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Online Social Networks (OSNs) have come to play an increasingly important role in our social lives, and their inherent privacy problems have become a major concern for users. Can we assist consumers in their privacy decision-making…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Cailing Dong , Hongxia Jin , Bart P. Knijnenburg

Ensuring privacy of users of social networks is probably an unsolvable conundrum. At the same time, an informed use of the existing privacy options by the social network participants may alleviate - or even prevent - some of the more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Kambiz Ghazinour , Stan Matwin , Marina Sokolova

User privacy is a crucial concern in robotic applications, especially when mobile service robots are deployed in personal or sensitive environments. However, many robotic downstream tasks require the use of cameras, which may raise privacy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xuying Huang , Sicong Pan , Maren Bennewitz

While the rapid proliferation of wearable cameras has raised significant concerns about egocentric video privacy, prior work has largely overlooked the unique privacy threats posed to the camera wearer. This work investigates the core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yijiang Li , Genpei Zhang , Jiacheng Cheng , Yi Li , Xiaojun Shan , Dashan Gao , Jiancheng Lyu , Yuan Li , Ning Bi , Nuno Vasconcelos

As we shift more of our lives into the virtual domain, the volume of data shared on the web keeps increasing and presents a threat to our privacy. This works contributes to the understanding of privacy implications of such data sharing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Predicting and explaining the private information contained in an image in human-understandable terms is a complex and contextual task. This task is challenging even for large language models. To facilitate the understanding of privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Alina Elena Baia , Andrea Cavallaro

The rapid advancement of Visual Language Models (VLMs) has enabled sophisticated analysis of visual content, leading to concerns about the inference of sensitive user attributes and subsequent privacy risks. While technical capabilities of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuning Zhang , Gengrui Zhang , Yibo Meng , Ziyi Zhang , Hantao Zhao , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Personalizing image tags is a relatively new and growing area of research, and in order to advance this research community, we must review and challenge the de-facto standard of defining tag importance. We believe that for greater progress…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Amandianeze O. Nwana , Tshuan Chen

Inference of online social network users' attributes and interests has been an active research topic. Accurate identification of users' attributes and interests is crucial for improving the performance of personalization and recommender…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Quanzeng You , Sumit Bhatia , Jiebo Luo

Virtual reality (VR) platforms and apps collect user sensor data, including motion, facial, eye, and hand data, in abstracted form. These data may expose users to unique privacy risks without their knowledge or meaningful awareness, yet the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ismat Jarin , Olivia Figueira , Yu Duan , Tu Le , Athina Markopoulou

The excessive use of images in social networks, government databases, and industrial applications has posed great privacy risks and raised serious concerns from the public. Even though differential privacy (DP) is a widely accepted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hanyu Xue , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Li Song , Wanlei Zhou

Privacy is a complex, subjective and contextual concept that is difficult to define. Therefore, the annotation of images to train privacy classifiers is a challenging task. In this paper, we analyse privacy classification datasets and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Darya Baranouskaya , Andrea Cavallaro

As the privacy risks posed by camera surveillance and facial recognition have grown, so has the research into privacy preservation algorithms. Among these, visual privacy preservation algorithms attempt to impart bodily privacy to subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Sophie Noiret , Siddharth Ravi , Martin Kampel , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

Eliciting the preferences and needs of tourists is challenging, since people often have difficulties to explicitly express them, especially in the initial phase of travel planning. Recommender systems employed at the early stage of planning…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mete Sertkan , Julia Neidhardt , Hannes Werthner

Privacy and ethics of citizens are at the core of the concerns raised by our increasingly digital society. Profiling users is standard practice for software applications triggering the need for users, also enforced by laws, to properly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Davide Di Ruscio , Paola Inverardi , Patrizio Migliarini , Phuong T. Nguyen

Many users make quick decisions that affect their data privacy without due consideration of their values. One such decision is whether to download a smartphone app to their device. Previous work has suggested a relationship between values,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sarah E. Carter , Mathieu d'Aquin , Dayana Spagnuelo , Ilaria Tiddi , Kathryn Cormican , Heike Felzmann

Personal devices (e.g. laptops, tablets, and mobile phones) are conventional in daily life and have the ability to store users' private data. The security problems related to these appliances have become a primary concern for both users and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Le Ngu Nguyen , Stephan Sigg

In the realm of multimedia data analysis, the extensive use of image datasets has escalated concerns over privacy protection within such data. Current research predominantly focuses on privacy protection either in data sharing or upon the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Huaxi Huang , Xin Yuan , Qiyu Liao , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

It is difficult for individuals and organizations to protect personal information without a fundamental understanding of relative privacy risks. By analyzing over 5,000 empirical identity theft and fraud cases, this research identifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haoran Niu , K. Suzanne Barber

Digital identity is a multidimensional, multidisciplinary, and a complex concept. As a result, it is difficult to apprehend. Many contributions have proposed definitions and representations of digital identity. However, lots of them are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Ibou Sene