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Anonymized data is highly valuable to both businesses and researchers. A large body of research has however shown the strong limits of the de-identification release-and-forget model, where data is anonymized and shared. This has led to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Andrea Gadotti , Florimond Houssiau , Luc Rocher , Benjamin Livshits , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Speaker anonymization is the task of modifying a speech recording such that the original speaker cannot be identified anymore. Since the first Voice Privacy Challenge in 2020, along with the release of a framework, the popularity of this…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Sarina Meyer , Xiaoxiao Miao , Ngoc Thang Vu

In recent years, the increasing availability of personal data has raised concerns regarding privacy and security. One of the critical processes to address these concerns is data anonymization, which aims to protect individual privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fabio Hellmann , Silvan Mertes , Mohamed Benouis , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Cristina Conati , Peter Krawitz , Elisabeth André

To protect user privacy in data analysis, a state-of-the-art strategy is differential privacy in which scientific noise is injected into the real analysis output. The noise masks individual's sensitive information contained in the dataset.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xuan-Son Vu , Lili Jiang

As users increasingly rely on cloud-based computing services, it is important to ensure that uploaded speech data remains private. Existing solutions rely either on server-side methods or focus on hiding speaker identity. While these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Peter Wu , Paul Pu Liang , Jiatong Shi , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Shinji Watanabe , Louis-Philippe Morency

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

Voice anonymization has been developed as a technique for preserving privacy by replacing the speaker's voice in a speech signal with that of a pseudo-speaker, thereby obscuring the original voice attributes from machine recognition and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong AiK Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling

Process mining techniques aim to extract insights in processes from event logs. One of the challenges in process mining is identifying interesting and meaningful event labels that contribute to a better understanding of the process. Our…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Niek Tax , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Decision mining enables the discovery of decision rules from event logs or streams, and constitutes an important part of in-depth analysis and optimisation of business processes. So far, decision mining has been merely applied in an ex-post…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Beate Scheibel , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

In this work, we focus on protection against identity disclosure in the publication of sparse multidimensional data. Existing multidimensional anonymization techniquesa) protect the privacy of users either by altering the set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manolis Terrovitis , John Liagouris , Nikos Mamoulis , Spiros Skiadopoulos

Process discovery aims to discover descriptive process models from event logs. These discovered process models depict the actual execution of a process and serve as a foundational element for conformance checking, performance analyses, and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ali Norouzifar , Marcus Dees , Wil van der Aalst

Salience Estimation aims to predict term importance in documents. Due to few existing human-annotated datasets and the subjective notion of salience, previous studies typically generate pseudo-ground truth for evaluation. However, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jiaying Lu , Jinho D. Choi

The secure transmission of speech information is a significant issue faced by many security professionals and individuals. By applying voice-encryption technique any kind of encrypted sensitive speech data such as password can be…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Rupa Patel , Urmila Shrawankar

This paper addresses the challenge of privacy preservation for statistical inputs in dynamical systems. Motivated by an autonomous building application, we formulate a privacy preservation problem for statistical inputs in linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Le Liu , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao

Audit trails are evidential indications of activities performers in any logs. Modern reactive systems such as transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems and even executive management systems log…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Patrick Mukala

We show that while anonymization effectively obscures firm identity, it significantly reduces the power of textual understanding, thereby diminishing models' ability to extract meaningful economic signals from financial texts. This…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-20 Ke Wu , Baozhong Yang , Zhenkun Ying , Dexin Zhou

For preserving privacy, blockchains can be equipped with dedicated mechanisms to anonymize participants. However, these mechanism often take only the abstraction layer of blockchains into account whereas observations of the underlying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 David Mödinger , Henning Kopp , Frank Kargl , Franz J. Hauck

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

Process mining is a research field focused on the analysis of event data with the aim of extracting insights in processes. Applying process mining techniques on data from smart home environments has the potential to provide valuable…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-13 Niek Tax , Emin Alasgarov , Natalia Sidorova , Reinder Haakma

Rather than anonymizing social graphs by generalizing them to super nodes/edges or adding/removing nodes and edges to satisfy given privacy parameters, recent methods exploit the semantics of uncertain graphs to achieve privacy protection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Hiep H. Nguyen , Abdessamad Imine , Michaël Rusinowitch