Title
Automating visual privacy protection using a smart LED
Abstract
The ubiquity of mobile camera devices has been triggering an outcry of privacy concerns, whereas existing privacy protection solutions still rely on the cooperation of the photographer or camera hardware, which can hardly be enforced in practice. In this paper, we introduce LiShield, which automatically protects a physical scene against photographing, by illuminating it with smart LEDs flickering in specialized waveforms. We use a model-driven approach to optimize the waveform design, so as to ensure protection against the (uncontrollable) cameras and potential image-processing-based attacks. We have also designed mechanisms to unblock authorized cameras and enable graceful degradation under strong ambient light interference. Our prototype implementation and experiments show that LiShield can effectively destroy unauthorized capturing while maintaining robustness against potential attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3375571
MobiCom '17: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Snowbird Utah USA October, 2017
Field
DocType
Volume
Programming language,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Visual privacy
Journal
63
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
2
0001-0782
978-1-4503-4916-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
47
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shilin Zhu1133.28
Chi Zhang280.81
Xinyu Zhang3134378.62