Axis reveals the features of Live Privacy Shield in a webinar

During a webinar held by Axis, The company has released the main features of Live Privacy Shield, a solution that allows you to protect privacy in video surveillance.

Axis Communications has organized a webinar to publicize Live Privacy Shield, a solution with which it is possible to facilitate remote supervision of activities, while protecting privacy.

This perimeter based application, allows compatible cameras to dynamically mask moving objects, people or background, in real time, and both live and recorded video.

To know all the details of its operation, Roberto de los Santos, sales engineer, and Bruno Azula, key account manager of the company showed its uses and applications.

The new webinar carried out by Axis Communications puts the debate on privacy in video surveillance on the table, especially in public places. For this, Live Privacy Shield solution enables monitoring while protecting privacy, through a versatile edge-based application that dynamically masks in real time.

In this way, It is possible to mask moving objects and people or do it with the background of the images, helping to comply with privacy regulations, with the deletion of personal data.

During the online meeting, Three of the main use cases for Axis Live Privacy Shield were also highlighted.: monitoring of production processes, of people's activity complying with privacy requirements in public places, and be able to see people while maintaining the privacy of the image background. And for this this solution hardly needs sophisticated software that makes it more expensive., it is easy to use, flexible and very efficient.

Types of masking

Axis Communications experts have also analyzed the two most common types of masking in image processing: based on movement and Artificial Intelligence.

Motion-based masking is especially used when recording indoor scenes with good, stable lighting and where the background does not change frequently..

This is dynamic masking up to 30fps and it is possible to choose the mask, either transparent or solid color (color masking provides the greatest privacy protection and allows movements to be seen) or mosaic (in pixels and that shows moving objects or people in very low resolution and allows you to better distinguish shapes by seeing the colors of an object).

Tile masking is suitable for scenes with a lot of motion or to reduce the distractions of unnecessary masking with block size sliders.

Masking based on Artificial Intelligence, through which it is possible to mask human shapes or the background. It is dynamic at 10fps, advisable for recording short-range indoor and outdoor scenes and allows the use of mask and color.

It also stands out for being able to plan when the privacy application should be applied and removed.. For example, allows you to remove privacy after hours and on weekends and use another edge-based analytics application instead, como Axis Object Analytics. Planning can be done with video management software such as Axis Camera Station.

Axis experts have agreed by highlighting that the issue of privacy regarding video surveillance is undoubtedly a right of society., although security and protection are also necessary. Therefore it is not something that should be contradictory., It is only necessary to control and monitor the environment while respecting people's privacy and this increasingly through different video surveillance solutions., is it possible.