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Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement $\epsilon$ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Katrina Ligett , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Bo Waggoner , Z. Steven Wu

With the emergence of smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as deep learning technologies have witnessed an increasing adoption. To support the requirements of such paradigm in terms of memory and computation, joint and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi , Mohsen Guizani

For a better understanding of anonymization methods for location traces, we have designed and held a location trace anonymization contest that deals with a long trace (400 events per user) and fine-grained locations (1024 regions). In our…

Public key searchable encryption (PKSE) scheme allows data users to search over encrypted data. To identify illegal users, many traceable PKSE schemes have been proposed. However, existing schemes cannot trace the keywords which illegal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yue Han , Jinguang Han , Weizhi Meng , Jianchang Lai , Ge Wu

The rapid advancement of generative AI systems has collapsed the credibility landscape for photographic evidence. Modern image generation models produce photorealistic images undermining the evidentiary foundation upon which journalism and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Sam Ryan

The technology of differential privacy, adding a noise drawn from the Laplace distribution, successfully overcomes a difficulty of keeping both the privacy of individual data and the utility of the statistical result simultaneously.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Zijian Zhang , Zhan Qin , Liehuang Zhu , Wei Jiang , Chen Xu , and Kui Ren

Cellular providers and data aggregating companies crowdsource celluar signal strength measurements from user devices to generate signal maps, which can be used to improve network performance. Recognizing that this data collection may be at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Jiang Zhang , Lillian Clark , Matthew Clark , Konstantinos Psounis , Peter Kairouz

With the latest developments in technology, extra and extra human beings depend on their private gadgets to keep their touchy information. Concurrently, the surroundings in which these gadgets are linked have grown to grow to be greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rushit Dave

Behavioral biometrics based on smartphone motion sensors are growing in popularity for authentication purposes. In this study, AirSignatureDB is presented: a new publicly accessible dataset of in-air signatures collected from 108…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Marta Robledo-Moreno , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Javier Ortega-Garcia , Andres Huergo , Julian Fierrez

Speech emotion recognition is an important component of any human centered system. But speech characteristics produced and perceived by a person can be influenced by a multitude of reasons, both desirable such as emotion, and undesirable…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mimansa Jaiswal , Emily Mower Provost

Sufficiently strong security and privacy mechanisms are prerequisite to amass the promising benefits of the IoT technology and to incorporate this technology into our daily lives. This paper introduces a novel approach to privacy in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Zygmunt J. Haas , Ashkan Yousefpour

As we await a vaccine, social-distancing via efficient contact tracing has emerged as the primary health strategy to dampen the spread of COVID-19. To enable efficient digital contact tracing, we present a novel system to estimate pair-wise…

Data containing personal information is increasingly used to train, fine-tune, or query Large Language Models (LLMs). Text is typically scrubbed of identifying information prior to use, often with tools such as Microsoft's Presidio or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nataša Krčo , Zexi Yao , Matthieu Meeus , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Large fingerprint datasets, while important for training and evaluation, are time-consuming and expensive to collect and require strict privacy measures. Researchers are exploring the use of synthetic fingerprint data to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Syed Konain Abbas , Sandip Purnapatra , M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Conor Miller-Lynch , Lambert Igene , Soumyabrata Dey , Stephanie Schuckers , Faraz Hussain

The proliferation of online biometric authentication has necessitated security requirements of biometric templates. The existing secure biometric authentication schemes feature a server-centric model, where a service provider maintains a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Kai Zhou , Jian Ren

In the past, two main approaches for the purpose of authentication, including information-theoretic authentication codes and complexity-theoretic message authentication codes (MACs), were almost independently developed. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Xiaofu Wu , Zhen Yang , Cong Ling , Xiang-Gen Xia

As acquiring reliable ground-truth labels is usually costly, or infeasible, crowdsourcing and aggregation of noisy human annotations is the typical resort. Aggregating subjective labels, though, may amplify individual biases, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gabriel Singer , Samuel Gruffaz , Olivier Vo Van , Nicolas Vayatis , Argyris Kalogeratos

Speech separation is very important in real-world applications such as human-machine interaction, hearing aids devices, and automatic meeting transcription. In recent years, a significant improvement occurred towards the solution based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Rawad Melhem , Assef Jafar , Oumayma Al Dakkak

In a decentralized Internet of Things (IoT) network, a fusion center receives information from multiple sensors to infer a public hypothesis of interest. To prevent the fusion center from abusing the sensor information, each sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Meng Sun , Wee Peng Tay

Physical retailers, who once led the way in tracking with loyalty cards and `reverse appends', now lag behind online competitors. Yet we might be seeing these tables turn, as many increasingly deploy technologies ranging from simple sensors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vasilios Mavroudis , Michael Veale