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This article presents an overview of image transformation with a secret key and its applications. Image transformation with a secret key enables us not only to protect visual information on plain images but also to embed unique features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hitoshi Kiya , AprilPyone MaungMaung , Yuma Kinoshita , Shoko Imaizumi , Sayaka Shiota

A privacy-preserving clothing classification scheme is presented to enable secure occupant-centric control (OCC) systems. Although the utilization of camera images for HVAC control has been widely studied to optimize thermal comfort,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tatsuya Chuman , Yousuke Udagawa , Hitoshi Kiya

This paper proposes a novel privacy-preserving semantic segmentation method that can use independent keys for each client and image. In the proposed method, the model creator and each client encrypt images using locally generated keys, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mare Hirose , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

Image compression is a widely used technique to reduce the spatial redundancy in images. Recently, learning based image compression has achieved significant progress by using the powerful representation ability from neural networks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Jiaheng Liu , Guo Lu , Zhihao Hu , Dong Xu

Privacy-preserving inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using homomorphic encryption has emerged as a promising approach for enabling secure machine learning in untrusted environments. In our previous work, we introduced a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 John Chiang

With the increasing demands for privacy protection, many privacy-preserving machine learning systems were proposed in recent years. However, most of them cannot be put into production due to their slow training and inference speed caused by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Fei Zheng

Cloud computing services provide a scalable solution for the storage and processing of images and multimedia files. However, concerns about privacy risks prevent users from sharing their personal images with third-party services. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 M. Tarek Ibn Ziad , Amr Alanwar , Moustafa Alzantot , Mani Srivastava

In this paper, we propose a novel generative model-based attack on learnable image encryption methods proposed for privacy-preserving deep learning. Various learnable encryption methods have been studied to protect the sensitive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Hitoshi Kiya

In this paper, we propose an attack method to block scrambled face images, particularly Encryption-then-Compression (EtC) applied images by utilizing the existing powerful StyleGAN encoder and decoder for the first time. Instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Hitoshi Kiya

Over the past few years, a tremendous growth of machine learning was brought about by a significant increase in adoption and implementation of cloud-based services. As a result, various solutions have been proposed in which the machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and deep learning, medical image analysis has become a critical tool in modern healthcare, significantly improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. However, AI-based methods also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yanming Zhu , Xuefei Yin , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Hui Tian

The use of Machine Learning (ML) for data-driven decision-making often relies on access to sensitive datasets, which introduces privacy challenges. Traditional encryption methods protect data at rest or in transit but fail to secure it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Alexandre Marques , Beatriz Sá , Rui Botelho , Pedro Pinto

As machine learning becomes a practice and commodity, numerous cloud-based services and frameworks are provided to help customers develop and deploy machine learning applications. While it is prevalent to outsource model training and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Tianwei Zhang , Zecheng He , Ruby B. Lee

We demonstrate that modern image recognition methods based on artificial neural networks can recover hidden information from images protected by various forms of obfuscation. The obfuscation techniques considered in this paper are mosaicing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Richard McPherson , Reza Shokri , Vitaly Shmatikov

Preserving the privacy and security of big data in the context of cloud computing, while maintaining a certain level of efficiency of its processing remains to be a subject, open for improvement. One of the most popular applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Ş. S. Mağara , C. Yıldırım , F. Yaman , B. Dilekoğlu , F. R. Tutaş , E. Öztürk , K. Kaya , Ö. Taştan , E. Savaş

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving image classification method using encrypted images under the use of the ConvMixer structure. Block-wise scrambled images, which are robust enough against various attacks, have been used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Zheng Qi , AprilPyone MaungMaung , Hitoshi Kiya

We present a framework to learn privacy-preserving encodings of images that inhibit inference of chosen private attributes, while allowing recovery of other desirable information. Rather than simply inhibiting a given fixed pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Francesco Pittaluga , Sanjeev J. Koppal , Ayan Chakrabarti

Machine learning on encrypted data has received a lot of attention thanks to recent breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation. It allows outsourcing computation to untrusted servers without sacrificing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Theo Ryffel , Edouard Dufour-Sans , Romain Gay , Francis Bach , David Pointcheval

Semantic communication is implemented based on shared background knowledge, but the sharing mechanism risks privacy leakage. In this letter, we propose an encrypted semantic communication system (ESCS) for privacy preserving, which combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Feng Yang

We consider the problem of maintaining sparsity in private distributed storage of confidential machine learning data. In many applications, e.g., face recognition, the data used in machine learning algorithms is represented by sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Marvin Xhemrishi , Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar