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Artificial intelligence for video surveillance

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Gem5-X : A Many-Core Heterogeneous Simulation Platform for Architectural Exploration and Optimization

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, William Andrew Simon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

The increasing adoption of smart systems in our daily life has led to the development of new applications with varying performance and energy constraints, and suitable computing architectures need to be developed for these new applications. In this paper, ...

2021

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

Privacy in Mini-drone Based Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi

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

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

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

Touradj Ebrahimi

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

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

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

2013

Event-Driven Video Coding for Outdoor Wireless Monitoring Cameras

Martin Vetterli, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, Zichong Chen

Reducing communication cost is crucial for outdoor wireless monitoring cameras which are constrained by limited energy budgets. From event detection point of view, traditional video coding schemes such as H.264 are inefficient as they ignore the "meaning" ...

2012

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

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

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

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

Pedestrian localization, tracking and behavior analysis from multiple cameras

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

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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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

Multi-view video segmentation and tracking for video surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Gelareh Mohammadi

Tracking moving objects is a critical step for smart video surveillance systems. Despite the complexity increase, multiple camera systems exhibit the undoubted advantages of covering wide areas and handling the occurrence of occlusions by exploiting the di ...

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

Graph-Based Approach for 3D Object Duplicate Detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Péter Vajda

In this paper, we consider the challenging problem of object duplicate detection and localization. Several applications require efficient object duplicate detection methods, such as automatic video and image tagging, video surveillance, and high level imag ...

2009