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DIGITAL CAMERA DETECTION AND DEACTIVATION USING IMAGE

PROCESSING
B.Sushma1, Fathima Tehseen2, R Rohini3, K Pavani4, A Naga Sai Ganesh5
1Asst.professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Potti Sriramulu Chalavadi
Mallikarjuna Rao College of Engineering and Technology, Vijayawada, India.
2,3,4,5Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Potti Sriramulu Chalavadi Mallikarjuna

Rao College of Engineering and Technology, Vijayawada, India.

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Abstract - The fundamental expectation of this project security of individuals to the privacy of people. So by
is to build up a framework that detects and deactivates considering all these threats and issues we have come up
digital cameras or hidden cameras in photography with a solution to detect and deactivate cameras at
restricted zones. The framework involves two segments. photography denied territories. On the other hand the
The principle area is camera locating segment during system should not cause any damage to the camera or
which focal point of the camera is detected using Image the user. The framework created identifies cameras in
Processing techniques and the second segment is the prohibited area and transmits solid confined light beam
camera deactivation segment which depends on Arduino. at each device to neutralize it. As we are utilizing
In this segment, Arduino directs the IR transmitter infrared beam for neutralizing computerized camera, it
towards the recognized camera and a solid infrared light is neither a health danger nor it will affect the detected
is anticipated into camera focal point in order to cameras operation. Luckily, most weapon systems have a
neutralize the images captured by the detected camera. typical feature of optical sight which resembles with
The infrared light projected is neither a health hazard nor camera lens, so identification of cameras or other optical
interfere in cameras operation. Both these units are in gadgets out of sight could assist military powers with
synchronization with one another. detecting a potential assault. The sooner a danger is
identified the better, and in this way a strategy that can
Keywords: Web cam, Personal Computer, Image identify a risk before being initiated is supported. so this
processing, Hough transform, IR transmitter, Matlab strategy likewise is valuable in defence areas to identify
software, Arduino, Power supply. possible attacks. The project is beneficial at places like
museums, historical monuments, changing rooms, public
1. INTRODUCTION rest rooms, theatres, shopping malls, jewellery shops,
courtrooms, defence areas and so forth.
Computerized cameras, smart phones with cameras and
hidden cameras are exceptionally basic nowadays. In
2. LITERATURE SURVEY:
spite of the fact that photography is denied at places A number of systems are already developed which uses
such as theatres, historical monuments, changing rooms, different techniques for anticipation of photography in
museums, courtrooms and so on user consistently disallowed territories. But most of the solutions are
attempt to capture images of the site secretly which isn’t complex, inefficient and they require some sort of
worthy. Movies as soon as they are released are instrumentation of the capture device.
recorded and put up for public use before the genuine
Arjan L.Mieremet [1] proposed a system “Modeling the
legitimate CDs are made accessible in the market. Film
detection of optical sights using retro-reflection”. In this
industry suffers heavy loss due to piracy at theatres. paper, it is descried that when light is projected on
There emerges a need to prevent this undesired optical sight, the radiation is gathered by the focal point
photography as to avoid this overwhelming misfortune. and sends back to its original source. This effect is
Hidden cameras at open spots are making a major issue known as cat’s eye effect and the property is known a
in keeping up secrecy of people. These cameras are very retro reflection property.
small which cannot be detected by naked eye and they
Vaishali kaul [2] published a paper “Hidden camera
are put up in changing rooms and shopping centers
detection” 2017. In this paper an application is
which represent a significant danger in maintaining
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introduced which examines magnetic activity in the cameras effectively without any delay; we removed
encompassing region. If any similarity to camera is servo mechanism which is the main cause for the delay
detected, a caution is raised for additional investigation. in reaching the detected cameras position.
But there is a need to have magnetic sensor in the phone
otherwise this app is not effective. 3. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Khai N.Truong [3] introduced a system “Preventing As to overcome the constraints of the existing
camera recording by designing a Capture Resistant framework, we propose a new strategy which can detect
Environment”. In this system IR transmitter scans the and deactivate camera easily. The innovation that is
environment with laser beam, and a solid retro-reflective being utilized in this topic is Image processing. A picture
signal is created by the optical sight or camera lens. Due can be defined as a two dimensional capacity f(x, y),
to retro reflection property, the focal point of the where x and y are special coordinates of the image and ‘f’
recognized camera seems as a splendid white round represents amplitude. Image processing refers to
sparkle through the hand cam. After detecting the processing of image, which means performing some
cameras, a projector is utilized which emanates localized operations on an image in order to extract some useful
light beam at each recognized camera lens. A portion of information from it. When digital computers are used to
constraints of these frameworks incorporate significant process the image then it is known as Digital Image
expenses because of utilization of projector, processing. The proposed system involves two sections,
progressively perplexing and not exceptionally effective. camera detection section and camera deactivation
section. Both sections should be in synchronization with
Jan Lukas [4] published paper “Digital camera each other as shown in the below figure.
identification from sensor pattern noise”. For each
camera under inspection, initially its reference pattern
noise is decided by averaging noise acquired by different Camera Camera
pictures using a denoising filter. detection deactivatio
section n section
Snehasis Mukharjee [5] proposed a system “Tracking
multiple circular ojects in video using Helmholtz
perception rule” 2019. In this paper an algorithm is
proposed which track different round articles present in The first section is camera recognition section in which
the video by segmenting the video into frames and camera focal point is detected by using distinct features
comparing objects in different frames. of camera in Image Processing. The second section is
deactivation section within which detected camera is
Virendra kumar yadav [6] published a paper “Approach neutralized by focusing solid IR rays into camera lens.
to accurate circle detection using circular Hough
transform and Local Maxima concept” 2017. One 3.1 Camera Detection Section: Our essential objective
incredible methodology for circle identification is the is to design a domain that prevents certain parts of the
Circular Hough transform and its variations. The space from being captured by mobile phones or digital
framework exhibits a calculation which depends on CHT cameras. The area which is to be protected from
and Local Maxima idea. capturing images or videos is under the surveillance of
web cam and it is known as capture-resistant
Ajun Venugopal [7] introduced a technique “Image environment.
processing technique for digital camera deactivation” in
May 2018. This framework uses the idea of servo (top view ) (Side view)
mechanism. Here Raspberry pi is interfaced with servo
motors. After recognition of camera focal point,
Raspberry pi will operate the servomechanism and the
system starts moving to the position of detected camera
and discharges solid IR beams through IR transmitter
into cameras lens which will reduce the quality of
captured image. Still there are confinements right now,
the framework is complex due to the presence of servo
mechanism and needs time to reach the detected area
which diminishes the effectiveness of this framework.

So as to overcome these constraints, we have proposed a From the above figure, the area which is indicated in
new framework which detects and deactivates digital blue color is protected area that is the area which is to be

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restricted from capturing images and the pink colored 5. FLOW CHART
surface is capture-resistant region. In camera detection
section, we cam is interfaced with personal computer.
Image processing techniques are utilized by considering Start
features like radius of lens, size, shape etc to detect
camera in capture-resistant region scanned by the web
cam.
Input from webcam to PC
3.2 Camera Deactivation Section: After locating a
camera in denied territories, the second step is to
neutralize the cameras detected in prohibited area.
Camera deactivation section is based on arduino. When Image acquisition in Matlab
camera focal point is recognized using image processing,
Arduino will switch on the IR transmitter and focus it
onto cameras lens. Due to overexposure of solid laser
Extraction of camera from images
light, the images captured by the detected device are
distorted and hence camera is deactivated.

4. BLOCK DIAGRAM Locate the position of camera

Web camera Power supply Send Control signal to arduino

Personal Switch on IR transmitter

Arduino
Computer

Focusing IR rays towards camera

Image
IR
Processing
transmitter
Techniques Distortion of images

The main phase of any vision framework is a picture

securing gadget. Web camera will be utilized as a picture Stop
obtaining gadget for surveillance in photography
disallowed zones. This web camera will be interfaced The first step of the process is interfacing webcam with
with PC by means of image acquisition tool kit in Matlab the computer. The area which is to be denied from
software. The acquired information will be as video. The photography is under the surveillance of webcam and
video will be separated into distinct frames for the video recorded by webcam is given as input to the
additional processing. After obtaining pictures from the matlab software. The first and foremost task in image
webcam position of lens can be detected by using processing is image acquisition which includes
Circular Hough Transform (CHT) algorithm which is segmentation of the images into frames. Code is written
utilized in extraction of features from an image. If image in matlab by utilizing Circular Hough Transform
processing software recognizes camera focal point then algorithm. Camera is extracted from the images by using
it creates a control signal and sends it to personal this code and the position of the camera is denoted by x
computer. The compute sends the coordinates of the and y coordinates. A control signal is sent by PC to
camera to arduino as to control the IR transmitter which arduino pointing the position of the detected camera.
plays a vital role in camera disabling section. IR Arduino switches on the IR transmitter and solid IR rays
transmitter projects solid rays onto the detected camera are focused onto the recognized camera. Due to
in order to neutralize it. overexposure of IR rays into camera focal point, the
images captured by the detected camera are distorted.

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Hence the detected camera is successfully deactivated operation. The project is beneficial at places like
and the process is completed. historical monuments, museums, changing rooms, public
rest rooms, court rooms, theatres, jewellery shops and
6. RESULT defence areas etc where maintaining secrecy is a big
At first code is written using image processing to detect issue.
the cameras in restricted areas and is represented with 8. REFERENCES
white circles. Lens of the detected camera is represented
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[4] Jan LukáˇS, Jessica Fridrich, member, IEEE, and

Miroslav Goljan , “Digital Camera Identification from
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[5] Snehasis Mukherjee and Dipti Prasad Mukherjee,

Fig1: locating lens of the detected camera “Tracking Multiple Circular Objects In Video Using
Helmholtz Principle”, 2009 Seventh International
After deactivation of the detected camera, the Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition.
overexposed image is shown below
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Fig2: Deactivation of camera

The above figure shows the image captured by the

detected camera in restricted area. This is due to
overexposure of IR rays on camera lens rendering the
image useless. Hence we can say that the detected
camera is successfully deactivated.

7. CONCLUSION
The principle goal of this paper is to develop a system
which is based on image processing and IR which can
detect and deactivate digital cameras in photography
denied territories without interfering in cameras

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