Scrambling for Video Surveillance with Privacy

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of scrambling regions of interest in a video sequence for the purpose of preserving privacy in video surveillance. We propose an efficient solution based on transform-domain scrambling. More specifically, the sign of selected transform coefficients is pseudo-randomly flipped during encoding. We address more specifically the two cases of MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG 2000. Simulation results show that the technique can be successfully applied to conceal information in regions of interest in the scene while providing with a good level of security. Furthermore, the scrambling is flexible and allows adjusting the amount of distortion introduced. Finally, this is achieved with a small impact on coding performance and negligible computational complexity increase.

Cite

Text

Dufaux and Ebrahimi. "Scrambling for Video Surveillance with Privacy." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2006. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2006.184

Markdown

[Dufaux and Ebrahimi. "Scrambling for Video Surveillance with Privacy." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2006.](https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2006/dufaux2006cvprw-scrambling/) doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2006.184

BibTeX

@inproceedings{dufaux2006cvprw-scrambling,
  title     = {{Scrambling for Video Surveillance with Privacy}},
  author    = {Dufaux, Frédéric and Ebrahimi, Touradj},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
  year      = {2006},
  pages     = {160},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPRW.2006.184},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2006/dufaux2006cvprw-scrambling/}
}