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Collecting and labeling real datasets to train the person search networks not only requires a lot of time and effort, but also accompanies privacy issues. The weakly-supervised and unsupervised domain adaptation methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Minyoung Oh , Duhyun Kim , Jae-Young Sim

Differential Privacy (DP) is often presented as a strong privacy-enhancing technology with broad applicability and advocated as a de-facto standard for releasing aggregate statistics on sensitive data. However, in many embodiments, DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ari Biswas , Graham Cormode

The availability of large amounts of informative data is crucial for successful machine learning. However, in domains with sensitive information, the release of high-utility data which protects the privacy of individuals has proven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tamas Madl , Weijie Xu , Olivia Choudhury , Matthew Howard

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. There is a large body of work that examines anonymization vulnerabilities. Focusing on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Paul Francis , David Wagner

The collection and use of personal data are becoming more common in today's data-driven culture. While there are many advantages to this, including better decision-making and service delivery, it also poses significant ethical issues around…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Constantinos Patsakis , Nikolaos Lykousas

We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images while retaining the original data distribution. We ensure total anonymization of all faces in an image by generating images exclusively on privacy-safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Håkon Hukkelås , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

The paper redefines econometric identification under formal privacy constraints, particularly differential privacy (DP). Traditionally, econometrics focuses on point or partial identification, aiming to recover parameters precisely or…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-11-06 Tatiana Komarova , Denis Nekipelov

The explosion in volume and variety of data offers enormous potential for research and commercial use. Increased availability of personal data is of particular interest in enabling highly customised services tuned to individual needs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos , Stefano Braghin , Pól Mac Aonghusa

Data obfuscation deals with the problem of masking a data-set in such a way that the utility of the data is maximized while minimizing the risk of the disclosure of sensitive information. To protect data we address some ways that may as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Saswata Naha , Sayantan Roy , Arkaprava Sanki , Diptanil Santra

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

The protection of personal data has become a central topic in software development, especially with the implementation of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-25 André Menolli , Luiz Fernando Nunes , Thiago A. Coleti

Statistical methods protecting sensitive information or the identity of the data owner have become critical to ensure privacy of individuals as well as of organizations. This paper investigates anonymization methods based on representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Clément Feutry , Pablo Piantanida , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre Duhamel

Anonymization techniques based on obfuscating the quasi-identifiers by means of value generalization hierarchies are widely used to achieve preset levels of privacy. To prevent different types of attacks against database privacy it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

Protecting the privacy of data-sets has become hugely important these days. Many real-life data-sets like income data, medical data need to be secured before making it public. However, security comes at the cost of losing some useful…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-16 Debolina Ghatak , Bimak K Roy

It is important to study the risks of publishing privacy-sensitive data. Even if sensitive identities (e.g., name, social security number) were removed and advanced data perturbation techniques were applied, several de-anonymization attacks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Wei-Han Lee , Changchang Liu , Shouling Ji , Prateek Mittal , Ruby Lee

Anonymity of both natural and legal persons in court rulings is a critical aspect of privacy protection in the European Union and Switzerland. With the advent of LLMs, concerns about large-scale re-identification of anonymized persons are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alex Nyffenegger , Matthias Stürmer , Joel Niklaus

Formal disclosure avoidance techniques are necessary to ensure that published data can not be used to identify information about individuals. The addition of statistical noise to unpublished data can be implemented to achieve differential…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Ryan Janicki , Scott H. Holan , Kyle M. Irimata , James Livsey , Andrew Raim

The performance of modern machine learning systems depends on access to large, high-quality datasets, often sourced from user-generated content or proprietary, domain-specific corpora. However, these rich datasets inherently contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhan Shi , Yefeng Yuan , Yuhong Liu , Liang Cheng , Yi Fang

Failure data collected from the field (e.g., failure traces, bug reports, and memory dumps) represent an invaluable source of information for developers who need to reproduce and analyze failures. Unfortunately, field data may include…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Elena Masserini , Davide Ginelli , Daniela Micucci , Daniela Briola , Leonardo Mariani

As the U.S. Census Bureau implements its controversial new disclosure avoidance system, researchers and policymakers debate the necessity of new privacy protections for public statistics. With experiments on both public statistics and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ryan Steed , Diana Qing , Zhiwei Steven Wu