On-Device Generative AI for GDPR-Compliant Visual Monitoring: Natural Language Alerts from Local Object Detection

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Autori principali: Schappacher-Tilp, Gudrun, Kaehling, Nicoletta, Kornberger, Jan, Teiniker, Egon
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author Schappacher-Tilp, Gudrun
Kaehling, Nicoletta
Kornberger, Jan
Teiniker, Egon
author_facet Schappacher-Tilp, Gudrun
Kaehling, Nicoletta
Kornberger, Jan
Teiniker, Egon
contents Visual monitoring systems that rely on cloud-based AI inference expose raw image data to external services, creating fundamental tensions with the data-minimisation principle of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This paper presents a proof-of-concept privacy-by-design pipeline that resolves this tension by confining all inference entirely to the edge device. A YOLOv5n-seg model compiled for a Hailo-8L AI accelerator delivers real-time object detection on a Raspberry Pi 5, from which raw pixel buffers are immediately discarded after inference. A stateful trigger engine forwards minimal JSON event payloads to a locally hosted instance of Phi-3 Mini (3.8B parameters, Q4_0 quantisation), which synthesises one-to-two sentence natural-language alerts for a human operator. No image data crosses the network boundary at any point; only the generated text alert is transmitted. We describe the full system architecture and implementation, report measured inference latency and resource utilisation on the target hardware, and present representative generated alerts. The results demonstrate that combining a dedicated neural-network accelerator with an on-device large language model on a single-board computer is not only feasible but produces practically deployable, human-readable monitoring output while aligning with GDPR Art. 5(1)(c) by design.
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spellingShingle On-Device Generative AI for GDPR-Compliant Visual Monitoring: Natural Language Alerts from Local Object Detection
Schappacher-Tilp, Gudrun
Kaehling, Nicoletta
Kornberger, Jan
Teiniker, Egon
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
68T45, 68T50
I.4.7; I.2.7; K.4.1
Visual monitoring systems that rely on cloud-based AI inference expose raw image data to external services, creating fundamental tensions with the data-minimisation principle of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This paper presents a proof-of-concept privacy-by-design pipeline that resolves this tension by confining all inference entirely to the edge device. A YOLOv5n-seg model compiled for a Hailo-8L AI accelerator delivers real-time object detection on a Raspberry Pi 5, from which raw pixel buffers are immediately discarded after inference. A stateful trigger engine forwards minimal JSON event payloads to a locally hosted instance of Phi-3 Mini (3.8B parameters, Q4_0 quantisation), which synthesises one-to-two sentence natural-language alerts for a human operator. No image data crosses the network boundary at any point; only the generated text alert is transmitted. We describe the full system architecture and implementation, report measured inference latency and resource utilisation on the target hardware, and present representative generated alerts. The results demonstrate that combining a dedicated neural-network accelerator with an on-device large language model on a single-board computer is not only feasible but produces practically deployable, human-readable monitoring output while aligning with GDPR Art. 5(1)(c) by design.
title On-Device Generative AI for GDPR-Compliant Visual Monitoring: Natural Language Alerts from Local Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
68T45, 68T50
I.4.7; I.2.7; K.4.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30544