Media Services Face Redactor retirement and migration
This article discusses the retirement and migration for Media Services Face Detector retirement and migration.
Overview
As Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standards outlines, Microsoft is committed to fairness, privacy, security, and transparency with respect to AI systems. To align with these standards, Azure Media Services is retiring the Face Redactor Restv2 preset on September 14, 2023. This preset offers face detection and redaction (blurring) of selected individuals in video files. After September 14, 2023, any applications you have developed using the Azure Media Redactor (RESTv2) will begin experiencing errors or failed job submissions.
Note
There is no replacement planned for the China region.
Migration steps
There will not be a direct replacement for the Face Redactor. If you would like to instead detect people in a video, we recommend you update your applications to use the Video Indexer APIs for detecting observed people and matching observed people to faces and submit a request to get access to the Limited Access program for these features. See the Limited Access policy for more details.
Microsoft Q&A
If you have further questions, please go to Microsoft Q&A the community support channel to get answers to technical questions.