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We propose a discrimination-aware learning method to improve both accuracy and fairness of biased face recognition algorithms. The most popular face recognition benchmarks assume a distribution of subjects without paying much attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Manuel Cebrian , Nick Obradovich , Iyad Rahwan

Deep neural networks are increasingly deployed for scene analytics, including to evaluate the attention and reaction of people exposed to out-of-home advertisements. However, the features extracted by a deep neural network that was trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Chau Yi Li , Andrea Cavallaro

This paper presents a client/server privacy-preserving network in the context of multicentric medical image analysis. Our approach is based on adversarial learning which encodes images to obfuscate the patient identity while preserving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Bach Ngoc Kim , Jose Dolz , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Christian Desrosiers

Federated learning (FL) has been widely studied recently due to its property to collaboratively train data from different devices without sharing the raw data. Nevertheless, recent studies show that an adversary can still be possible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Caridad Arroyo Arevalo , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-06 Niki Kilbertus , Adrià Gascón , Matt J. Kusner , Michael Veale , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adrian Weller

The integration of fairness and privacy in centralized data-driven applications is critical, especially as these systems increasingly influence sectors with significant societal impact. Current methods rarely address privacy, fairness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Imesh Ekanayake , Elham Naghizade , Jeffrey Chan

In recent years, the increasing availability of personal data has raised concerns regarding privacy and security. One of the critical processes to address these concerns is data anonymization, which aims to protect individual privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fabio Hellmann , Silvan Mertes , Mohamed Benouis , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Cristina Conati , Peter Krawitz , Elisabeth André

The increasing capabilities of deep neural networks for re-identification, combined with the rise in public surveillance in recent years, pose a substantial threat to individual privacy. Event cameras were initially considered as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Nicole Thiemer , Karen Joisten , Didier Stricker

Deep neural networks have become a primary tool for solving problems in many fields. They are also used for addressing information retrieval problems and show strong performance in several tasks. Training these models requires large,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mostafa Dehghani , Hosein Azarbonyad , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke

We propose an adversarial learning framework that deals with the privacy-utility tradeoff problem under two types of conditions: data-type ignorant, and data-type aware. Under data-type aware conditions, the privacy mechanism provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Bishwas Mandal , George Amariucai , Shuangqing Wei

This work addresses the problem of anonymizing the identity of faces in a dataset of images, such that the privacy of those depicted is not violated, while at the same time the dataset is useful for downstream task such as for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Simone Barattin , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Nicu Sebe

Sensitive attributes such as race are rarely available to learners in real world settings as their collection is often restricted by laws and regulations. We give a scheme that allows individuals to release their sensitive information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Hussein Mozannar , Mesrob I. Ohannessian , Nathan Srebro

We present a practical method for protecting data during the inference phase of deep learning based on bipartite topology threat modeling and an interactive adversarial deep network construction. We term this approach \emph{Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jianfeng Chi , Emmanuel Owusu , Xuwang Yin , Tong Yu , William Chan , Patrick Tague , Yuan Tian

A critical concern in data-driven processes is to build models whose outcomes do not discriminate against some demographic groups, including gender, ethnicity, or age. To ensure non-discrimination in learning tasks, knowledge of the group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Cuong Tran , Keyu Zhu , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Real-world data is usually segmented by attributes and distributed across different parties. Federated learning empowers collaborative training without exposing local data or models. As we demonstrate through designed attacks, even with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Shuang Zhang , Liyao Xiang , Xi Yu , Pengzhi Chu , Yingqi Chen , Chen Cen , Li Wang

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu

A critical concern in data-driven decision making is to build models whose outcomes do not discriminate against some demographic groups, including gender, ethnicity, or age. To ensure non-discrimination in learning tasks, knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Cuong Tran , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The task of privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) currently faces two major unsolved challenges: (1) existing methods are typically effective only on specific face recognition models and struggle to generalize to black-box face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuanwei Liu , Chengyu Jia , Ruqi Xiao , Xuemai Jia , Hui Wei , Kui Jiang , Zheng Wang

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

In this paper, we propose FairNN a neural network that performs joint feature representation and classification for fairness-aware learning. Our approach optimizes a multi-objective loss function in which (a) learns a fair representation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tongxin Hu , Vasileios Iosifidis , Wentong Liao , Hang Zhang , Michael YingYang , Eirini Ntoutsi , Bodo Rosenhahn