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Description
Abstract
Recent widespread deployment and increased sophistication of video surveillance systems have raised many
concerns on their potential threats to individuals' right of privacy. Thus far, there is no comprehensive
solution, at both the technology and policy levels, on how privacy can be protected in video surveillance. The
goals of this project are to develop the necessary technologies to protect privacy of individuals without
compromising the benefits brought forth by modem video surveillance, and to study the public-policy aspect
of how the privacy technologies can be applied and enforced. The main deliverable of this project is an indoor
video surveillance system that can protect privacy by modifying the appearance of selected subjects
(authorized personnel) in the video without any noticeable artifacts, and can simultaneously preserve the
original imagery in a completely secure manner so that the modification process, given proper authorization,
can be reversed. There are three main research objectives that we plan to address in the course of building
such a system. First, we will develop vision algorithms that can accurately detect, locate and segment moving
objects in video obtained from a large-scale surveillance network. Second, we will evaluate and develop video
modification algorithms that can erase or replace objects in video with scenes that are consistent with the rest
of the spatio-temporal space. Third, we will investigate the use of watermarking to securely embed the privacy
information directly into the surveillance video. Complementary to our technological development, our
collaborators at Morehead State University will lead a research study on the important constitutional and
federalism policy dimensions of privacy and the conduct of technology issues, as well as establish focus
groups and training sessions to evaluate the developed technologies for privacy protection.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/1/05 → 12/31/09 |
Funding
- Eastern Kentucky University: $694,613.00
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