ISM 2013, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 9-11 December 2013, Anaheim, CA, USA
      
  The widespread growth in the adoption of digital video  surveillance  systems  emphasizes  the  need  for  privacy-preservation  video  analytics  techniques.  While  these  privacy aspects  have  shown  big  interest  in  recent  years,  little  importance  has  been  given  to  the  concept  of  context-aware  privacy protection  filters.  In  this  paper,  we  specifically  focus  on  the dependency  between  privacy  preservation  and  crowd  density.
We show that additional information about the crowd density in  the  scene  can  be  used  in  order  to  adjust  the  level  of privacy protection according to the local needs. This additional information  cue  consists  of  modeling  time-varying  dynamics of  the  crowd  density  using  local  features  as  an  observation of  a  probabilistic  crowd  function.  It  also  involves  a  feature tracking  step  which  enables  excluding  feature  points  on  the background.  This  process  is  favourable  for  the  later  density function estimation since the influence of features irrelevant to the underlying crowd density is removed. Then, the protection level of personal privacy in videos is adapted according to the crowd  density.  Afterwards,  a  framework  for  objective  evalu-
ation  of  the  contextualized  protection  filters  is  proposed.  The effectiveness of the proposed context-aware privacy filters has been  demonstrated  by  assessing  the  intelligibility  vs.  privacy trade-off using videos from different crowd datasets
Type:
        Conférence
      City:
        Anaheim
      Date:
        2013-12-09
      Department:
        Sécurité numérique
      Eurecom Ref:
        4135
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