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We present a practical method for protecting data during the inference phase of deep learning based on bipartite topology threat modeling and an interactive adversarial deep network construction. We term this approach \emph{Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jianfeng Chi , Emmanuel Owusu , Xuwang Yin , Tong Yu , William Chan , Patrick Tague , Yuan Tian

Recent work~\cite{Liu2016} has shown that dependencies between items in a dataset can lead to privacy leaks. We extend this concept to privacy-preserving transformations, considering a broader set of dependencies captured by correlation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kenneth Odoh

Voice privacy approaches that preserve the anonymity of speakers modify speech in an attempt to break the link with the true identity of the speaker. Current benchmarks measure speaker protection based on signal-to-signal comparisons. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mehtab Ur Rahman , Martha Larson , Cristian Tejedor-Garcia

Deep Neural Network (DNN), one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms, is increasingly leveraged to overcome the bottleneck of effectively exploring and analyzing massive data to boost advanced scientific development. It is not a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Xiaoyu Zhang , Chao Chen , Yi Xie , Xiaofeng Chen , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Privacy preservation is a crucial component of any real-world application. But, in applications relying on machine learning backends, privacy is challenging because models often capture more than what the model was initially trained for,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mimansa Jaiswal , Emily Mower Provost

Crowd management relies on inspection of surveillance video either by operators or by object detection models. These models are large, making it difficult to deploy them on resource constrained edge hardware. Instead, the computations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Sander De Coninck , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

As the integration of Internet of Things devices with cloud computing proliferates, the paramount importance of privacy preservation comes to the forefront. This survey paper meticulously explores the landscape of privacy issues in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 D. Dhinakaran , S. M. Udhaya Sankar , D. Selvaraj , S. Edwin Raja

The need for secure and private Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) on edge and mobile devices has increased the necessity of protecting the architecture of these systems from threats to both security and privacy. With an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zisis Tsiatsikas , Alexandros Fakis , Georgios Karopoulos , Vasileios Kouliaridis , Marios Anagnostopoulos

Implicit authentication consists of a server authenticating a user based on the user's usage profile, instead of/in addition to relying on something the user explicitly knows (passwords, private keys, etc.). While implicit authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Qianhong Wu , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Data sharing enables critical advances in many research areas and business applications, but it may lead to inadvertent disclosure of sensitive summary statistics (e.g., means or quantiles). Existing literature only focuses on protecting a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Shuaiqi Wang , Rongzhe Wei , Mohsen Ghassemi , Eleonora Kreacic , Vamsi K. Potluru

The increasing popularity of online social network brings huge privacy threat for the end users. While existing work focus on inferring sensitive attributes from the social network such as age, location and gender, little has been done on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Jinxue Zhang

Privacy-preserving analytics is designed to protect valuable assets. A common service provision involves the input data from the client and the model on the analyst's side. The importance of the privacy preservation is fuelled by legal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Martin Kodys , Zhongmin Dai , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

This paper introduces a paradigm shift in the way privacy is defined, driven by a novel interpretation of the fundamental result of Dwork and Naor about the impossibility of absolute disclosure prevention. We propose a general model of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sara Saeidian , Giulia Cervia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The rapid development of video surveillance systems for object detection, tracking, activity recognition, and anomaly detection has revolutionized our day-to-day lives while setting alarms for privacy concerns. It isn't easy to strike a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Nazia Aslam , Kamal Nasrollahi

Detecting inference queries running over personal attributes and protecting such queries from leaking individual information requires tremendous effort from practitioners. To tackle this problem, we propose an end-to-end workflow for…

Current online translation services require sending user text to cloud servers, posing a risk of privacy leakage when the text contains sensitive information. This risk hinders the application of online translation services in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wei Shao , Lemao Liu , Yinqiao Li , Guoping Huang , Shuming Shi , Linqi Song

Information from surveillance video is essential for situational awareness (SAW). Nowadays, a prohibitively large amount of surveillance data is being generated continuously by ubiquitously distributed video sensors. It is very challenging…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Seyed Yahya Nikouei , Ronghua Xu , Deeraj Nagothu , Yu Chen , Alexander Aved , Erik Blasch

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art definition for privacy, guaranteeing that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this thesis, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Vassilis Digalakis

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

The collection of a lot of personal information about individuals, including the minor members of a family, by closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras creates a lot of privacy concerns. Particularly, revealing children's identifications or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Meng Yuan , Seyed Yahya Nikouei , Alem Fitwi , Yu Chen , Yunxi Dong