Autonomous Environment Observation Network
Marsstein AEON
Privacy infrastructure for physical AI. Faces and license plates blurred on every frame — at hundreds of frames per second, inside the EU, with a verifiable audit trail. Your driving data becomes usable the moment it's recorded.
Modern ADAS and autonomous-driving programs record terabytes of street footage every day. Under GDPR, every visible face and license plate in that footage is personal data — it cannot be shared with labeling teams, algorithm vendors, or overseas R&D centers until it is anonymized. Manual review doesn't scale. Generic blurring tools miss detections, destroy video quality, or can't read automotive data formats at all. Marsstein AEON anonymizes driving footage at production scale: purpose-built detection models, GPU-native processing, and compliance evidence for every single file.
Pipeline
How It Works
Precision Face Detection & Anonymization in Real Traffic
Reliable detection of all pedestrians and individuals in public spaces — even under complex lighting and within dense crowds.
Global Delivery
From European roads to your R&D center — anywhere in the world, without touching GDPR.
Our customers collect test footage in Europe, but their engineering teams sit in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Silicon Valley, or Seoul. The hard part is not just anonymization — it's getting the data home legally, fast, and provably intact. Marsstein handles the full chain: Collect in the EU, Anonymize in the EU, Deliver to your region, and Verify on both sides. The China route is our most battle-tested: we deliver terabytes to Hong Kong and mainland China in production today, navigating the cloud-connectivity realities between Europe and China so your team doesn't have to.
Key Features
Every-frame anonymization
Detection runs on all frames; blur never drops out mid-sequence.
Built for automotive data
MCAP/ROS2, multi-topic H.265 streams, fisheye and multi-camera rigs, and OEM-proprietary log formats. Original container structure, metadata, and sensor channels are preserved.
EU data residency
Processing runs in EU data centers (Frankfurt). Raw footage never leaves the EU; only anonymized output is delivered onward.
Global delivery built in
Optional cross-border leg replicates the anonymized output server-side to your team's region: Hong Kong, mainland China, US, or anywhere else. Checksum-verified and fail-closed.
Audit trail per file
SHA-256 hash chain from source to output, stored in a compliance log you can hand to a regulator or works council.
Quality-preserving
Hardware H.265 re-encode; only the masked regions change, the footage stays training-grade.
"Proven in production: more than 100 TB of real fleet footage anonymized for automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with automated per-file compliance evidence."
Frequently asked questions
Is the blur reversible?+
No. The mosaic destroys the underlying pixels; the original values are not recoverable from the output. Raw footage is processed in the EU and deleted per retention agreement.
Does anonymization break my training data?+
No. Only detected face/plate regions are modified. Resolution, frame rate, container structure, timestamps, and all non-video channels (CAN, GPS, lidar topics in MCAP) pass through untouched.
How do you prove coverage?+
Every batch runs an automated readability audit: we try to OCR plates and match faces on the output. The measured leak rate ships with the delivery report.
How does the cross-border transfer actually work?+
After anonymization, the output is replicated server-side between cloud regions (EU → Hong Kong, mainland China, US, or wherever your team sits) — no laptops, no VPNs, no manual copies. Every file is checksum-verified after transfer, and a delivery guard refuses to ship anything that lacks a matching anonymization audit record. You can receive the data in a Marsstein-managed bucket or directly in your own cloud account (Alibaba, Tencent, AWS, GCP).
Can it run inside our infrastructure?+
Yes — the pipeline deploys into your cloud account or on your own GPU servers; footage never has to touch Marsstein-managed infrastructure.