Researchers at IBM are trying to address privacy concerns about video surveillance systems, part of a broader effort by IBM to build a new business in the fast-growing surveillance market.
Concerns about security in cities, airports and other public places are causing a proliferation of video surveillance systems, but the increase has heightened concerns about privacy among regulators and the general public.
IBM hopes to alleviate the concerns with technology that can pick out faces in a video frame and automatically blur them, so that people’s images — and therefore their movements — are not recorded, said Joachim Stark, director of digital video surveillance with IBM’s global services group.
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