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SYNAPSIS: Privacy-aware audiovisual research

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A platform for masking faces, bodies, and voices in audiovisual research data, with the goal of helping social-science and humanities researchers share material while protecting privacy.

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For: Social-science and humanities researchers using audiovisual data
Worth noticing: The homepage links to notes and slides from The Masking Lab 2026, openly archived on Zenodo under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23503500.

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The homepage describes tools and training for masking sensitive information in video and audio, naming faces, bodies, and voices as targets. It connects the work to sharing social-science and humanities research data and lists a Masking Lab held at VU Amsterdam on 19 October 2026. The navigation separates a demo, training, resources, and news, while the lab’s synthesis notes and slides are linked from Zenodo.

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