ECE Seminar: Bernhard Rinner

Berhard RinnerProfessor, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, AUSTRIADeputy head, Institute of Networked and Embedded SystemsFaculty host: Janusz KonradLight refreshments will be available at 1:45 pm.Title: Protecting Privacy in Visual DataAbstract:Installed on public places, integrated in cellphones or deployed in the Internet of Things – cameras have become ubiquitous, and they capture highly sensitive information about our everyday life. Advanced analytics and steadily increasing networking pose soaring risks to our privacy.In this talk I will give an overview of privacy challenges in visual data. I will then present selected key achievements from our ten years’ research in privacy-aware cameras. A key approach for privacy protection is to deteriorate the image quality of selected areas or entire frames. We have developed “cartooning” as an onboard protection method which requires low computational resources and keeps the utility of the protected video high. In another research thread we have investigated adaptive privacy filters which modify the strength of the deterioration based on the captured scenes. I will conclude the talk by demonstrating our TrustEYE, an embedded smart camera which performs onboard privacy filtering and secures all delivered data with dedicated hardware.Bio:Bernhard Rinner is professor at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria where he is heading the Pervasive Computing group. He is deputy head of the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems and served as vice dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences from 2008-2011. Before joining Klagenfurt he was with Graz University of Technology and held research positions at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and 1998/99. His current research interests include embedded computing, sensor networks and pervasive computing. Bernhard Rinner has been co-founder and general chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras and has served as chief editor of a special issue on this topic in The Proceedings of the IEEE. Currently, he is Associate Editor for Ad Hoc Networks Journal and EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. Together with partners from four European universities, he has jointly initiated the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program on Interactive and Cognitive Environments (ICE). He is member of IEEE and IFIP and member of the board of the Austrian Science Fund.http://www.bu.edu/eng/files/2017/07/Rinner-Low-Res-01-01.jpg

When 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Thursday, August 3, 2017
Location 8 St. Mary's St, Room 339