ROI Encryption for the HEVC Coded Video Contents
Résumé
In this paper we investigate privacy protection for the HEVC
standard based on the tile concept. Tiles in HEVC enable to
split the video into independent rectangular regions. Two solutions
are proposed to encrypt the tiles containing the Region
Of Interest (ROI). The first solution performs encryption at
the bitstream level by encrypting all HEVC syntax elements
within the ROI tiles. The second solution enables a selective
encryption of the ROI tiles under constant bitrate and format
compliant requirements. To avoid temporal propagation
of the encryption outside the ROI boundaries, caused by inter
prediction, the Motion Vectors of no ROI regions are restricted
inside the no encrypted tiles in the reference frames.
Simulation results show that the proposed solutions perform
secured and adaptive encryption of ROI in the HEVC video.
Moreover, the bitrate overhead caused by the MVs restriction
window varies between 1%-2:5% depending on both the
video content and the number of tiles within the frame.