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Data hiding is the art of hiding secret data into a cover object such as digital image for covert communication. In this paper, we make the first step towards hiding ``data hiding'', which is totally different from many conventional works…

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Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

Several anonymization techniques, such as generalization and bucketization, have been designed for privacy preserving microdata publishing. Recent work has shown that generalization loses considerable amount of information, especially for…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Tiancheng Li , Ninghui Li , Jian Zhang , Ian Molloy

A recently proposed scheme utilizing local noise addition and matrix masking enables data collection while protecting individual privacy from all parties, including the central data manager. Statistical analysis of such privacy-preserved…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Linh H Nghiem , Aidong A. Ding , Samuel Wu

We propose a practical methodology to protect a user's private data, when he wishes to publicly release data that is correlated with his private data, in the hope of getting some utility. Our approach relies on a general statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Salman Salamatian , Amy Zhang , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Sandilya Bhamidipati , Nadia Fawaz , Branislav Kveton , Pedro Oliveira , Nina Taft

Our work focuses on understanding the underpinning mechanism of dataset condensation by drawing connections with ($\epsilon$, $\delta$)-differential privacy where the optimal noise, $\epsilon$, is chosen by adversarial uncertainty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kenneth Odoh

Sparse coding, which refers to modeling a signal as sparse linear combinations of the elements of a learned dictionary, has proven to be a successful (and interpretable) approach in applications such as signal processing, computer vision,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Muthu Chidambaram , Chenwei Wu , Yu Cheng , Rong Ge

Genomic data provides clinical researchers with vast opportunities to study various patient ailments. Yet the same data contains revealing information, some of which a patient might want to remain concealed. The question then arises: how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Kato Mivule

Growing leakage and misuse of visual information raise security and privacy concerns, which promotes the development of information protection. Existing adversarial perturbations-based methods mainly focus on the de-identification against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhigang Su , Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wangu , Decheng Li , Zhen Wang , Xinbo Gao

Association rule mining is an important data-mining technique that finds interesting association among a large set of data items. Since it may disclose patterns and various kinds of sensitive knowledge that are difficult to find otherwise,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Dhyanendra Jain

Privacy considerations and bias in datasets are quickly becoming high-priority issues that the computer vision community needs to face. So far, little attention has been given to practical solutions that do not involve collection of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Peiyang He , Charlie Griffin , Krzysztof Kacprzyk , Artjom Joosen , Michael Collyer , Aleksandar Shtedritski , Yuki M. Asano

In recent years the amount of digital data in the world has risen immensely. But, the more information exists, the greater is the possibility of its unwanted disclosure. Thus, the data privacy protection has become a pressing problem of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

Data collected nowadays by social-networking applications create fascinating opportunities for building novel services, as well as expanding our understanding about social structures and their dynamics. Unfortunately, publishing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Boldi , Francesco Bonchi , Aris Gionis , Tamir Tassa

Latent diffusion models can be used as a powerful augmentation method to artificially extend datasets for enhanced training. To the human eye, these augmented images look very different to the originals. Previous work has suggested to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Valentin Haug , Rainer Lienhart

The goal of differentially private text obfuscation is to obfuscate, or "perturb", input texts with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees, such that the private output texts are quantifiably indistinguishable from the originals. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Stephen Meisenbacher , Angelo Kleinert , Florian Matthes

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

The re-identification or de-anonymization of users from anonymized data through matching with publicly available correlated user data has raised privacy concerns, leading to the complementary measure of obfuscation in addition to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Serhat Bakirtas , Elza Erkip

Recent deep learning models have shown remarkable performance in image classification. While these deep learning systems are getting closer to practical deployment, the common assumption made about data is that it does not carry any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Abhishek Singh , Ayush Chopra , Vivek Sharma , Ethan Garza , Emily Zhang , Praneeth Vepakomma , Ramesh Raskar

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu

Distributed data sharing in dynamic networks is ubiquitous. It raises the concern that the private information of dynamic networks could be leaked when data receivers are malicious or communication channels are insecure. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Yang Lu , Minghui Zhu