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Anonymization is a foundational principle of data privacy regulation, yet its practical application remains riddled with ambiguity and inconsistency. This paper introduces the concept of anonymity-washing -- the misrepresentation of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Szivia Lestyán , William Letrone , Ludovica Robustelli , Gergely Biczók

Anonymizing sensitive information in user text is essential for privacy, yet existing methods often apply uniform treatment across attributes, which can conflict with communicative intent and obscure necessary information. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Weihao Shen , Yaxin Xu , Shuang Li , Wei Chen , Yuqin Lan , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang

Synthetic data generation is one approach for sharing individual-level data. However, to meet legislative requirements, it is necessary to demonstrate that the individuals' privacy is adequately protected. There is no consolidated standard…

The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering most speech services, it also poses serious privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pierre Champion

The analysis of fairness in process mining is a significant aspect of data-driven decision-making, yet the advancement in this field is constrained due to the scarcity of event data that incorporates fairness considerations. To bridge this…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Timo Pohl , Alessandro Berti , Mahnaz Sadat Qafari , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Over the years, the literature on individual data anonymization has burgeoned in many directions. Borrowing from several areas of other sciences, the current diversity of concepts, models and tools available contributes to understanding and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Nicolas Ruiz

The use of AI in public spaces continually raises concerns about privacy and the protection of sensitive data. An example is the deployment of detection and recognition methods on humans, where images are provided by surveillance cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christoph Liebender , Ranulfo Bezerra , Kazunori Ohno , Satoshi Tadokoro

Encoding methods are employed across several process mining tasks, including predictive process monitoring, anomalous case detection, trace clustering, etc. These methods are usually performed as preprocessing steps and are responsible for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sylvio Barbon , Paolo Ceravolo , Rafael S. Oyamada , Gabriel M. Tavares

Wide-scale use of visual surveillance in public spaces puts individual privacy at stake while increasing resource consumption (energy, bandwidth, and computation). Neuromorphic vision sensors (event-cameras) have been recently considered a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shafiq Ahmad , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobility traces at different levels of spatio-temporal granularity. At the same time, users frequently reveal their location through different means, including geo-tagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Nicolas Kourtellis , Ilias Leontiadis , Joan Serrà , Claudio Soriente

Sequential data is everywhere, and it can serve as a basis for research that will lead to improved processes. For example, road infrastructure can be improved by identifying bottlenecks in GPS data, or early diagnosis can be improved by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Sigal Shaked , Lior Rokach

Machine Learning approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks benefit from a comprehensive collection of real-life user data. At the same time, there is a clear need for protecting the privacy of the users whose data is collected and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Ali Davody , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

Process mining is a relatively new subject that builds a bridge between traditional process modeling and data mining. Process discovery is one of the most critical parts of process mining, which aims at discovering process models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yang Lu , Qifan Chen , Simon K. Poon

In process mining, precision measures are used to quantify how much a process model overapproximates the behavior seen in an event log. Although several measures have been proposed throughout the years, no research has been done to validate…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Niek Tax , Xixi Lu , Natalia Sidorova , Dirk Fahland , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Voice anonymisation aims to conceal the voice identity of speakers in speech recordings. Privacy protection is usually estimated from the difficulty of using a speaker verification system to re-identify the speaker post-anonymisation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Michele Panariello , Sarina Meyer , Pierre Champion , Xiaoxiao Miao , Massimiliano Todisco , Ngoc Thang Vu , Nicholas Evans

Comparing business process variants using event logs is a common use case in process mining. Existing techniques for process variant analysis detect statistically-significant differences between variants at the level of individual entities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Farbod Taymouri , Marcello La Rosa , Josep Carmona

The importance of quality measures in process mining has increased. One of the key quality aspects, generalization, is concerned with measuring the degree of overfitting of a process model w.r.t. an event log, since the recorded behavior is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Daniel Reißner , Abel Armas-Cervantes , Marcello La Rosa

Image anonymization is widely adapted in practice to comply with privacy regulations in many regions. However, anonymization often degrades the quality of the data, reducing its utility for computer vision development. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Håkon Hukkelås , Frank Lindseth

For scalable machine learning on large data sets, subsampling a representative subset is a common approach for efficient model training. This is often achieved through importance sampling, whereby informative data points are sampled more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Dominik Fay , Sebastian Mair , Jens Sjölund