Method and apparatus for image display using privacy masking

Abstract

The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for displaying an image based on privacy masking, which belong to the field of video monitoring. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-masked original image provided by an image capture terminal and privacy masking area information of the original image; wherein, the privacy masking area information is obtained by identifying the original image or is obtained from the image capture terminal and indicates an area in the original image which is required to be masked; determining whether the original image is required to be privacy-masked based on whether privacy unmasking permission information is stored; if the original image is required to be privacy-masked, performing privacy-masking on the original image based on the privacy masking area information to obtain a masked image, and displaying the masked image. In this way, the image capture terminal is only required to provide an original image without providing the original image and the masked image, so the costs of both storage and transmission are low, saving the storage resources and network resources of the image capture terminal.

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