Controlled Intentional Degradation in Analytical Video Systems

Summary: Degradation-accuracy profiling to control privacy-aware video analytics, balancing accuracy and policy goals. Smokescreen prototype with limited-data curve estimation and profile repair; achieves tighter error bounds and more accurate tradeoffs across datasets, models, and queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6352
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.3558097e-05
Overall Rank: 9,301 | 35.36%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3517899

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Authors

1. Wenjia He
2. Michael Cafarella

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,382	EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions	2023	VLDB	4.5263687e-05
8,646	Optimizing Video Selection LIMIT Queries With Commonsense Knowledge	2024	VLDB	4.4720866e-05
9,787	The Image Calculator: 10x Faster Image-AI Inference by Replacing JPEG with Self-designing Storage Format	2024	SIGMOD	4.2799988e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010813443
126	Space-Efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00044753012
274	Approximate Medians and other Quantiles in One Pass and with Limited Memory	1998	SIGMOD	0.00029383266
317	NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale	2017	VLDB	0.0002798145
446	Random Sampling Techniques for Space Efficient Online Computation of Order Statistics of Large Datasets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023002059
567	Practical Privacy: The SuLQ Framework	2005	PODS	0.00019940193
692	Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of a Database Server	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018045529
694	BlazeIt: Optimizing Declarative Aggregation and Limit Queries for Neural Network-Based Video Analytics	2020	VLDB	0.00018031141
1,390	MIRIS: Fast Object Track Queries in Video	2020	SIGMOD	0.00012242018
1,561	Power-Conserving Computation of Order-Statistics over Sensor Networks	2004	PODS	0.00011349345
1,574	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011289028
1,867	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010264932
2,424	The Analytical Bootstrap: a New Method for Fast Error Estimation in Approximate Query Processing	2014	SIGMOD	8.8415494e-05
2,954	Moment-Based Quantile Sketches for Efficient High Cardinality Aggregation Queries	2018	VLDB	7.8218804e-05
3,103	Publishing Set-Valued Data via Differential Privacy	2011	VLDB	7.5578714e-05
4,909	A Method for Optimizing Opaque Filter Queries	2020	SIGMOD	5.8354189e-05
6,100	Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud	2013	VLDB	5.2064148e-05

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