Security Privacy And RiskRisk

Client-side camera processing for gesture control and object detection

April 4, 2026r/webdev, r/SideProject

In r/webdev and r/SideProject, builders reduce privacy risk by keeping camera data on-device for computer-vision projects, avoiding backends and limiting sensitive video handling.

All running client-side in the browser with MediaPipe WASM.
No backend, no server, camera data never leaves the device.
It uses an open vocabulary object detection neural network (yolo_world_v2l), so any target can be programmed, not just pigeons.
r/webdev
r/SideProject
privacyon-deviceneural networkopen source

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