Replace Faces with Emojis

an example picture of a group of people whose faces have been automatically replaced with emojis

Instructions: Upload a picture of a group of people to automatically replace all the faces with emojis.

Why did I make this?

I write a newsletter for an elementary school and often need to hide the faces of kids in the pictures that are included in the emails. I started out manually replacing the faces with emojis in photoshop, but that takes a huge amount of time. Being the lazy software engineer that I am, I spent 10x the amount of time writing a script to automatically replace all the faces in an image with emojis.

This uses the slow, but accurate RetinaFace python library.

Uploaded and processed images are deleted from the server after 30 minutes