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Human mobility data is a crucial resource for urban mobility management, but it does not come without personal reference. The implementation of security measures such as anonymization is thus needed to protect individuals' privacy. Often, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alexandra Kapp

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

To prove that a dataset is sufficiently anonymized, many privacy policies suggest that a re-identification risk assessment be performed, but do not provide a precise methodology for doing so, leaving the industry alone with the problem.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Louis-Philippe Sondeck , Maryline Laurent

The widespread deployment of surveillance cameras for facial recognition gives rise to many privacy concerns. This study proposes a privacy-friendly alternative to large scale facial recognition. While there are multiple techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

The rapid advancement of authentication systems and their increasing reliance on biometrics for faster and more accurate user verification experience, highlight the critical need for a reliable framework to evaluate the suitability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Rouqaiah Al-Refai , Pankaja Priya Ramasamy , Ragini Ramesh , Patricia Arias-Cabarcos , Philipp Terhörst

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

The increasing demand for large-scale visual data, coupled with strict privacy regulations, has driven research into anonymization methods that hide personal identities without seriously degrading data quality. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

In the recent past, different researchers have proposed privacy-enhancing face recognition systems designed to conceal soft-biometric attributes at feature level. These works have reported impressive results, but generally did not consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dailé Osorio-Roig , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Philipp Terhörst , Vitomir Štruc , Christoph Busch

This work addresses the problem of anonymizing the identity of faces in a dataset of images, such that the privacy of those depicted is not violated, while at the same time the dataset is useful for downstream task such as for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Simone Barattin , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Nicu Sebe

This paper conducts an extensive review of biometric user authentication literature, addressing three primary research questions: (1) commonly used biometric traits and their suitability for specific applications, (2) performance factors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Reem Alrawili , Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Muhammad Khurram Khan

This paper investigates the dependence of existing state-of-the-art person re-identification models on the presence and visibility of human faces. We apply a face detection and blurring algorithm to create anonymized versions of several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Julia Dietlmeier , Joseph Antony , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor

Cause of a rapid increase in technological development, increasing identity theft, consumer fraud, the threat to personal data is also increasing every day. Methods developed earlier to ensure personal the information from the thefts was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Sher Dadakhanov

Current face anonymization techniques often depend on identity loss calculated by face recognition models, which can be inaccurate and unreliable. Additionally, many methods require supplementary data such as facial landmarks and masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Sanjay Saha , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

Anonymization of graph-based data is a problem which has been widely studied over the last years and several anonymization methods have been developed. Information loss measures have been used to evaluate data utility and information loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Jordi Casas-Roma

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

To enable process analysis based on an event log without compromising the privacy of individuals involved in process execution, a log may be anonymized. Such anonymization strives to transform a log so that it satisfies provable privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Fabian Rösel , Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Han van der Aa , Matthias Weidlich

Biometric recognition is a trending technology that uses unique characteristics data to identify or verify/authenticate security applications. Amidst the classically used biometrics, voice and face attributes are the most propitious for…

BIOMETRICS are an important and widely used class of methods for identity verification and access control. Biometrics are attractive because they are inherent properties of an individual. They need not be remembered like passwords, and are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Shantanu Rane , Ye Wang , Stark. C. Draper , Prakash Ishwar

Biometric systems involve security assurance to make our system highly secured and robust. Nowadays, biometric technology has been fixed into new systems with the aim of enforcing strong privacy and security. Several innovative system have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jones Yeboah , Victor Adewopo , Sylvia Azumah , Izunna Okpala

A face image not only provides details about the identity of a subject but also reveals several attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. Advancements in machine learning algorithms and popularity of sharing images on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Saheb Chhabra , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Gaurav Gupta