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• 1. [Article] Moving Towards Massively Scalable Video-Based Sensor Networks

  Networking and computing technologies are becoming advanced enough to enable a wealth of diverse applications that will drastically change our everyday lives. Some past examples of these developments include ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Moving Towards Massively Scalable Video-Based Sensor Networks Author: Feng, Wu-chi, Walpole, Jonathan, Pu, Calton, Feng, Wu-chang Year: 2001 Networking and computing technologies are becoming advanced enough to enable a wealth of diverse applications that will drastically change our everyday lives. Some past examples of these developments include the World Wide Web and wireless data networking infrastructures. As is quite obvious, the World Wide Web has enabled a fundamental change in the way many people deal with day-to-day tasks. Through the web, one can now make on-line reservations for travel, pay bills through on-line banking services, and view personalized on-line newscasts. More recently, developments in wireless technologies have enabled anywhere, anytime access to information over wireless medium. As wireless technologies such as 3G continue to advance, the ability to support larger bandwidth applications will become possible. Sensor networks are becoming a fairly hot area of research where the main focus is the development of networking technologies that support potentially thousands of sensors placed in a chosen environment [Estrin99]. Thus far, the sensors that have been described in the literature (and in some limited use) typically measure simple things such as humidity, temperature, or pressure. This results in a fairly limited amount of data generated, even over thousands of sensors. Now, if we look ten years into the future when video capture devices will most likely be small and inexpensive (with limited processing capabilities), the ability to create video-based sensor networks will be possible. Video-based sensor networks can be used for a great number of applications that would undoubtedly revolutionize the way we go about our day-to-day lives. Title: Moving Towards Massively Scalable Video-Based Sensor Networks Author: Feng, Wu-chi, Walpole, Jonathan, Pu, Calton, Feng, Wu-chang Year: 2001 Networking and computing technologies are becoming advanced enough to enable a wealth of diverse applications that will drastically change our everyday lives. Some past examples of these developments include the World Wide Web and wireless data networking infrastructures. As is quite obvious, the World Wide Web has enabled a fundamental change in the way many people deal with day-to-day tasks. Through the web, one can now make on-line reservations for travel, pay bills through on-line banking services, and view personalized on-line newscasts. More recently, developments in wireless technologies have enabled anywhere, anytime access to information over wireless medium. As wireless technologies such as 3G continue to advance, the ability to support larger bandwidth applications will become possible. Sensor networks are becoming a fairly hot area of research where the main focus is the development of networking technologies that support potentially thousands of sensors placed in a chosen environment [Estrin99]. Thus far, the sensors that have been described in the literature (and in some limited use) typically measure simple things such as humidity, temperature, or pressure. This results in a fairly limited amount of data generated, even over thousands of sensors. Now, if we look ten years into the future when video capture devices will most likely be small and inexpensive (with limited processing capabilities), the ability to create video-based sensor networks will be possible. Video-based sensor networks can be used for a great number of applications that would undoubtedly revolutionize the way we go about our day-to-day lives. Close

• 2. [Article] Thumbnail Preserving Encryption for JPEG

  With more and more data being stored in the cloud, securing multimedia data is becoming increasingly important. Use of existing encryption methods with cloud services is possible, but makes many web-based ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Thumbnail Preserving Encryption for JPEG Author: Wright, Charles V., Feng, Wu-chi Year: 2015 With more and more data being stored in the cloud, securing multimedia data is becoming increasingly important. Use of existing encryption methods with cloud services is possible, but makes many web-based applications difficult or impossible to use. In this paper, we propose a new image encryption scheme specially designed for protecting JPEG images in cloud photo storage services. Our technique allows efficient reconstruction of an accurate low-resolution thumbnail from the ciphertext image, but aims to prevent the extraction of any more detailed information. This will allow efficient storage and retrieval of image data in the cloud but protect its contents from outside hackers or snooping cloud administrators. Experiments of the proposed approach using an online selfie database show that it can achieve a good balance of privacy, utility, image quality, and file size. Title: Thumbnail Preserving Encryption for JPEG Author: Wright, Charles V., Feng, Wu-chi Year: 2015 With more and more data being stored in the cloud, securing multimedia data is becoming increasingly important. Use of existing encryption methods with cloud services is possible, but makes many web-based applications difficult or impossible to use. In this paper, we propose a new image encryption scheme specially designed for protecting JPEG images in cloud photo storage services. Our technique allows efficient reconstruction of an accurate low-resolution thumbnail from the ciphertext image, but aims to prevent the extraction of any more detailed information. This will allow efficient storage and retrieval of image data in the cloud but protect its contents from outside hackers or snooping cloud administrators. Experiments of the proposed approach using an online selfie database show that it can achieve a good balance of privacy, utility, image quality, and file size. Close