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Our ability to control the flow of sensitive personal information to online systems is key to trust in personal privacy on the internet. We ask how to detect, assess and defend user privacy in the face of search engine personalisation? We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Pól Mac Aonghusa , Douglas J. Leith

The increasing availability of sensitive textual data has created an urgent need for robust de-identification methods that enable compliant data sharing while preserving downstream utility. This paper presents DeID-Clinic, a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Angel Paul , Dhivin Shaji , Lifeng Han , Warren Del-Pinto , Goran Nenadic , Suzan Verberne

Recent research has shown that the performance of search personalization depends on the richness of user profiles which normally represent the user's topical interests. In this paper, we propose a new embedding approach to learning user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Thanh Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Mark Johnson , Dawei Song , Alistair Willis

As foundation models grow in both popularity and capability, researchers have uncovered a variety of ways that the models can pose a risk to the model's owner, user, or others. Despite the efforts of measuring these risks via benchmarks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 David Piorkowski , Michael Hind , John Richards , Jacquelyn Martino

The analysis of the privacy properties of Privacy-Preserving Ads APIs is an area of research that has received strong interest from academics, industry, and regulators. Despite this interest, the empirical study of these methods is hindered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Travis Dick , Alessandro Epasto , Adel Javanmard , Josh Karlin , Andres Munoz Medina , Vahab Mirrokni , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Peilin Zhong

Individual user profiles and interaction histories play a significant role in providing customized experiences in real-world applications such as chatbots, social media, retail, and education. Adaptive user representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ruixue Lian , Che-Wei Huang , Yuqing Tang , Qilong Gu , Chengyuan Ma , Chenlei Guo

Application Programming Interface (API) Injection attacks refer to the unauthorized or malicious use of APIs, which are often exploited to gain access to sensitive data or manipulate online systems for illicit purposes. Identifying actors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Udi Aharon , Ran Dubin , Amit Dvir , Chen Hajaj

Responsible disclosure limitation is an iterative exercise in risk assessment and mitigation. From time to time, as disclosure risks grow and evolve and as data users' needs change, agencies must consider redesigning the disclosure…

Text-based person re-identification (Re-ID) is a challenging topic in the field of complex multimodal analysis, its ultimate aim is to recognize specific pedestrians by scrutinizing attributes/natural language descriptions. Despite the wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Fanzhi Jiang , Su Yang , Mark W. Jones , Liumei Zhang

A tremendous amount of individual-level data is generated each day, of use to marketing, decision makers, and machine learning applications. This data often contain private and sensitive information about individuals, which can be disclosed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Marmar Orooji , Gerald M. Knapp

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

We introduce a new framework, dubbed Cerberus, for attribute-based person re-identification (reID). Our approach leverages person attribute labels to learn local and global person representations that encode specific traits, such as gender…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Chanho Eom , Geon Lee , Kyunghwan Cho , Hyeonseok Jung , Moonsub Jin , Bumsub Ham

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has recently attracted much attention as a metric of data privacy that prevents the inference of personal data from obfuscated data in the local model. However, there are scenarios in which the adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Takao Murakami , Kenta Takahashi

Designing useful person re-identification systems for real-world applications requires attention to operational aspects not typically considered in academic research. Here, we focus on the temporal aspect of re-identification; that is,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Srikrishna Karanam , Eric Lam , Richard J. Radke

Identity is one of the most commonly studied constructs in social science. However, despite extensive theoretical work on identity, there remains a need for additional empirical data to validate and refine existing theories. This paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ivan Smirnov

Person re-identification aims to identify a person from an image collection, given one image of that person as the query. There is, however, a plethora of real-life scenarios where we may not have a priori library of query images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Vikram Shree , Wei-Lun Chao , Mark Campbell

Person re-identification (re-ID) has attracted much attention recently due to its great importance in video surveillance. In general, distance metrics used to identify two person images are expected to be robust under various appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Song Bai , Yingwei Li , Yuyin Zhou , Qizhu Li , Philip H. S. Torr

Eye tracking is routinely being incorporated into virtual reality (VR) systems. Prior research has shown that eye tracking data, if exposed, can be used for re-identification attacks. The state of our knowledge about currently existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ethan Wilson , Azim Ibragimov , Michael J. Proulx , Sai Deep Tetali , Kevin Butler , Eakta Jain

Our impression about one person often updates after we see more aspects of him/her and this process keeps iterating given more meetings. We formulate such an intuition into the problem of person re-identification (re-ID), where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Dengpan Fu , Bo Xin , Jingdong Wang , Dongdong Chen , Jianmin Bao , Gang Hua , Houqiang Li

In deep neural networks for facial recognition, feature vectors are numerical representations that capture the unique features of a given face. While it is known that a version of the original face can be recovered via "feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Emily Wenger , Francesca Falzon , Josephine Passananti , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao