Privacy-Protected Camera for the Sensing Web

  • Ikuhisa Mitsugami
  • Masayuki Mukunoki
  • Yasutomo Kawanishi
  • Hironori Hattori
  • Michihiko Minoh
Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 81)

Abstract

We propose a novel concept of a camera which outputs only privacy-protected information; this camera does not output captured images themselves but outputs images where all people are replaced by symbols. Since the people from this output images cannot be identified, the images can be opened to the Internet so that we could observe and utilize the images freely. In this paper, we discuss why the new concept of the camera is needed, and technical issues that are necessary for implementing it.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ikuhisa Mitsugami
    • 1
  • Masayuki Mukunoki
    • 2
  • Yasutomo Kawanishi
    • 2
  • Hironori Hattori
    • 2
  • Michihiko Minoh
    • 2
  1. 1.Osaka UniversityIbarakiJapan
  2. 2.Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan

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