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Assignment Techniques for Crowdsourcing Sensitive Tasks

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Protecting the privacy of crowd workers has been an important topic in crowdsourcing, however, task privacy has largely been ignored despite the fact that many tasks, e.g., form digitization, live audio transcription or image tagging often contain sensitiv ...

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Impact of Mini-drone based Video Surveillance on Invasion of Privacy

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An increase in adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of daily lives, raises public concern about an intrusion into individual privacy. New sensing and surveillance technologies, such as mini-drones, threaten to eradicate boundaries of priv ...

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Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Secure JPEG

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Sharing photos online is a common activity on social networks and photo hosting platforms, such as Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or Flickr. However, after reports of citizens surveillance by governmental agencies and the scandalous leakage of celebrities ...

2015

Secure JPEG Scrambling enabling Privacy in Photo Sharing

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

With the popularization of online social networks (OSNs) and smart mobile devices, photo sharing is becoming a part of people’ daily life. An unprecedented number of photos are being uploaded and shared everyday through online social networks or photo host ...

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Using False Colors to Protect Visual Privacy of Sensitive Content

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Many privacy protection tools have been proposed for preserving privacy. Tools for protection of visual privacy available today lack either all or some of the important properties that are expected from such tools. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a si ...

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MediaEval 2015 Drone Protect Task: Privacy Protection in Surveillance Systems Using False Coloring

Touradj Ebrahimi

In this paper, we share our results for privacy protection using false coloring in surveillance systems in the Drone Protect Task. The aim is obscuring sensitive regions that are privacy related without sacrificing intelligibility and pleasantness. The ide ...

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Privacy in Mini-drone Based Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

Mini-drones are increasingly used in video surveillance. Their areal mobility and ability to carry video cameras provide new perspectives in visual surveillance which can impact privacy in ways that have not been considered in a typical surveillance scenar ...

2015

A new database of still and moving High Dynamic Range pictures

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek

Emerging new imaging technologies, such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) or UHD (Ultra High Definition), have a significant impact in various applications. One of them, namely, visual privacy protection in video surveillance is an important and increasingly pop ...

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Towards optimal distortion-based visual privacy filters

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The widespread usage of digital video surveillance systems has increased the concerns for privacy violation. Since video surveillance systems are invasive, it is a challenge to find an acceptable balance between privacy of the public under surveillance and ...

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Evaluation of privacy in high dynamic range video sequences

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Lin Yuan

The ability of high dynamic range (HDR) to capture details in environments with high contrast has a significant impact on privacy in video surveillance. However, the extent to which HDR imaging affects privacy, when compared to a typical low dynamic range ...

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