SISSVid: Secure and Intelligent Storage System for Large-scale Visual Data Analytics

The ever increasing demand for video surveillance for security and video analytics has exponentially raised the magnitude of video data, resulting in substantial challenges in the storage and retrieval of needed information.

Moreover, because of escalating security threats to individuals' identities, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) focuses on ensuring lawful and transparent processing of human data by adopting Data Protection-by-Design (Article 25, 47) and data minimisation (Article 5).

The project ""SISSVid"" proposes a GDPR enabled solution considering both video storage and retrieval perspectives to ensure the safety of human recordings.

SISSVid includes the reversible anonymization of personal data for secure storage and retrieval by following the GDPR’s principle of data minimisation.

The project implementation will significantly improve the storage and post-event text-to-video retrieval of existing systems.

The project will focus on digital rights and human rights in the recorded closed circuit television (CCTV) data, with applications in sustainable cities and communities thus aligned with UN sustainable development goals (SDGs); SDG 9, SDG 11, and SGD 16.

This project is interdisciplinary and also multidisciplinary that includes artificial intelligence, image/video processing, security and privacy, and law (GDPR). Dr.

Mamoona Asghar (former MSCA Career-Fit research fellow) is an appropriate supervisor, as she possesses immense experience in the implementation of technological solutions for the privacy of visual data. Besides, the University of Galway places a strong focus on providing a supportive environment for researchers.

This project will advance the career of the fellow by providing multidisciplinary training and industry collaborations in Ireland.

Additionally, this project promotes the main objective of MSCA i.e. establishing a long-term collaboration network between the researcher and European institutions, bringing excellence together.