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We present new auditors to assess Differential Privacy (DP) of an algorithm based on output samples. Such empirical auditors are common to check for algorithmic correctness and implementation bugs. Most existing auditors are batch-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tim Kutta , Martin Dunsche , Yu Wei , Vassilis Zikas

Federated video action recognition enables collaborative model training without sharing raw video data, yet remains vulnerable to two key challenges: \textit{model exposure} and \textit{communication overhead}. Gradients exchanged between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Idris Zakariyya , Pai Chet Ng , Kaushik Bhargav Sivangi , S. Mohammad Sheikholeslami , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Fani Deligianni

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

With the growing volume of data in society, the need for privacy protection in data analysis also rises. In particular, private selection tasks, wherein the most important information is retrieved under differential privacy are emphasized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Akito Yamamoto , Tetsuo Shibuya

Many critical applications rely on cameras to capture video footage for analytical purposes. This has led to concerns about these cameras accidentally capturing more information than is necessary. In this paper, we propose a deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Gautham Ramajayam , Tao Sun , Chiu C. Tan , Lannan Luo , Haibin Ling

The increasing demand for large-scale visual data, coupled with strict privacy regulations, has driven research into anonymization methods that hide personal identities without seriously degrading data quality. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Parameter estimation in statistics and system identification relies on data that may contain sensitive information. To protect this sensitive information, the notion of \emph{differential privacy} (DP) has been proposed, which enforces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan , Cristian R. Rojas

Differential privacy (DP) auditing is essential for evaluating privacy guarantees in machine learning systems. Existing auditing methods, however, pose a significant challenge for large-scale systems since they require modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Iden Kalemaj , Luca Melis , Maxime Boucher , Ilya Mironov , Saeed Mahloujifar

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

In the Open Data approach, governments and other public organisations want to share their datasets with the public, for accountability and to support participation. Data must be opened in such a way that individual privacy is safeguarded.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Haochen Tong , Boris Škorić

Many video classification applications require access to personal data, thereby posing an invasive security risk to the users' privacy. We propose a privacy-preserving implementation of single-frame method based video classification with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Sikha Pentyala , Rafael Dowsley , Martine De Cock

Differential privacy is a rigorous definition for privacy that guarantees that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this work, we develop new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Vassilis Digalakis , George N. Karystinos , Minos N. Garofalakis

In response to calls for open data and growing privacy threats, organizations are increasingly adopting privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy (DP) that inject statistical noise when generating published datasets. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Harold Triedman , Jayshree Sarathy , Priyanka Nanayakkara , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Sean Kross , Elissa M. Redmiles

This paper addresses the challenge of balancing learner data privacy with the use of data in learning analytics (LA) by proposing a novel framework by applying Differential Privacy (DP). The need for more robust privacy protection keeps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qinyi Liu , Ronas Shakya , Mohammad Khalil , Jelena Jovanovic

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art definition for privacy, guaranteeing that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this thesis, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Vassilis Digalakis

The surge in multimodal AI's success has sparked concerns over data privacy in vision-and-language tasks. While CLIP has revolutionized multimodal learning through joint training on images and text, its potential to unintentionally disclose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Alyssa Huang , Peihan Liu , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Wanrong Zhang

With eye tracking being increasingly integrated into virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) head-mounted displays, preserving users' privacy is an ever more important, yet under-explored, topic in the eye tracking community. We report a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Julian Steil , Inken Hagestedt , Michael Xuelin Huang , Andreas Bulling

Data holders are increasingly seeking to protect their user's privacy, whilst still maximizing their ability to produce machine models with high quality predictions. In this work, we empirically evaluate various implementations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Nicolas Kourtellis