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Fine-grained disclosure control for app ecosystems

The modern computing landscape contains an increasing number of app ecosystems, where users store personal data on platforms such as Facebook or smartphones. APIs enable third-party applications (apps) to utilize that data. A key concern associated with ap ...

ACM Press2013

MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy Task: Warping-based Privacy Protection Tool

Touradj Ebrahimi

In this paper, we describe EPFL privacy protection tool submitted to the MediaEval 2013 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces and other personal items of people in the provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. ...

2013

MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy Task: Applying Transform-domain Scrambling to Automatically Detected Faces

Touradj Ebrahimi, Aleksei Triastcyn

In this paper, we describe our approach and discuss evaluation results for the MediaEval 2012 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces of people visible in provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. We also additio ...

2012

Distributed Authentication in Anonymous Mobile Communities

Hamza Harkous

With the recent boom in smartphones technology, online social networks are going mobile. This trend urged phone manufacturers and social networking companies to seek novel business strategies to monetize from these new "gateways" and to give the users ...

2012

Evaluating the Privacy Risk of Location-Based Services

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Reza Shokri

In modern mobile networks, users increasingly share their location with third-parties in return for location-based services. In this way, users obtain services customized to their location. Yet, such communications leak location information about users. Ev ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

Introducing Crossmodal Biometrics:Person Identification from Distinct Audio & Visual Streams

Sébastien Marcel, Anindya Roy

Person identification using audio or visual biometrics is a well-studied problem in pattern recognition. In this scenario, both training and testing are done on the same modalities. However, there can be situations where this condition is not valid, i.e. t ...

2010

Introducing Crossmodal Biometrics: Person Identification from Distinct Audio & Visual Streams

Sébastien Marcel, Anindya Roy

Idiap2010

Tracking Games in Mobile Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Users of mobile networks can change their identifiers in regions called mix zones in order to defeat the attempt of third parties to track their location. Mix zones must be deployed carefully in the network to reduce the cost they induce on mobile users an ...

Springer-Verlag New York Inc2010

System and Method for Measuring Performances of Surveillance Systems

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

A computer implemented method measures a performance of surveillance system. A site model, a sensor model and a traffic model are selected respectively from a set of site models, a set of sensor models, and a set of traffic models to form a surveillance mo ...

2008

Privacy Enabling Technology for Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Mourad Ouaret, Yousri Abdeljaoued

In this paper, we address the problem privacy in video surveillance. We propose an efficient solution based on transform-domain scrambling of regions of interest in a video sequence. More specifically, the sign of selected transform coefficients is flipped ...

IEEE2006

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