Smart Camera for home security
Overview
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) has developed a customized deep neural network (DNN) accelerator for privacy and security protection to be embedded in smart camera.
Research completion
2022
Commercialisation opportunities
IP licensing - Technology co-development
Problem addressed
Most cameras record video without filter, it causes privacy concern from the public. Furthermore, those records contain enormous raw data which is hard to use in smart city applications. ASTRI has developed a customized DNN accelerator to be embedded in smart cameras for smart city applications that contains face detection and object recognition with privay protection by blurring the face.
Innovation
- DNN algorithm for privacy protection;
- Face detection for detecting the person with the privacy protection;
- Object recognition for detecting the object with auto face blurring for privacy proection.
Key impact
- Reduced the risk of illegal tracking;
- Protected personal image by blurring the face;
- Reduced workload for object detection;
- Faster image processing for the privacy protection.
Application
- Smart camera for smart city
- Security camera
- Smart home camera
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.
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