Webcast: Surveillance Privacy Protection

Society’s need for greater surveillance at home and work is increasing, but without compromising the right to privacy. Computer scientist Samson Cheung of the University of Kentucky [Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments] creates programs that can manipulate video surveillance all the way down to the pixel level. For example, an individual in a video can be erased, with that image then embedded into a secure watermark. If the complete video is needed for legal purposes, the stream can be recreated.

The lecture was recorded in late June 2006 and runs about 30 minutes.

Source: ResearchChannel.org

See Also: Databases That Learn (via Technology Review)

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