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State of the art in privacy preservation in video data
Active and Assisted Living (AAL) technologies and services are a possible solution to address the crucial challenges regarding health and social care resulting from demographic changes and current economic conditions. AAL systems aim to improve quality of life and support independent and healthy living of older and frail people. AAL monitoring systems are composed of networks of sensors (worn by the users or embedded in their environment) processing elements and actuators that analyse the environment and its occupants to extract knowledge and to detect events, such as anomalous behaviours, launch alarms to tele-care centres, or support activities of daily living, among others. Therefore, innovation in AAL can address healthcare and social demands while generating economic opportunities.
Recently, there has been far-reaching advancements in the development of video-based devices with improved processing capabilities, heightened quality, wireless data transfer, and increased interoperability with Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Computer vision gives the possibility to monitor an environment and report on visual information, which is commonly the most straightforward and human-like way of describing an event, a person, an object, interactions and actions. Therefore, cameras can offer more intelligent solutions for AAL but they may be considered intrusive by some end users.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes the obligation for technologies to meet the principles of data protection by design and by default. More specifically, Article 25 of the GDPR requires that organizations must "implement appropriate technical and organizational measures [...] which are designed to implement data protection principles [...] , in an effective manner and to integrate the necessary safeguards into [data] processing.” Thus, AAL solutions must consider privacy-by-design methodologies in order to protect the fundamental rights of those being monitored.
Different methods have been proposed in the latest years to preserve visual privacy for identity protection. However, in many AAL applications, where mostly only one person would be present (e.g. an older person living alone), user identification might not be an issue; concerns are more related to the disclosure of appearance (e.g. if the person is dressed/naked) and behaviour, what we called bodily privacy. Visual obfuscation techniques, such as image filters, facial de-identification, body abstraction, and gait anonymization, can be employed to protect privacy and agreed upon by the users ensuring they feel comfortable.
Moreover, it is difficult to ensure a high level of security and privacy during the transmission of video data. If data is transmitted over several network domains using different transmission technologies and protocols, and finally processed at a remote location and stored on a server in a data center, it becomes demanding to implement and guarantee the highest level of protection over the entire transmission and storage system and for the whole lifetime of the data. The development of video technologies, increase in data rates and processing speeds, wide use of the Internet and cloud computing as well as highly efficient video compression methods have made video encryption even more challenging. Consequently, efficient and robust encryption of multimedia data together with using efficient compression methods are important prerequisites in achieving secure and efficient video transmission and storage.This publication is based upon work from COST Action GoodBrother - Network on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living (CA19121), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
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Flexi-WVSNP-DASH: A Wireless Video Sensor Network Platform for the Internet of Things
abstract: Video capture, storage, and distribution in wireless video sensor networks
(WVSNs) critically depends on the resources of the nodes forming the sensor
networks. In the era of big data, Internet of Things (IoT), and distributed
demand and solutions, there is a need for multi-dimensional data to be part of
the Sensor Network data that is easily accessible and consumable by humanity as
well as machinery. Images and video are expected to become as ubiquitous as is
the scalar data in traditional sensor networks. The inception of video-streaming
over the Internet, heralded a relentless research for effective ways of
distributing video in a scalable and cost effective way. There has been novel
implementation attempts across several network layers. Due to the inherent
complications of backward compatibility and need for standardization across
network layers, there has been a refocused attention to address most of the
video distribution over the application layer. As a result, a few video
streaming solutions over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) have been
proposed. Most notable are Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and the Motion
Picture Experts Groups Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). These
frameworks, do not address the typical and future WVSN use cases. A highly
flexible Wireless Video Sensor Network Platform and compatible DASH (WVSNP-DASH)
are introduced. The platform's goal is to usher video as a data element that
can be integrated into traditional and non-Internet networks. A low cost,
scalable node is built from the ground up to be fully compatible with the
Internet of Things Machine to Machine (M2M) concept, as well as the ability to
be easily re-targeted to new applications in a short time. Flexi-WVSNP design
includes a multi-radio node, a middle-ware for sensor operation and
communication, a cross platform client facing data retriever/player framework,
scalable security as well as a cohesive but decoupled hardware and software
design.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 201
Compact recurrent neural networks for acoustic event detection on low-energy low-complexity platforms
Outdoor acoustic events detection is an exciting research field but
challenged by the need for complex algorithms and deep learning techniques,
typically requiring many computational, memory, and energy resources. This
challenge discourages IoT implementation, where an efficient use of resources
is required. However, current embedded technologies and microcontrollers have
increased their capabilities without penalizing energy efficiency. This paper
addresses the application of sound event detection at the edge, by optimizing
deep learning techniques on resource-constrained embedded platforms for the
IoT. The contribution is two-fold: firstly, a two-stage student-teacher
approach is presented to make state-of-the-art neural networks for sound event
detection fit on current microcontrollers; secondly, we test our approach on an
ARM Cortex M4, particularly focusing on issues related to 8-bits quantization.
Our embedded implementation can achieve 68% accuracy in recognition on
Urbansound8k, not far from state-of-the-art performance, with an inference time
of 125 ms for each second of the audio stream, and power consumption of 5.5 mW
in just 34.3 kB of RAM
DESIGN FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNET OF THINGS BASED NEXT GENERATION VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Modern artificial intelligence and machine learning opens up new era towards video
surveillance system. Next generation video surveillance in Internet of Things (IoT) environment is
an emerging research area because of high bandwidth, big-data generation, resource constraint
video surveillance node, high energy consumption for real time applications. In this thesis, various
opportunities and functional requirements that next generation video surveillance system should
achieve with the power of video analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning are
discussed. This thesis also proposes a new video surveillance system architecture introducing fog
computing towards IoT based system and contributes the facilities and benefits of proposed system
which can meet the forthcoming requirements of surveillance. Different challenges and issues
faced for video surveillance in IoT environment and evaluate fog-cloud integrated architecture to
penetrate and eliminate those issues.
The focus of this thesis is to evaluate the IoT based video surveillance system. To this end,
two case studies were performed to penetrate values towards energy and bandwidth efficient video
surveillance system. In one case study, an IoT-based power efficient color frame transmission and
generation algorithm for video surveillance application is presented. The conventional way is to
transmit all R, G and B components of all frames. Using proposed technique, instead of sending
all components, first one color frame is sent followed by a series of gray-scale frames. After a
certain number of gray-scale frames, another color frame is sent followed by the same number of
gray-scale frames. This process is repeated for video surveillance system. In the decoder, color
information is formulated from the color frame and then used to colorize the gray-scale frames. In
another case study, a bandwidth efficient and low complexity frame reproduction technique that is
also applicable in IoT based video surveillance application is presented. Using the second
technique, only the pixel intensity that differs heavily comparing to previous frame’s
corresponding pixel is sent. If the pixel intensity is similar or near similar comparing to the
previous frame, the information is not transferred. With this objective, the bit stream is created for
every frame with a predefined protocol. In cloud side, the frame information can be reproduced by
implementing the reverse protocol from the bit stream.
Experimental results of the two case studies show that the IoT-based proposed approach
gives better results than traditional techniques in terms of both energy efficiency and quality of the video, and therefore, can enable sensor nodes in IoT to perform more operations with energy
constraints
Deep Anomaly Detection for Time-series Data in Industrial IoT: A Communication-Efficient On-device Federated Learning Approach
Since edge device failures (i.e., anomalies) seriously affect the production
of industrial products in Industrial IoT (IIoT), accurately and timely
detecting anomalies is becoming increasingly important. Furthermore, data
collected by the edge device may contain the user's private data, which is
challenging the current detection approaches as user privacy is calling for the
public concern in recent years. With this focus, this paper proposes a new
communication-efficient on-device federated learning (FL)-based deep anomaly
detection framework for sensing time-series data in IIoT. Specifically, we
first introduce a FL framework to enable decentralized edge devices to
collaboratively train an anomaly detection model, which can improve its
generalization ability. Second, we propose an Attention Mechanism-based
Convolutional Neural Network-Long Short Term Memory (AMCNN-LSTM) model to
accurately detect anomalies. The AMCNN-LSTM model uses attention
mechanism-based CNN units to capture important fine-grained features, thereby
preventing memory loss and gradient dispersion problems. Furthermore, this
model retains the advantages of LSTM unit in predicting time series data.
Third, to adapt the proposed framework to the timeliness of industrial anomaly
detection, we propose a gradient compression mechanism based on Top-\textit{k}
selection to improve communication efficiency. Extensive experiment studies on
four real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework can accurately
and timely detect anomalies and also reduce the communication overhead by 50\%
compared to the federated learning framework that does not use a gradient
compression scheme.Comment: IEEE Internet of Things Journa
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