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A Virtual Simulation-Pilot Agent for Training of Air Traffic Controllers

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In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine receives spoken ...

MDPI2023

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This thesis assesses the surveillance operated on the mobile phone network by governmental actors (intelligence agencies, police, army) and the relationship between monitored spaces and their users. Indeed, some new surveillance devices used by intelligenc ...

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

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

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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 ...

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UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning

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Situational awareness by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is important for many applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response. In those applications, detecting and locating people and recognizing their actions in near real-time ...

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

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Near-Infrared High-Resolution Real-Time Omnidirectional Imaging Platform for Drone Detection

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Recent technological advancements in hardware systems have made higher quality cameras. State of the art panoramic systems use them to produce videos with a resolution of 9000 x 2400 pixels at a rate of 30 frames per second (fps).(1) Many modern applicatio ...

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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

Graph-Based Distributed Control for Adaptive Multi-Robot Patrolling through Local Formation Transformation

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Ieee2016

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

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 ...

2015

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 ...

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

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

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