Visual data, such as images, videos, and 3D models, have a significant impact on our daily lives. It is increasingly captured for purposes such as safety, tracking movements, monitoring activities, diagnosing diseases, and behaviour prediction in smart systems (homes, healthcare, transportation, etc.). From casual snapshots to complex satellite images, visual information can reveal personal or sensitive information, including facial recognition, license plates, address/locations of landmarks, disease type, and sensitive documents, which can be exploited by malicious actors. Furthermore, the increasing sophistication of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based recognition technologies raises privacy concerns. Conventional automated intelligent systems do not promise privacy or personal data security. Visual data protection requires a multifaceted approach involving technological solutions, strong legal frameworks, ethical practices, transparency, accountability, and individual awareness. Therefore, privacy protection, along with secured data retention and delivery is the biggest challenge in the design and deployment of intelligent and reliable visual analytics systems.
SPETVid workshop aims to connect visual data security and privacy, exploring advanced cryptographic methods, visual obfuscation, PETs, anonymization, pseudonymization, privacy-preserving analysis, machine learning, blockchain, data minimization, summarization, synthetic/generative data, and emerging technologies that will shape visual data privacy and security.
SPETViD workshop bridges academia, practitioners, law enforcement, and industry for secure and privacy-preserving visual data research. It seeks theoretical, conceptual, and experimental contributions to visual data security and privacy, enabling participants to exchange and discuss the latest findings and solutions.