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Title Vr-Surv: A Vr-Based Privacy Preserving Surveillance System
ID_Doc 61378
Authors Doula A.; Sanchez Guinea A.; Mühlhäuser M.
Year 2022
Published Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519645
Abstract The recent advances in smart city infrastructure have provided support for a higher adoption of surveillance cameras as a mainstream crime prevention measure. However, a consequent massive deployment raises concerns about privacy issues among citizens. In this paper, we present VR-Surv, a VR-based privacy aware surveillance system for large scale urban environments. Our concept is based on conveying the semantics of the scene uniquely, without revealing the identity of the individuals or the contextual details that might violate the privacy of the entities present in the surveillance area. For this, we create a virtual replica of the areas of interest, in real-time, through the combination of procedurally generated environments and markerless motion capture models. The results of our preliminary evaluation revealed that our system successfully conceals privacy-sensitive data, while preserving the semantics of the scene. Furthermore, participants in our user study expressed higher acceptance to being surveilled through the proposed system. © 2022 ACM.
Author Keywords Motion Capture; Privacy; Procedural Generation; Surveillance; Urban Environment; Virtual Reality


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