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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

Large-scale deep learning models with a pretraining-finetuning paradigm have led to a surge of numerous task-specific models fine-tuned from a common pre-trained model. Recently, several research efforts have been made on merging these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yeoreum Lee , Jinwook Jung , Sungyong Baik

Segmentation uncertainty models predict a distribution over plausible segmentations for a given input, which they learn from the annotator variation in the training set. However, in practice these annotations can differ systematically in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Kilian Zepf , Eike Petersen , Jes Frellsen , Aasa Feragen

While deep neural networks have been achieving state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks limits their widespread deployment for safety-critical applications. Alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

Deep convolutional neural networks have driven substantial advancements in the automatic understanding of images. Requiring a large collection of images and their associated annotations is one of the main bottlenecks limiting the adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zahra Mirikharaji , Yiqi Yan , Ghassan Hamarneh

Federated learning has been proposed as a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple clients to collaborate without sharing raw data. However, client privacy protection is not guaranteed by design in this framework.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Dror Baron , Huaiyu Dai

Medical ultrasound imaging is ubiquitous, but manual analysis struggles to keep pace. Automated segmentation can help but requires large labeled datasets, which are scarce. Semi-supervised learning leveraging both unlabeled and limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Yaxiong Chen , Yujie Wang , Zixuan Zheng , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou

Privacy-preserving adaptation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in sensitive domains (e.g., mental health) requires balancing strict confidentiality with model utility and safety. We propose FedMentor, a federated fine-tuning framework that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nobin Sarwar , Shubhashis Roy Dipta

Adversarial examples are delicately perturbed inputs, which aim to mislead machine learning models towards incorrect outputs. While most of the existing work focuses on generating adversarial perturbations in multi-class classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Qingquan Song , Haifeng Jin , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Specifically, we propose the first method tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hanlin Gu , Hong Xi Tae , Lixin Fan , Chee Seng Chan

We propose a novel method for creating adversarial examples. Instead of perturbing pixels, we use an encoder-decoder representation of the input image and perturb intermediate layers in the decoder. This changes the high-level features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Vojtěch Čermák , Lukáš Adam

Precision matrix estimation is a fundamental topic in multivariate statistics and modern machine learning. This paper proposes an adversarially perturbed precision matrix estimation framework, motivated by recent developments in adversarial…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yiling Xie

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Despite the tremendous success of deep neural networks in various learning problems, it has been observed that adding an intentionally designed adversarial perturbation to inputs of these architectures leads to erroneous classification with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

This paper explores the security aspects of federated learning applications in medical image analysis. Current robustness-oriented methods like adversarial training, secure aggregation, and homomorphic encryption often risk privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Erfan Darzi , Nanna M. Sijtsema , P. M. A van Ooijen

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

Recent studies on face attribute editing by exemplars have achieved promising results due to the increasing power of deep convolutional networks and generative adversarial networks. These methods encode attribute-related information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jingtao Guo , Zhenzhen Qian , Zuowei Zhou , Yi Liu

Foundation models pretrained on physiological data such as photoplethysmography (PPG) signals are increasingly used to improve heart rate (HR) prediction across diverse settings. Fine-tuning these models for local deployment is often seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lovely Yeswanth Panchumarthi , Saurabh Kataria , Yi Wu , Xiao Hu , Alex Fedorov , Hyunjung Gloria Kwak

Adapting pre-trained foundation models for various downstream tasks has been prevalent in artificial intelligence. Due to the vast number of tasks and high costs, adjusting all parameters becomes unfeasible. To mitigate this, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chongjie Si , Xuehui Wang , Xue Yang , Zhengqin Xu , Qingyun Li , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen