The steady growth in the adoption of video surveillance systems emphasizes the need for privacy protection techniques. In this paper, we present a method inspired from image abstraction and non-photorealistic rendering fields for creating privacy protection filters. The effectiveness of the proposed filter has been demonstrated by assessing the intelligibility vs. privacy vs. pleasantness in a ...

This paper describes EPFL privacy protection tool for the MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces, body silhouettes, and personal items of people in the provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. The EPFL privacy protection tool mainly relies on two privacy protection filters: a warping-based reversible filter to obscure features with lo...

© Technical Challenges in Location-Aware Video Surveillance Privacy

Recent widespread deployment and increased sophistication of video surveillance systems have raised apprehension of their threat to individuals’ right of privacy. Privacy protection technologies developed thus far have focused mostly on subject detection and visual obfuscation techniques. In this chapter, we discuss a prototype system for privacy-protected video surveillance that is capable of ...

privacy in the context of islamic law, the quran and sunnah reasons, is not mentioned. but this does not mean that the concept of privacy as one of the basic human rights in islamic law has not been considered. various aspects of privacy are presented in the sharia particular discourse. in this study in addition to concept of privacy and law in islamic law, law enforcement in islamic law and so...

background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

Executive Summary Information and communication technologies now enable firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. Privacy concerns are thus no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical literature shows that privacy regulation may affect the extent and direction of data-based innovation...

Nowadays, the use of video surveillance systems for protecting critical environment is becoming more and more popular. On the one hand, video surveillance systems should be able to detect the presence of unauthorized people in the monitored environments to provide effective physical security. On the other hand, video surveillance systems should be also able to preserve the privacy of authorized...

One of the main concerns of the wide use of video surveillance is the loss of individual privacy. Individuals who are not suspects need not be identified on camera recordings. Mechanisms that protect the identity while ensuring legitimate security needs are necessary. Selectively encrypting regions that reveal identity (e.g., faces or vehicle tags) are necessary to preserve individuals’ right t...