A method of highlighting an object of interest comprises providing a digital image, determining a region of interest in the digital image covering an object of interest in the digital image having a person identifier, masking all image data in the digital image in a surrounding area to the region of interest, within the detected region of interest, determining a region of exclusion covering an object of exclusion in the digital image having another person identifier, and forming an output image comprising image data from the digital image of the region of interest, wherein the region of exclusion thereof is masked, and comprising the masked image data of the surrounding area. A device for performing the method is also disclosed. The method may be performed on an image sequence, for example in the form of a surveillance video.