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Extended Reality (XR) technology is changing online interactions, but its granular data collection sensors may be more invasive to user privacy than web, mobile, and the Internet of Things technologies. Despite an increased interest in…

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Users readily embrace the rapid advancements in virtual reality (VR) technology within various everyday contexts, such as gaming, social interactions, shopping, and commerce. In order to facilitate transactions and payments, VR systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jingjie Li , Sunpreet Singh Arora , Kassem Fawaz , Younghyun Kim , Can Liu , Sebastian Meiser , Mohsen Minaei , Maliheh Shirvanian , Kim Wagner

While the rapid proliferation of wearable cameras has raised significant concerns about egocentric video privacy, prior work has largely overlooked the unique privacy threats posed to the camera wearer. This work investigates the core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yijiang Li , Genpei Zhang , Jiacheng Cheng , Yi Li , Xiaojun Shan , Dashan Gao , Jiancheng Lyu , Yuan Li , Ning Bi , Nuno Vasconcelos

Algorithms engineered to leverage rich behavioral and biometric data to predict individual attributes and actions continue to permeate public and private life. A fundamental risk may emerge from misconceptions about the sensitivity of such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Jeremy Gordon , Max Curran , John Chuang , Coye Cheshire

While the rapid development of facial recognition algorithms has enabled numerous beneficial applications, their widespread deployment has raised significant concerns about the risks of mass surveillance and threats to individual privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Paweł Borsukiewicz , Daniele Lunghi , Melissa Tessa , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

In this paper, we propose generating artificial data that retain statistical properties of real data as the means of providing privacy with respect to the original dataset. We use generative adversarial network to draw privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

The virtual dimension called `Cyberspace' built on internet technologies has served people's daily lives for decades. Now it offers advanced services and connected experiences with the developing pervasive computing technologies that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yinhao Jiang , Ba Dung Le , Tanveer Zia , Praveen Gauravaram

With the recent explosive growth of interest and investment in virtual reality (VR) and the so-called "metaverse," public attention has rightly shifted toward the unique security and privacy threats that these platforms may pose. While it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Vivek Nair , Wenbo Guo , Justus Mattern , Rui Wang , James F. O'Brien , Louis Rosenberg , Dawn Song

By focusing on immersive interaction among users, the burgeoning Metaverse can be viewed as a natural extension of existing social media. Similar to traditional online social networks, there are numerous security and privacy issues in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Ruizhi Cheng , Songqing Chen , Bo Han

Users in various web and mobile applications are vulnerable to attribute inference attacks, in which an attacker leverages a machine learning classifier to infer a target user's private attributes (e.g., location, sexual orientation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Social media users generate tremendous amounts of data. To better serve users, it is required to share the user-related data among researchers, advertisers and application developers. Publishing such data would raise more concerns on user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Ghazaleh Beigi , Kai Shu , Yanchao Zhang , Huan Liu

While DeepFake applications are becoming popular in recent years, their abuses pose a serious privacy threat. Unfortunately, most related detection algorithms to mitigate the abuse issues are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xiangtao Meng , Li Wang , Shanqing Guo , Lei Ju , Qingchuan Zhao

Users like sharing personal photos with others through social media. At the same time, they might want to make automatic identification in such photos difficult or even impossible. Classic obfuscation methods such as blurring are not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Seong Joon Oh , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

With eye tracking being increasingly integrated into virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) head-mounted displays, preserving users' privacy is an ever more important, yet under-explored, topic in the eye tracking community. We report a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Julian Steil , Inken Hagestedt , Michael Xuelin Huang , Andreas Bulling

Virtual reality and related technologies such as mixed and augmented reality have received extensive coverage in both mainstream and fringe media outlets. When the subject goes to a new AR headset, another AR device, or AR glasses, the talk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sameer Chauhan , Luv Sachdeva

Due to the abrupt arise of pandemic worldwide, the video conferencing platforms are becoming ubiquitously available and being embedded into either various digital devices or the collaborative daily work. Even though the service provider has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shijing He , Yaxiong Lei

Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a distinct threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work demonstrates that models produced by these algorithms may leak specific private information in the training data to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Samuel Yeom , Irene Giacomelli , Matt Fredrikson , Somesh Jha

Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Miguel A. DelaCruz , Patricia Mae Santos , Rafael T. Navarro

The arms race between attacks and defenses for machine learning models has come to a forefront in recent years, in both the security community and the privacy community. However, one big limitation of previous research is that the security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Liwei Song , Reza Shokri , Prateek Mittal