faces can still be captured in historical footage and visible in the Motion, History, and People tabs of the camera's page.
Create a Face Blur archive
In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.
On the left navigation, click Archives.
Hover over an archive and click > Prepare for Download.
In the bottom right, under Archive Copies, toggle on Blur Faces.
(Optional) If you have a second-generation or newer camera, you can use selective face blur.
To the right of the Blur Faces toggle, click All Faces.
In the top right of a face profile, click the unblur icon.
Click Done.
Selective Face Blur creates an archive, blurring all faces except those you deselect. This is a great option for preserving bystanders' privacy when exporting video of an event.
Face blur works best when:
There are only a few people in each frame.
People's faces are clearly visible; hats and masks often partially obscure them, leading to missed detections.
For optimal accuracy, you may see repeated individuals. Make your selections, click Done, and then Save to create the archive.
In the bottom right, click Create Copy.
Once the copy has been completed, you can:
Click to download
Click to attach to an Incident
Click > to share
Click > Upload to an Integration
Click > to remove the copy
Considerations
CB52/53-E and TE, and CB62/63-E and TE, only support selective face blur when LPR (license plate recognition) mode is disabled.
This feature is only available when creating archives on a desktop.
Last updated
Was this helpful?