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The goal of homomorphic encryption is to encrypt data such that another party can operate on it without being explicitly exposed to the content of the original data. We introduce an idea for a privacy-preserving transformation on natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zhifeng Hu , Serhii Havrylov , Ivan Titov , Shay B. Cohen

In spite of the legal advances in personal data protection, the issue of private data being misused by unauthorized entities is still of utmost importance. To prevent this, Privacy by Design is often proposed as a solution for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Marcela Carvalho , Oussama Ennaffi , Sylvain Chateau , Samy Ait Bachir

Stable Diffusion has established itself as a foundation model in generative AI artistic applications, receiving widespread research and application. Some recent fine-tuning methods have made it feasible for individuals to implant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhengyue Zhao , Jinhao Duan , Kaidi Xu , Chenan Wang , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu

Lensless imaging protects visual privacy by capturing heavily blurred images that are imperceptible for humans to recognize the subject but contain enough information for machines to infer information. Unfortunately, protecting visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Thuong Nguyen Canh , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

How can we learn a representation with high predictive power while preserving user privacy? We present an adversarial representation learning method for sanitizing sensitive content from the learned representation. Specifically, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

Generative techniques for image anonymization have great potential to generate datasets that protect the privacy of those depicted in the images, while achieving high data fidelity and utility. Existing methods have focused extensively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Luca Piano , Pietro Basci , Fabrizio Lamberti , Lia Morra

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in rapid and high-fidelity personalization, even when provided with only a few user images. However, the effectiveness of personalization techniques has lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Naresh Kumar Devulapally , Shruti Agarwal , Tejas Gokhale , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

Modern applications significantly enhance user experience by adapting to each user's individual condition and/or preferences. While this adaptation can greatly improve a user's experience or be essential for the application to work, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Nazanin Takbiri , Amir Houmansadr , Dennis L. Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

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

Preserving privacy is a growing concern in our society where sensors and cameras are ubiquitous. In this work, for the first time, we propose a trainable image acquisition method that removes the sensitive identity revealing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yamin Sepehri , Pedram Pad , Pascal Frossard , L. Andrea Dunbar

In this work, we address the problem of text anonymization where the goal is to prevent adversaries from correctly inferring private attributes of the author, while keeping the text utility, i.e., meaning and semantics. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ahmed Frikha , Nassim Walha , Krishna Kanth Nakka , Ricardo Mendes , Xue Jiang , Xuebing Zhou

We consider the problem of privacy-preserving data release for a specific utility task under perfect obfuscation constraint. We establish the necessary and sufficient condition to extract features of the original data that carry as much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Behrooz Razeghi , Flavio. P. Calmon , Deniz Gunduz , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Because of the explosive growth of face photos as well as their widespread dissemination and easy accessibility in social media, the security and privacy of personal identity information becomes an unprecedented challenge. Meanwhile, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yunqian Wen , Li Song , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie

The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

The public sharing of user information opens the door for adversaries to infer private data, leading to privacy breaches and facilitating malicious activities. While numerous studies have concentrated on privacy leakage via public user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Cong Wang , Ziqi Yang , Chunping Wang , Keting Yin , Yang Yang

Data privacy is an increasingly important aspect of many real-world Data sources that contain sensitive information may have immense potential which could be unlocked using the right privacy enhancing transformations, but current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 John Martinsson , Edvin Listo Zec , Daniel Gillblad , Olof Mogren

Recent works in social network stream analysis show that a user's online persona attributes (e.g., gender, ethnicity, political interest, location, etc.) can be accurately inferred from the topics the user writes about or engages with.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Victor Zakhary , Ishani Gupta , Rey Tang , Amr El Abbadi

The exponential growth of collected, processed, and shared data has given rise to concerns about individuals' privacy. Consequently, various laws and regulations have been established to oversee how organizations handle and safeguard data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wenjun Lin , Jiahao Qian , Wenwen Liu , Lang Wu

Image data has been greatly produced by individuals and commercial vendors in the daily life, and it has been used across various domains, like advertising, medical and traffic analysis. Recently, image data also appears to be greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sen Wang , J. Morris Chang