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Human motion is a behavioral biometric trait that can be used to identify individuals and infer private attributes such as medical conditions. This poses a serious threat to privacy as motion extraction from video and motion capture are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Thorsten Strufe

Attribute-based methods, such as attribute-based access control and attribute-based encryption, make decisions based on attributes possessed by a subject rather than the subject's identity. While this allows for anonymous authorization --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Erin Lanus , Charles J. Colbourn , Gail-Joon Ahn

Person re-identification across different surveillance cameras with disjoint fields of view has become one of the most interesting and challenging subjects in the area of intelligent video surveillance. Although several methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Mohammad Ali Saghafi , Aini Hussain , Halimah Badioze Zaman , Mohamad Hanif Md Saad

Data protection algorithms are becoming increasingly important to support modern business needs for facilitating data sharing and data monetization. Anonymization is an important step before data sharing. Several organizations leverage on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Manish Kesarwani , Akshar Kaul , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos

Data privacy is one of the key challenges faced by enterprises today. Anonymization techniques address this problem by sanitizing sensitive data such that individual privacy is preserved while allowing enterprises to maintain and share…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-02-08 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Raj Acharya

This paper studies a novel privacy-preserving anonymization problem for pedestrian images, which preserves personal identity information (PII) for authorized models and prevents PII from being recognized by third parties. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Junwu Zhang , Mang Ye , Yao Yang

Data generalization is a powerful technique for sanitizing multi-attribute data for publication. In a multidimensional model, a subset of attributes called the quasi-identifiers (QI) are used to define the space and a generalization scheme…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Bijit Hore , Ravi Jammalamadaka , Sharad Mehrotra , Amedeo D'Ascanio

Group based anonymization is the most widely studied approach for privacy preserving data publishing. This includes k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness, to name a few. The goal of this paper is to raise a fundamental issue on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Philip S. Yu

Anonymization is a foundational principle of data privacy regulation, yet its practical application remains riddled with ambiguity and inconsistency. This paper introduces the concept of anonymity-washing -- the misrepresentation of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Szivia Lestyán , William Letrone , Ludovica Robustelli , Gergely Biczók

Removing personally identifiable information (PII) from texts is necessary to comply with various data protection regulations and to enable data sharing without compromising privacy. However, recent works show that documents sanitized by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sebastian Ochs , Ivan Habernal

Background knowledge is an important factor in privacy preserving data publishing. Distribution-based background knowledge is one of the well studied background knowledge. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Jian Pei , Philip S. Yu

Face anonymization aims to protect sensitive identity information by altering faces while preserving visual realism and utility for downstream computer vision tasks. Current methods struggle to simultaneously ensure high image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Pol Labarbarie , Vincent Itier , William Puech

The source code of a program not only defines its semantics but also contains subtle clues that can identify its author. Several studies have shown that these clues can be automatically extracted using machine learning and allow for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Micha Horlboge , Erwin Quiring , Roland Meyer , Konrad Rieck

Anonymized social network graphs published for academic or advertisement purposes are subject to de-anonymization attacks by leveraging side information in the form of a second, public social network graph correlated with the anonymized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Efe Onaran , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Not all people are equally easy to identify: color statistics might be enough for some cases while others might require careful reasoning about high- and low-level details. However, prevailing person re-identification(re-ID) methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yan Wang , Lequn Wang , Yurong You , Xu Zou , Vincent Chen , Serena Li , Gao Huang , Bharath Hariharan , Kilian Q. Weinberger

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

Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Matthew J. Schneider , James Bailie , Dawn Iacobucci

Privacy-seeking cryptocurrency users rely on anonymization techniques like CoinJoin and ring transactions. By using such technologies benign users potentially provide anonymity to bad actors. We propose overlay protocols to resolve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Patrik Keller , Martin Florian , Rainer Böhme

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

User-driven privacy allows individuals to control whether and at what granularity their data is shared, leading to datasets that mix original, generalized, and missing values within the same records and attributes. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Adrian Böttinger , Victor Christen , Anushka Vidanage , Peter Christen , Erhard Rahm