Privacy Protection in Surveillance Videos Using Block Scrambling-Based Encryption and DCNN-Based Face Detection

Surely surveillance cameras are certainly important in all aspects of life. We have become in an era where we need to use surveillance cameras everywhere, homes, schools, banks, hospitals, and companies, even in the general streets, to monitor everything that happens and follow the progress of those places with all safety by surveillance videos. However, the pervasiveness of surveillance cameras has become an issue for people’s privacy. This paper proposes a novel method for surveillance video privacy protection using block scrambling-based encryption and DCNN-based object detection. An object detection model based on DCNN You Only Look Once version 3 (YOLOv3) is used to detect the faces of the people. Then, the detected faces are scrambled using the fast block scrambling technique. Finally, the scrambled faces are encrypted using a secret key produced from a chaotic logistic map. The bounding boxes that output from the YOLOv3 are modified to include the entire edges of the detected faces to prevent any leaks of the sensitive regions. The simulation results and security analysis confirmed the proposed method’s effectiveness in protecting the surveillance videos’ privacy.