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We present a framework to learn privacy-preserving encodings of images that inhibit inference of chosen private attributes, while allowing recovery of other desirable information. Rather than simply inhibiting a given fixed pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Francesco Pittaluga , Sanjeev J. Koppal , Ayan Chakrabarti

We propose a privacy-preserving machine learning scheme with encryption-then-compression (EtC) images, where EtC images are images encrypted by using a block-based encryption method proposed for EtC systems with JPEG compression. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Ayana Kawamura , Yuma Kinoshita , Takayuki Nakachi , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Training neural networks usually require large numbers of sensitive training data, and how to protect the privacy of training data has thus become a critical topic in deep learning research. InstaHide is a state-of-the-art scheme to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Baihe Huang , Zhao Song , Runzhou Tao , Junze Yin , Ruizhe Zhang , Danyang Zhuo

This article presents block-wise image encryption for the vision transformer and its applications. Perceptual image encryption for deep learning enables us not only to protect the visual information of plain images but to also embed unique…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Hitoshi Kiya , Ryota Iijima , Teru Nagamori

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving image classification method that is based on the combined use of encrypted images and the vision transformer (ViT). The proposed method allows us not only to apply images without visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zheng Qi , AprilPyone MaungMaung , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

We consider the recent privacy preserving methods that train the models not on original images, but on mixed images that look like noise and hard to trace back to the original images. We explain that those mixed images will be samples on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Unlearnable examples are proposed to prevent third parties from exploiting unauthorized data, which generates unlearnable examples by adding imperceptible perturbations to public publishing data. These unlearnable examples proficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pucheng Dang , Xing Hu , Kaidi Xu , Jinhao Duan , Di Huang , Husheng Han , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du

Privacy-preserving inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using homomorphic encryption has emerged as a promising approach for enabling secure machine learning in untrusted environments. In our previous work, we introduced a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 John Chiang

In this paper, we propose a novel privacy-preserving machine learning scheme with encrypted images, called EtC (Encryption-then-Compression) images. Using machine learning algorithms in cloud environments has been spreading in many fields.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Ayana Kawamura , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

The growing use of large language models in sensitive domains has exposed a critical weakness: the inability to ensure that private information can be permanently forgotten. Yet these systems still lack reliable mechanisms to guarantee that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 James Jin Kang , Dang Bui , Thanh Pham , Huo-Chong Ling

We present a novel privacy-preserving scheme for deep neural networks (DNNs) that enables us not to only apply images without visual information to DNNs for both training and testing but to also consider data augmentation in the encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Warit Sirichotedumrong , Takahiro Maekawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Vision is one of the essential sources through which humans acquire information. In this paper, we establish a novel framework for measuring image information content to evaluate the variation in information content during image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 XiaoKai Cao , WenJin Mo , ChangDong Wang , JianHuang Lai , Qiong Huang

Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information about the scene or subjects, e.g., by reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mihai Dusmanu , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

In the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, privacy protection has become crucial, giving rise to machine unlearning. Machine unlearning is a technique that removes specific data influences from trained models without the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenhan Chang , Tianqing Zhu , Ping Xiong , Yufeng Wu , Faqian Guan , Wanlei Zhou

The existing image embedding networks are basically vulnerable to malicious attacks such as JPEG compression and noise adding, not applicable for real-world copyright protection tasks. To solve this problem, we introduce a generative deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Qichao Ying , Hang Zhou , Xianhan Zeng , Haisheng Xu , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Recent work has shown that deep neural networks are highly sensitive to tiny perturbations of input images, giving rise to adversarial examples. Though this property is usually considered a weakness of learned models, we explore whether it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jiren Zhu , Russell Kaplan , Justin Johnson , Li Fei-Fei

This paper presents a client/server privacy-preserving network in the context of multicentric medical image analysis. Our approach is based on adversarial learning which encodes images to obfuscate the patient identity while preserving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Bach Ngoc Kim , Jose Dolz , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Christian Desrosiers

With the increasing prevalence of cloud computing platforms, ensuring data privacy during the cloud-based image related services such as classification has become crucial. In this study, we propose a novel privacypreserving image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jun Liu , Jiantao Zhou , Jinyu Tian , Weiwei Sun

The privacy of data is a major challenge in machine learning as a trained model may expose sensitive information of the enclosed dataset. Besides, the limited computation capability and capacity of edge devices have made cloud-hosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

Preserving privacy is a growing concern in our society where sensors and cameras are ubiquitous. In this work, for the first time, we propose a trainable image acquisition method that removes the sensitive identity revealing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yamin Sepehri , Pedram Pad , Pascal Frossard , L. Andrea Dunbar