Video Surveillance started decades ago to remotely monitor specific areas and allow control from human inspectors. Later, Computer Vision gradually replaced human monitoring, firstly through motion alerts and now with Deep Learning techniques. From the beginning of this journey, people have worried about the risk of privacy violations. This article surveys the main steps of Computer Vision in Video Surveillance, from early approaches for people detection and tracking to action analysis and language description, outlining the most relevant directions on the topic to deal with privacy concerns. We show how the relationship between Video Surveillance and privacy is a biased paradox since surveillance provides increased safety but does not necessarily require the people identification. Through experiments on action recognition and natural language description, we showcase that the paradox of surveillance and privacy can be solved by Artificial Intelligence and that the respect of human rights is not an impossible chimera.

Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox? / Cucchiara, Rita; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Sarto, Sara. - In: COMPUTER. - ISSN 0018-9162. - 57:3(2024), pp. 91-100. [10.1109/MC.2023.3316696]

Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox?

Cucchiara, Rita;Baraldi, Lorenzo;Cornia, Marcella;Sarto, Sara
2024

Abstract

Video Surveillance started decades ago to remotely monitor specific areas and allow control from human inspectors. Later, Computer Vision gradually replaced human monitoring, firstly through motion alerts and now with Deep Learning techniques. From the beginning of this journey, people have worried about the risk of privacy violations. This article surveys the main steps of Computer Vision in Video Surveillance, from early approaches for people detection and tracking to action analysis and language description, outlining the most relevant directions on the topic to deal with privacy concerns. We show how the relationship between Video Surveillance and privacy is a biased paradox since surveillance provides increased safety but does not necessarily require the people identification. Through experiments on action recognition and natural language description, we showcase that the paradox of surveillance and privacy can be solved by Artificial Intelligence and that the respect of human rights is not an impossible chimera.
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Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox? / Cucchiara, Rita; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Sarto, Sara. - In: COMPUTER. - ISSN 0018-9162. - 57:3(2024), pp. 91-100. [10.1109/MC.2023.3316696]
Cucchiara, Rita; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Sarto, Sara
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