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Sensor-based interactive systems -- e.g., "smart" speakers, webcams, and RFID tags -- allow us to embed computational functionality into physical environments. They also expose users to real and perceived privacy risks: users know that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Youngwook Do , Yuxi Wu , Gregory D. Abowd , Sauvik Das

The paper studies how to release data about a critical infrastructure network (e.g., the power network or a transportation network) without disclosing sensitive information that can be exploited by malevolent agents, while preserving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Terrence W. K. Mak , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The widespread use of image acquisition technologies, along with advances in facial recognition, has raised serious privacy concerns. Face de-identification usually refers to the process of concealing or replacing personal identifiers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

A computer vision system using low-resolution image sensors can provide intelligent services (e.g., activity recognition) but preserve unnecessary visual privacy information from the hardware level. However, preserving visual privacy and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuntao Wang , Zirui Cheng , Xin Yi , Yan Kong , Xueyang Wang , Xuhai Xu , Yukang Yan , Chun Yu , Shwetak Patel , Yuanchun Shi

Images convey a broad spectrum of personal information. If such images are shared on social media platforms, this personal information is leaked which conflicts with the privacy of depicted persons. Therefore, we aim for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Privacy is a crucial concern in collaborative machine vision where a part of a Deep Neural network (DNN) model runs on the edge, and the rest is executed on the cloud. In such applications, the machine vision model does not need the exact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Bardia Azizian , Ivan V. Bajic

While large-scale face datasets have advanced deep learning-based face analysis, they also raise privacy concerns due to the sensitive personal information they contain. Recent schemes have implemented differential privacy to protect face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xiaoting Zhang , Tao Wang , Junhao Ji

Camera sensors are increasingly being combined with machine learning to perform various tasks such as intelligent surveillance. Due to its computational complexity, most of these machine learning algorithms are offloaded to the cloud for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Sander De Coninck , Wei-Cheng Wang , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

We present a novel privacy-preserving scheme for deep neural networks (DNNs) that enables us not to only apply images without visual information to DNNs for both training and testing but to also consider data augmentation in the encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Warit Sirichotedumrong , Takahiro Maekawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

In this study, we harness the information-theoretic Privacy Funnel (PF) model to develop a method for privacy-preserving representation learning using an end-to-end training framework. We rigorously address the trade-off between obfuscation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Behrooz Razeghi , Parsa Rahimi , Sébastien Marcel

Visual localization is the task of estimating the camera pose of an image relative to a scene representation. In practice, visual localization systems are often cloud-based. Naturally, this raises privacy concerns in terms of revealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Vojtech Panek , Patrik Beliansky , Zuzana Kukelova , Torsten Sattler

With rising technologies, the protection of privacy-sensitive information is becoming increasingly important. In industry and production facilities, image or video recordings are beneficial for documentation, tracing production errors or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Sabrina Cynthia Triess , Timo Leitritz , Christian Jauch

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) technology exacerbates privacy concerns in photo sharing. In response, the research community developed a suite of anti-FR methods to block identity extraction by unauthorized FR systems. Benefiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Xiangli Xiao , Kun Xu , Lin Yuan , Wenying Wen , Yuming Fang

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is the gold standard trust model for privacy-preserving machine learning by guaranteeing privacy at the data source. However, its application to image data has long been considered impractical due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuanming Cao , Chengqi Li , Wenbo He

As we shift more of our lives into the virtual domain, the volume of data shared on the web keeps increasing and presents a threat to our privacy. This works contributes to the understanding of privacy implications of such data sharing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information about the scene or subjects, e.g., by reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mihai Dusmanu , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

The ability to estimate the perceptual error between images is an important problem in computer vision with many applications. Although it has been studied extensively, however, no method currently exists that can robustly predict visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Ekta Prashnani , Hong Cai , Yasamin Mostofi , Pradeep Sen

As network data has become increasingly prevalent, a substantial amount of attention has been paid to the privacy issue in publishing network data. One of the critical challenges for data publishers is to preserve the topological structures…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-24 Yaoming Zhen , Shirong Xu , Junhui Wang

As more and more personal photos are shared online, being able to obfuscate identities in such photos is becoming a necessity for privacy protection. People have largely resorted to blacking out or blurring head regions, but they result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qianru Sun , Liqian Ma , Seong Joon Oh , Luc Van Gool , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…