A Study on the Human Identification Technique for Privacy Protection in Intelligent Video Surveillance System

Recently as the incidences of terrorism and crime increase, the utilization of video surveillance system such as CCTV is increased. The increase of video surveillance system is useful in maintaining the safety of people's living and public order, however, the issue has been brought up about privacy invasion. For this, researches on the masking method to protect the privacy are being carried out. The masking method can protect privacy by eliminating the visual information but reduces the surveillance function. Therefore, the techniques that satisfy the human identification-based privacy protection and surveillance function at the same time have been researched. In this paper, the human identification method that is applicable to the existing privacy protection method and video surveillance system is explained.