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Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a distinct threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work demonstrates that models produced by these algorithms may leak specific private information in the training data to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Samuel Yeom , Irene Giacomelli , Matt Fredrikson , Somesh Jha

There is a growing privacy concern due to the popularity of social media and surveillance systems, along with advances in face recognition software. However, established image obfuscation techniques are either vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tao Li , Min Soo Choi

As the privacy risks posed by camera surveillance and facial recognition have grown, so has the research into privacy preservation algorithms. Among these, visual privacy preservation algorithms attempt to impart bodily privacy to subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Sophie Noiret , Siddharth Ravi , Martin Kampel , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

A key promise of machine learning is the ability to assist users with personal tasks. Because the personal context required to make accurate predictions is often sensitive, we require systems that protect privacy. A gold standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Simran Arora , Christopher Ré

A key concern for AI safety remains understudied in the machine learning (ML) literature: how can we ensure users of ML models do not leverage predictions on incorrect personal data to harm others? This is particularly pertinent given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Muhammad H. Ashiq , Peter Triantafillou , Hung Yun Tseng , Grigoris G. Chrysos

With the growing adoption of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), training or fine-tuning models on private datasets has become increasingly prevalent. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hong Guan , Lei Yu , Lixi Zhou , Li Xiong , Kanchan Chowdhury , Lulu Xie , Xusheng Xiao , Jia Zou

Obfuscating a dataset by adding random noises to protect the privacy of sensitive samples in the training dataset is crucial to prevent data leakage to untrusted parties for edge applications. We conduct comprehensive experiments to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Guangsheng Yu , Xu Wang , Ping Yu , Caijun Sun , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often produce visible artifacts compromising user experience. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Deep learning (DL)-based solutions have been extensively researched in the medical domain in recent years, enhancing the efficacy of diagnosis, planning, and treatment. Since the usage of health-related data is strictly regulated,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Andreea Bianca Popescu , Cosmin Ioan Nita , Ioana Antonia Taca , Anamaria Vizitiu , Lucian Mihai Itu

For privacy concerns to be addressed adequately in current machine learning systems, the knowledge gap between the machine learning and privacy communities must be bridged. This article aims to provide an introduction to the intersection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Mohammad Al-Rubaie , J. Morris Chang

The use of personal data for training machine learning systems comes with a privacy threat and measuring the level of privacy of a model is one of the major challenges in machine learning today. Identifying training data based on a trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ganesh Del Grosso , Hamid Jalalzai , Georg Pichler , Catuscia Palamidessi , Pablo Piantanida

While being deployed in many critical applications as core components, machine learning (ML) models are vulnerable to various security and privacy attacks. One major privacy attack in this domain is membership inference, where an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yang Zou , Zhikun Zhang , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Privacy preservation is a crucial component of any real-world application. But, in applications relying on machine learning backends, privacy is challenging because models often capture more than what the model was initially trained for,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mimansa Jaiswal , Emily Mower Provost

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in automating various medical imaging tasks, which could soon become routine in clinical practice for disease diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning, and post-treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Nikolas Koutsoubis , Asim Waqas , Yasin Yilmaz , Ravi P. Ramachandran , Matthew Schabath , Ghulam Rasool

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) based on cryptographic protocols has emerged as a promising paradigm to protect user data privacy in cloud-based machine learning services. While it achieves formal privacy protection, PPML often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenxuan Zeng , Tianshi Xu , Yi Chen , Yifan Zhou , Mingzhe Zhang , Jin Tan , Cheng Hong , Meng Li

We consider the problem of obfuscating sensitive information while preserving utility, and we propose a machine learning approach inspired by the generative adversarial networks paradigm. The idea is to set up two nets: the generator, that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Marco Romanelli , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, finding applications across various domains. However, their reliance on massive internet-sourced datasets for training brings notable privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Michele Miranda , Elena Sofia Ruzzetti , Andrea Santilli , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto , Sébastien Bratières , Emanuele Rodolà

Ensuring the privacy of training data is a growing concern since many machine learning models are trained on confidential and potentially sensitive data. Much attention has been devoted to methods for protecting individual privacy during…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Wanrong Zhang , Olga Ohrimenko , Rachel Cummings

As the demand for privacy in visual data management grows, safeguarding sensitive information has become a critical challenge. This paper addresses the need for privacy-preserving solutions in large-scale visual data processing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pedro Santos , Tânia Carvalho , Filipe Magalhães , Luís Antunes