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The widespread sharing of face images on social media platforms and in large-scale datasets raises pressing privacy concerns, as biometric identifiers can be exploited without consent. Face anonymization seeks to generate realistic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Raimondo Schettini

We introduce a novel formulation of visual privacy preservation for video foundation models that operates entirely in the latent space. While spatio-temporal features learned by foundation models have deepened general understanding of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joseph Fioresi , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Mubarak Shah

To enable process analysis based on an event log without compromising the privacy of individuals involved in process execution, a log may be anonymized. Such anonymization strives to transform a log so that it satisfies provable privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Fabian Rösel , Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Han van der Aa , Matthias Weidlich

The VoicePrivacy Challenge promotes the development of voice anonymisation solutions for speech technology. In this paper we present a systematic overview and analysis of the second edition held in 2022. We describe the voice anonymisation…

The proliferation of speech technologies and rising privacy legislation calls for the development of privacy preservation solutions for speech applications. These are essential since speech signals convey a wealth of rich, personal and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Paul-Gauthier Noé , Jean-François Bonastre , Driss Matrouf , Natalia Tomashenko , Andreas Nautsch , Nicholas Evans

The goal of voice anonymization is to modify an audio such that the true identity of its speaker is hidden. Research on this task is typically limited to the same English read speech datasets, thus the efficacy of current methods for other…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Sarina Meyer , Ekaterina Kolos , Ngoc Thang Vu

Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ajinkya Kulkarni , Francisco Teixeira , Enno Hermann , Thomas Rolland , Isabel Trancoso , Mathew Magimai Doss

As privacy issues have gained social salience, entrepreneurs have begun to offer privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) and the U.S. has begun to enact privacy legislation. But "privacy" is an ambiguous notion. In the liberal tradition, it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David J. Phillips

In speaker anonymization, speech recordings are modified in a way that the identity of the speaker remains hidden. While this technology could help to protect the privacy of individuals around the globe, current research restricts this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sarina Meyer , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

Today, the publication of microdata poses a privacy threat. Vast research has striven to define the privacy condition that microdata should satisfy before it is released, and devise algorithms to anonymize the data so as to achieve this…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Jianneng Cao , Panagiotis Karras

Many popular applications use traces of user data to offer various services to their users. However, even if user data is anonymized and obfuscated, a user's privacy can be compromised through the use of statistical matching techniques that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Nazanin Takbiri , Amir Houmansadr , Dennis L. Goeckel , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Data is used widely by service providers as input to inference systems to perform decision making for authorized tasks. The raw data however allows a service provider to infer other sensitive information it has not been authorized for. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

Given a source image of a clothed person (an image subject), AI-based nudification applications can produce nude (undressed) images of that person. Moreover, not only do such applications exist, but there is ample evidence of the use of…

In blockchain-based anonymous cryptocurrencies, due to their tamper-resistance and transparency characteristics, transaction data are initially required to be anonymous, with the help of various cryptographic techniques, e.g., commitment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Takeshi Miyamae , Kanta Matsuura

The demand for privacy in facial image dissemination is gaining ground internationally, echoed by the proliferation of regulations such as GDPR, DPDPA, CCPA, PIPL, and APPI. While recent advances in anonymization surpass pixelation or blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Majed El Helou , Doruk Cetin , Petar Stamenkovic , Niko Benjamin Huber , Fabio Zünd

Users are often overwhelmed by privacy decisions to manage their personal data, which can happen on the web, in mobile, and in IoT environments. These decisions can take various forms -- such as decisions for setting privacy permissions or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Victor Morel , Simone Fischer-Hübner

Privacy has become a serious concern for modern Information Societies. The sensitive nature of much of the data that are daily exchanged or released to untrusted parties requires that responsible organizations undertake appropriate privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-03 David Sánchez , Montserrat Batet

Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data, but they often lack the capabilities needed to fully extract insights. As a result, they increasingly share data with external experts, such as analysts or researchers, to gain value from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Joseph K. Agor , Muge Capan

System logs are a valuable source of information for the analysis and understanding of systems behavior for the purpose of improving their performance. Such logs contain various types of information, including sensitive information.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

To date publish of a giant social network jointly from different parties is an easier collaborative approach. Agencies and researchers who collect such social network data often have a compelling interest in allowing others to analyze the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Ajay Prasad , G. K. Panda , A. Mitra , Arjun Singh , Deepak Gour