How to stay on camera without your real face being recognisable
Tell Vizard Agent that the point is not to be recognised, not to look better. It converts you into a non-photorealistic character rather than retouching the footage, does it section by section so the character stays the same person throughout, and inspects the result at full size against the original to confirm you are actually unrecognisable.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say why you want it, not just the style. "Make me animated" reads to Vizard Agent as a style request, and a style request gets you a stylish version of your own face, recognisable to anyone who knows you. Asking to see one section first is cheap, and it lets you judge before the whole video is done.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Two different requests hide inside "change my face". Enhancement makes the footage look better and leaves you exactly as identifiable as before. Anonymisation means the person on screen is no longer recognisably you. "Does this look good" and "can I tell who this is" are separate questions, and only the second one matters here. In the session behind this article it:
- Sampled frames from a portrait video and checked the spoken audio and its timing before anything changed.
- Prepared short portrait chunks, so each section could be treated and the approved look carried into the next.
- Applied a cinematic enhancement to the first section, compared it with the original at full size for identity, and rejected it: a good-looking result that did not do the job.
- Transformed the first section into a non-photorealistic character instead and inspected it against the original at full size, since at playback size almost anything looks anonymous.
- Carried the approved look through the second and final sections.
- Rebuilt the video with the music and overlays and re-checked continuity.
When does this not work well?
Anonymisation and performance pull against each other. The more thoroughly the face is abstracted, the less of your expression survives, and a video whose whole point is your reaction may not be worth anonymising. Light stylisation is often still recognisable, and anonymising the face is not anonymising you: your voice, a room, a uniform or a tattoo can still give you away.
Common questions
Is an enhancement pass enough? No. Vizard Agent will tell you that it leaves you just as identifiable.
Will my expressions survive? Some. The stronger the transformation, the less of them Vizard Agent can keep.
How do I know it is anonymous enough? Vizard Agent shows you full-size frames beside the original. You decide.