Visual privacy protection, i.e., obfuscation of personal visual information in video surveillance is an important and increasingly popular research topic. However, while many datasets are available for testing performance of various video analytics, little to nothing exists for evaluation of visual privacy tools. Since surveillance and privacy protection have contradictory objectives, the desig...

Privacy is a simple term for two complicated concepts. At its most basic layer, privacy is always about people and their control of their personal information. Information privacy protects individuals by protecting information about them from unauthorized disclosure (think compliance with FERPA, HIPAA, IRB regulations, or state breach notification laws). Autonomy privacy protects individuals by...

Smart surveillance, is the use of automatic video analysis technologies in video surveillance applications. This paper attempts to answer a number of questions about smart surveillance: What are the applications of smart surveillance? What are the system architectures for smart surveillance? What are the key technologies? What are the some of the key technical challenges? and What are the impli...

In view of recent attacks on smart grid surveillance is of vital importance to enforce surveillance based disaster recovery management operations to ensure seamless energy generation anddistribution. The reliability of disaster recoverymanagement depends on availability and privacy preservation of surveillance data. In this paperwe propose a reliable privacy preserving smart grid surveillance a...

The Internet is one of the main communication platforms of our society. In many countries, communication contents and patterns are surveilled aiming to identify, punish or block undesired ideas. I focus with my research on fully decentralized and secure communication platforms which cannot be surveilled or switched off, on Android-based wireless mesh networks which support local communication t...

CONTEXT Reducing HIV incidence in the United States and improving health outcomes for people living with HIV hinge on improving access to highly effective treatment and overcoming barriers to continuous treatment. Using laboratory tests routinely reported for HIV surveillance to monitor individuals' receipt of HIV care and contacting them to facilitate optimal care could help achieve these obje...

In this paper we describe a technology for protecting privacy in video systems. The paper presents a review of privacy in video surveillance and describes how a computer vision approach to understanding the video can be used to represent “just enough” of the information contained in a video stream to allow video-based tasks (including both surveillance and other “person aware” applications) to ...

Automated digital video surveillance has come of age and a new threat to personal privacy is posed. Traditional physical security coupled with information systems has slowly been eroding personal privacy. But the advent of automated video analytics and the latest integrated information systems will truly open Pandora’s Box. The possibility that your employer will know when you arrive at work, w...

From copyright protection to error concealment, video data hiding has found usage in a great number of applications. In this work, we introduce the detailed framework of using data hiding for privacy information preservation in a video surveillance environment. To protect the privacy of individuals in a surveillance video, the images of selected individuals need to be erased, blurred or re-rend...