@conference{10902/13286, year = {2017}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13286}, abstract = {Surveillance is becoming more and more important in the recent years. In many cities, cameras have been set to look after parks, streets, roads, facilities and so on, however this fact is rising concerns about privacy. In this work, an alternative surveillance method which gather at once security and privacy has been propose and tested. Based on fiber optic specklegram technology; a system consisting of a fiber optic, a coherent light source and a photodetector has been placed under a carpet for detecting people walking over it and its accuracy, regarding measuring the steps, have been measured. Results suggest that using low exposed geometries along the carpet and basic processing methods, it is possible to detect with more than 95% of accuracy the number of steps done by the person walking over the carpet.}, organization = {This work has been supported by the projects TEC2013-47264-C2-1-R and TEC2016-76021-C2-2-R of the Spanish government and by a Parliament of Cantabria postdoc grant.}, publisher = {SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers}, publisher = {Proceedings of SPIE, 2017, 10323, 103236F}, publisher = {25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2017}, title = {Safe and private pedestrian detection by a low-cost fiber-optic specklegram}, author = {Rodríguez Cuevas, Alberto and Rodríguez Cobo, Luis and Lomer Barboza, Mauro Matías and López Higuera, José Miguel}, }