Not really. Having a device send video frames to the cloud basically kills the deal for me. If you did something to the video first... maybe. Let's say you train a model to process video. You come up with a network where the first few layers are fixed and they perform a non-reversible transform of the video into some sort of symbolic representation. I might sign up for that. I want to know that my video/audio feed isn't being used by a 3rd party, and that it isn't being used by you for something other than the intended purpose(i.e. to model my behavior to sell me things, to create profiles of my activity, etc). I understand that my first proposal doesn't actually address all of those concerns, but I am willing to trade privacy for convenience to a very limited degree.
I'm basically working on something like this for myself. I have a Nvidia Jetson Nano that I'm trying to train to tell me when my garage door is open without my wife or I present, when my laundry is done, and whether or not the lights are on.
That is pretty interesting but non-trivial. We'll have to think about it. Thanks for the suggestion. I should mention our business model is not based on monetizing users data.
I'm interested to know more about your personal project. Feel free to shoot me an email if you are interested in having offline discussions and bouncing ideas off each other: rafiee at visualone dot tech
Just because that’s your model today, that doesn’t mean you won’t get bought by another company whose sole purpose is to use all assets for gathering as much private data as possible and using it for their own purposes.
If you want to sell to people who actually care about privacy, then you have to build your systems so that it is impossible to abuse them or use them in any other way. Or, at the very least, it is extremely difficult to abuse them.
I'm basically working on something like this for myself. I have a Nvidia Jetson Nano that I'm trying to train to tell me when my garage door is open without my wife or I present, when my laundry is done, and whether or not the lights are on.