Preserving privacy in surveillance

A system comprising:

• one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining an image of a scene captured by a camera;
• identifying an object in the image through object recognition;
• determining that the object is in front of a privacy region and not inside the privacy region;
• and
• in response to determining that the object is in front of the privacy region but not inside the privacy region, obfuscating, in the image, the privacy region and not the object.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining an image of a scene captured by a camera;
• identifying an object in the image through object recognition;
• determining that the object is in front of a privacy region and not inside the privacy region;
• and
• in response to determining that the object is in front of the privacy region but not inside the privacy region, obfuscating, in the image, the privacy region and not the object.