Smart TV face monitoring for children privacy

P. C. K. Hung
K. Kanev
S.-C. Huang
F. Iqbal
B. C. M. Fung

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Journal of Internet Technology

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

© 2018 Taiwan Academic Network Management Committee. All Rights Reserved. Many of the modern Television (TV) sets and digital TV set-top boxes are endowed with Smart TV capabilities. Those include computing and connectivity to online services such as video on demand, online games and even sports and healthcare. A lot of Smart TV devices also have built-in cameras, microphones and other sensors that provide for environmental monitoring and consequent context dependent feedback. Such Smart TV capabilities, however, can lead to privacy violations through unwanted tracking and user profiling by broadcasters and other service providers. There is a concern when underage users such as children who may not fully understand the concept of privacy are involved in using the Smart TV services. To address this issue, face recognition experiments were conducted with the IBM's Watson and the Microsoft's Face Application Programming Interface to reveal the potential of integrating facial recognition in future privacy aware Smart TV services.

ISSN

1607-9264

Publisher

Taiwan Academic Network Management Committee

Volume

19

Issue

5

First Page

1577

Last Page

1583

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Age estimation, Children protection, Digital imaging, Face recognition, Privacy, Smart TV

Scopus ID

85054978825

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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