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Catch Me If You Can Designing a Disobedient Object to Protest Against GSM Surveillance

In this article, I discuss the process of designing an object to protest against a specific surveillance device: the IMSI catcher, a controversial object used to monitor GSM networks. Being widely used in protests, I develop a tactical approach based on ob ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Flying in Private Mode: Understanding and Improving the Privacy ICAO Address Program

Guillaume Michel Le Bars

Location privacy of aircraft has recently gained attention as air traffic management was modernized using novel surveillance technologies. Business aviation circles and various military and government entities voiced serious concerns about automated and ub ...

AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS2021

WatchNet: Efficient and Depth-based Network for People Detection in Video Surveillance Systems

Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Michael Villamizar

We propose a deep-learning approach for people detection on depth imagery. The approach is designed to be deployed as an autonomous appliance for identifying people attacks and intrusion in video surveillance scenarios. To this end, we propose a fully-conv ...

IEEE2018

Multilinear Low-Rank Tensors on Graphs & Applications

Pierre Vandergheynst, Nauman Shahid, Francesco Grassi

We propose a new framework for the analysis of low- rank tensors which lies at the intersection of spectral graph theory and signal processing. As a first step, we present a new graph based low-rank decomposition which approximates the classical low-rank S ...

2016

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

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

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 ...

2015

Quality Evaluation of HEVC and VP9 Video Compression in Real-Time Applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart, Martin Rerabek

Video consumption over Internet has increased significantly over the recent years and occupies the majority of the overall data traffic. To decrease the load on the Internet infrastructure and reduce bandwidth taken by video, higher efficiency video codecs ...

2015

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

Towards optimal distortion-based visual privacy filters

Touradj Ebrahimi

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 ...

2014

MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy Task: Geometrical Privacy Protection Tool

Touradj Ebrahimi

This paper describes EPFL privacy protection tool for the MediaEval 2014 Visual Privacy task. The goal of the task is to obscure faces, body silhouettes, and personal items of people in the provided surveillance clips to preserve their personal privacy. Th ...

2014

Using Warping for Privacy Protection in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi

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

2013

Using Face Morphing to Protect Privacy

Touradj Ebrahimi

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

2013

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

Evaluation of Visual privacy Filters Impact on Video Surveillance Intelligibility

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone

Since privacy issues are becoming important with growth of the video surveillance, many tools are proposed for protection of personal privacy in the video. However, little is understood regarding the effectiveness of such tools and their effect on the unde ...

2012

Subjective Study of Privacy Filters in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone

Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. Therefore, to address privacy issues, many tools have been proposed for protection of perso ...

Ieee2012

Sequential Topic Models for Mining Recurrent Activities and their Relationships : Application to long term video recordings

Jagannadan Varadarajan

In this thesis, we address the analysis of activities from long term data logs with an emphasis on video recordings. Starting from simple words from video, we progressively build methods to infer higher level scene semantics. The main strategies used to ac ...

EPFL2012

Crowdsourcing Approach for Evaluation of Privacy Filters in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi

Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. To address these concerns, many tools have been proposed for protection of personal privacy ...

2012

A Framework for the Validation of Privacy Protection Solutions in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux

The issue of privacy protection in video surveillance has drawn a lot of interest lately. However, thorough performance analysis and validation is still lacking, especially regarding the fulfillment of privacy-related requirements. In this paper, we put fo ...

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Pedestrian localization, tracking and behavior analysis from multiple cameras

Jérôme Berclaz

Video surveillance is currently undergoing a rapid growth. However, while thousands of cameras are being installed in public places all over the world, computer programs that could reliably detect and track people in order to analyze their behavior are not ...

EPFL2010

Towards Generic Detection of Unusual Events in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Ivan Ivanov

In this paper, we consider the challenging problem of unusual event detection in video surveillance systems. The proposed approach makes a step toward generic and automatic detection of unusual events in terms of velocity and acceleration. At first, the mo ...

2009

Analysis of the Limits of Graph-Based Object Duplicate Detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lutz Goldmann, Péter Vajda

In this paper, we consider the evaluation of graph-based object duplicate detection. Several applications require accurate and efficient object duplicate detection methods, such as automatic video and image tag propagation, video surveillance, and high lev ...

2009