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Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)


Qibo Zhang and Daibo Liu, Hunan University; Xinyu Zhang, University of California San Diego; Zhichao Cao, Michigan State University; Fanzi Zeng, Hongbo Jiang, and Wenqiang Jin, Hunan University In this paper, we present ESauron — the first proof-of-concept system that can detect diverse forms of spy cameras (i.e., wireless, wired and offline devices) and quickly pinpoint their locations. The key observation is that, for all spy cameras, the captured raw images must be first digested (e.g., encoding and compression) in the video-capture devices before transferring to target receiver or storage medium.

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