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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

In the modern digital world users need to make privacy and security choices that have far-reaching consequences. Researchers are increasingly studying people's decisions when facing with privacy and security trade-offs, the pressing and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Paola Inverardi , Patrizio Migliarini , Massimiliano Palmiero

As the privacy risks posed by camera surveillance and facial recognition have grown, so has the research into privacy preservation algorithms. Among these, visual privacy preservation algorithms attempt to impart bodily privacy to subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Sophie Noiret , Siddharth Ravi , Martin Kampel , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

There is an increasing concern in computer vision devices invading users' privacy by recording unwanted videos. On the one hand, we want the camera systems to recognize important events and assist human daily lives by understanding its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee , Michael S. Ryoo

The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and the widespread usage of MLLM cloud services such as GPT-4V raised great concerns about privacy leakage in visual data. As these models are typically deployed in cloud services,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaofei Hui , Qian Wu , Haoxuan Qu , Majid Mirmehdi , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Individuals who are blind or have low vision (BLV) are at a heightened risk of sharing private information if they share photographs they have taken. To facilitate developing technologies that can help them preserve privacy, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yu-Yun Tseng , Tanusree Sharma , Lotus Zhang , Abigale Stangl , Leah Findlater , Yang Wang , Danna Gurari

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, with its related social distancing and shelter-in-place measures, has dramatically affected ways in which people communicate with each other, forcing people to find new ways to collaborate, study, celebrate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Dima Kagan , Galit Fuhrmann Alpert , Michael Fire

Visual navigation is a fundamental capability of mobile service robots, yet the onboard cameras required for such navigation can capture privacy-sensitive information and raise user privacy concerns. Existing approaches to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xuying Huang , Sicong Pan , Delphine Reinhardt , Maren Bennewitz

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in developing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) capable of processing both textual and visual inputs. These models have demonstrated impressive performance, leading to their widespread adoption in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Hanene F. Z. Brachemi Meftah , Wassim Hamidouche , Sid Ahmed Fezza , Olivier Déforges

Camera-based technology can be privacy-invasive, especially for bystanders who can be captured by the cameras but do not have direct control or access to the devices. The privacy threats become even more significant to bystanders with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yuhang Zhao , Yaxing Yao , Jiaru Fu , Nihan Zhou

Human parsing aims to partition humans in image or video into multiple pixel-level semantic parts. In the last decade, it has gained significantly increased interest in the computer vision community and has been utilized in a broad range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Lu Yang , Wenhe Jia , Shan Li , Qing Song

Visual localization is the task of estimating the camera pose from which a given image was taken and is central to several 3D computer vision applications. With the rapid growth in the popularity of AR/VR/MR devices and cloud-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Kunal Chelani , Torsten Sattler , Fredrik Kahl , Zuzana Kukelova

The accelerated use of digital cameras prompts an increasing concern about privacy and security, particularly in applications such as action recognition. In this paper, we propose an optimizing framework to provide robust visual privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Carlos Hinojosa , Miguel Marquez , Henry Arguello , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles

Ensuring privacy of sensitive data is essential in many contexts, such as healthcare data, banks, e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and social networks. It is common that different entities coordinate or want to rely on a third party to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , George Athanasiou , Martin Jakobsson , Carlo Fischione , John S. Baras

Recent advances in machine learning have enabled its wide application in different domains, and one of the most exciting applications is autonomous vehicles (AVs), which have encouraged the development of a number of ML algorithms from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Chulin Xie , Zhong Cao , Yunhui Long , Diange Yang , Ding Zhao , Bo Li

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

The data is an important asset of an organization and it is essential to keep this asset secure. It requires security in whatever state is it i.e. data at rest, data in use, and data in transit. There is a need to pay more attention to it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Ishu Gupta , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Privacy is of worldwide concern regarding activities and processes that include sensitive data. For this reason, many countries and territories have been recently approving regulations controlling the extent to which organizations may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Samuel Sousa , Christian Guetl , Roman Kern

The proliferation of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) introduces profound privacy risks from personal videos. This paper addresses the critical yet unexplored inferential privacy threat, the risk of inferring sensitive personal attributes over…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Shuning Zhang , Zhaoxin Li , Changxi Wen , Ying Ma , Simin Li , Gengrui Zhang , Ziyi Zhang , Yibo Meng , Hantao Zhao , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) combine visual and textual understanding, rendering them well-suited for diverse tasks like generating image captions and answering visual questions across various domains. However, these capabilities are built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Simone Caldarella , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci , Rahaf Aljundi