Security for Video Surveillance with Privacy

In this paper, a video surveillance system is designed to provide means for ensuring privacy information security and offer the capability of proving authenticity. First, a real-time scrambling approach to conceal video information is presented. The sign of transform coefficients for intra macro- block is pseudo-randomly flipped, and so only the authorized persons are allowed to correctly decode the code-stream. At the same time, a method for embedding digital watermark into videos is proposed. The relationship among the DC components in several successive frames is used for hiding data. Simulation results based on MPEG-4 show that a good level of security is provided by the end-to-end security scheme. Furthermore, this is achieved with a small impact on coding performance and computation complexity.