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Deep image steganography is a data hiding technology that conceal data in digital images via deep neural networks. However, existing deep image steganography methods only consider the visual similarity of container images to host images,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yanzhen Ren , Ting Liu , Liming Zhai , Lina Wang

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Steganography represents the art of unobtrusively concealing a secrete message within some cover data. The key scope of this work is about visual steganography techniques that hide a full-sized color image / video within another. A majority…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xinyu Weng , Yongzhi Li , Lu Chi , Yadong Mu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in 6G vehicular networks promises unprecedented advancements in intelligent transportation systems. However, offloading LLM computations from vehicles to edge infrastructure poses significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ikhlasse Badidi , Nouhaila El Khiyaoui , Aya Riany , Badr Ben Elallid , Amine Abouaomar

The security of private communication is increasingly at risk due to widespread surveillance. Steganography, a technique for embedding secret messages within innocuous carriers, enables covert communication over monitored channels. Provably…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kaiyi Pang , Minhao Bai

Convolutional neural network is a machine-learning model widely applied in various prediction tasks, such as computer vision and medical image analysis. Their great predictive power requires extensive computation, which encourages model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Minghui Li , Sherman S. M. Chow , Shengshan Hu , Yuejing Yan , Chao Shen , Qian Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have long been recognized as vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By providing poisoned training data in the fine-tuning process, the attacker can implant a backdoor into the victim model. This enables input samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Abdullah Arafat Miah , Yu Bi

Steganography is an art of obscuring data inside another quotidian file of similar or varying types. Hiding data has always been of significant importance to digital forensics. Previously, steganography has been combined with cryptography…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Kartik Sharma , Ashutosh Aggarwal , Tanay Singhania , Deepak Gupta , Ashish Khanna

Backdoors and adversarial examples are the two primary threats currently faced by deep neural networks (DNNs). Both attacks attempt to hijack the model behaviors with unintended outputs by introducing (small) perturbations to the inputs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunjie Ge , Qian Wang , Huayang Huang , Qi Li , Cong Wang , Chao Shen , Lingchen Zhao , Peipei Jiang , Zheng Fang , Shenyi Zhang

Local fine-tuning datasets routinely contain sensitive secrets such as API keys, personal identifiers, and financial records. Although ''local offline fine-tuning'' is often viewed as a privacy boundary, we reveal that compromised model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zi Li , Tian Zhou , Wenze Li , Jingyu Hua , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

Recent work has proposed the concept of backdoor attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs), where misbehaviors are hidden inside "normal" models, only to be triggered by very specific inputs. In practice, however, these attacks are difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yuanshun Yao , Huiying Li , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Image steganography is the art and science of using images as cover for covert communications. With the development of neural networks, traditional image steganography is more likely to be detected by deep learning-based steganalysis. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Donghui Hu , Yu Zhang , Cong Yu , Jian Wang , Yaofei Wang

The success of deep learning in medical imaging applications has led several companies to deploy proprietary models in diagnostic workflows, offering monetized services. Even though model weights are hidden to protect the intellectual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Ankita Raj , Harsh Swaika , Deepankar Varma , Chetan Arora

Machine Learning (ML) models are very effective in many learning tasks, due to the capability to extract meaningful information from large data sets. Nevertheless, there are learning problems that cannot be easily solved relying on pure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Andrea Borghesi , Federico Baldo , Michele Lombardi , Michela Milano

Despite their great success, there is still no comprehensive theoretical understanding of learning with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) or their inner organization. Previous work proposed to analyze DNNs in the \textit{Information Plane}; i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Naftali Tishby

The widespread application of audio communication technologies has speeded up audio data flowing across the Internet, which made it a popular carrier for covert communication. In this paper, we present a cross-modal steganography method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Wenxue Cui , Shaohui Liu , Feng Jiang , Yongliang Liu , Debin Zhao

Machine unlearning has become a promising solution for fulfilling the "right to be forgotten", under which individuals can request the deletion of their data from machine learning models. However, existing studies of machine unlearning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hongsheng Hu , Shuo Wang , Tian Dong , Minhui Xue

This paper presents a framework for deep transfer learning, which aims to leverage information from multi-domain upstream data with a large number of samples $n$ to a single-domain downstream task with a considerably smaller number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuling Jiao , Huazhen Lin , Yuchen Luo , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are fast becoming ubiquitous for their ability to attain good accuracy in various machine learning tasks. A DNN's architecture (i.e., its hyper-parameters) broadly determines the DNN's accuracy and performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Mengjia Yan , Christopher Fletcher , Josep Torrellas

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a designed trigger is injected into the dataset, causing erroneous predictions when activated. In this paper, we propose a novel defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenjie Huo , Katinka Wolter