Future Directions in Privacy-Enhancing Video Surveillance

As today's video surveillance technology continues to get smarter exponentially, the debate on privacy versus security keeps on getting strong momentum with new questions coming up [6], [7]. The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 gave the United States Government the power to blur the line between privacy and security without any major pushback by the American public. In today's digital era of social media platforms and smartphones, as surveillance mechanisms keep on evolving with technological advances in computer vision, person re-identification (ReID) [2], [6] has emerged as a new threat to privacy in video surveillance. In a way, it challenges the Fourth Amendment in the American Constitution.