Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Reversible and Secure False Color Based Image Privacy Protection with Color Palette Generation

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Reversible and Secure False Color Based Image Privacy Protection with Color Palette Generation"
by Pavithra T.P. and Rajasree R.
in 2018 International CET Conference on Control, Communication, and Computing (IC4), July 2018, pp.341-345

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

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"A Reliable and Reversible Image Privacy Protection Based on False Colors"
by Serdar Ciftci, Ahmet Oguz Akyuz, and Touradj Ebrahimi
in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, July 2017, pp.68-81


In many areas, visual privacy needs the protection, especially in video surveillance. Video surveillance is considered as an important solution for the security and safety issues in public places, since it monitors behaviour, activities, or other changing information. Its usage is increased in today's world which affects individual's privacy. There comes the need of visual privacy protection in video surveillance. Local servers can not store and analyze this large amount of data from the surveillance camera. So usage of cloud servers can solve this problem. But there is a chance to acquire these data by unauthorized parties. Different schemes for data hiding are present, which reversibly encrypts this data. But such systems need to do the detection of sensitive regions either by using a computer vision module or manually which increases complexity and reduces reliability. So two fully reversible privacy protection schemes for images using false coloring can be used. First scheme is more generic i.e., it is flexible with other privacy protection schemes and the next scheme is fully based on false colors. These schemes are independent of region-of-interest (ROI) detection and can be applied to the whole image. So the user can escape from the complex ROI detection. A color palette generation method is also added with these schemes which increases the security.