Replacing Humans With CGI Animations To Protect Anonymity In Video Footage (thestack.com) 44
An anonymous reader writes: New research (PDF) from the University of Zagreb proposes the de-identification of innocent individuals in closed circuit footage by replacing them with CGI animations which either guess their skeletal motion or impose the animation via Kinect-style movement sensors. In order to preserve the raw footage, the original frames are then re-encoded via steganographic techniques into the final amended output.
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From my understanding, it's relatively easy to identify a person by it's movements. Will this obfuscation prevent this?
[citation needed]
Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].
Ahhhhhhhhhh! (Score:1)
Now THAT explains Hillary...
blur (Score:4, Interesting)
How is this different than simply blurring out other than being more complicated?
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I can see this as less of trying to protect the identity of the person, but more to being about to make a 3d model of a crime scene.
If we can see where people are and their actions then put 3d models of them. Then we can take a look at the video at different angles and perspective.
When a video show a cop shooting an unarmed person. If we look at the events from the eyes of the cop, it may show the action from his point of view was more threatening, or we can look at it from the eyes of the person who got
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they already.
with all those test, would a "normal" person reasonably feel threatened in this situation?
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It's not about whether the person involved felt threatened; it's about whether an impartial observer agrees that it was reasonable for the person to have felt threatened.
At least, that's how it's supposed to be. When the person claiming self-defense is a police officer, all bets are off...
Thus (Score:2)
makeing the word safe for phototbombers everywhere.
just in time for halloween! (Score:2)
I can see a few novel ways to trick (as in trick-or-treat) people with this...
Walking with the Dead (Score:2)
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Product placement! (Score:1)
In other words, if you don't pay, all the signs and ads in our movie will say "Food" and "Beverage" and "Generic Service".
Protect? Preserve? (Score:1)
That means that only the select few "in control" have access to the original.
Sometimes I have the impression that "protection of my personal data" means quite different (opposite?) things to me and e.g. to Google (Facebook/Microsoft/whoever).
Given with whom politicians are in bed (e.g. EU's "European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society" spends eighty per cent of his time with industry lobby), I guess whose standpoint our "elected" hold.
Pitchforks? Guillotines?
You know fine well that an article would appear on (Score:1)
What's in it for the various CCTV operators? (Score:3)
Nice idea from academia but it seems like it's something that current operators of CCTV wouldn't use unless they were legally forced to.
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nah, if it's his property, or public property, he can take as many pictures of your business as he wants.
you only have an expectation of privacy on your own property.
Why are you so intent on filming... (Score:2)
...all those underage boys on the beach?
Other research includes (Score:3)
The effect of medicinal marijuana on the quality of research at the University of Zagreb's department of WTF.
Huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm confused. If you want to keep the original, why not just keep it somewhere else rather than jumping through hoops and potentially bringing its authenticity into question?
Who Decides? (Score:2)
Who decides if the animation is a cute, innocent looking being, or a deformed troll? Appearances matter in the court of public opinion.
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Ralph pls go.
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Ralph pls go.
You've totally lost me.
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You've totally lost me.
Deformed troll. [knowyourmeme.com]
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Your advertisers, of course. Just imagine the propaganda possibilities, not just by framing a single incident but by showing which classes of people exist, and how do they associate, at the background of every video.
The Youtube of tomorrow will sell advertising space not just before and between videos, but also in the censor bars.
Fraud? (Score:2)
"...the de-identification of innocent individuals" (Score:3)
"...the de-identification of innocent individuals"
So whoever is left is guilty, right? That'd be a convenient way for juries to decide things...
Protecting anonimity is one use for it. (Score:2)
Creating a false record of someone's presence is another way to use it.
Hmmmm.
Simpsons 3D (Score:2)
Somehow I was thinking of that episode of the Simpsons when Homer comes into our world.
What I thought I'd do was, pretend I was one... (Score:3)
Reminds me a lot of Ghost in the Shell, Standalone Complex. [youtube.com].
Ryan Fenton