Person de-identification in videos

  • Authors:
  • Prachi Agrawal;P. J. Narayanan

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Visual Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad, India;Center for Visual Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • ACCV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Advances in cameras and web technology have made it easy to capture and share large amounts of video data over to a large number of people through services like Google Street View, EveryScape, etc A large number of cameras oversee public and semi-public spaces today These raise concerns on the unintentional and unwarranted invasion of the privacy of individuals caught in the videos To address these concerns, automated methods to de-identify individuals in these videos are necessary De-identification does not aim at destroying all information involving the individuals Its goals are to obscure the identity of the actor without obscuring the action This paper outlines the scenarios in which de-identification is required and the issues brought out by those We also present a preliminary approach to de-identify individuals from videos A bounding box around each individual present in a video is tracked through the video An outline of the individuals is approximated by carrying out segmentation on a 3-D Graph of space-time voxels We explore two de-identification transformations: exponential space-time blur and line integral convolution We show results on a number of public videos and videos collected in a plausible setting We also present the preliminary results of a user-study to validate the effectiveness of the de-identification schemes.