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As image processing systems proliferate, privacy concerns intensify given the sensitive personal information contained in images. This paper examines privacy challenges in image processing and surveys emerging privacy-preserving techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Maneesha , Bharat Gupta , Rishabh Sethi , Charvi Adita Das

Differential privacy schemes have been widely adopted in recent years to address issues of data privacy protection. We propose a new Gaussian scheme combining with another data protection technique, called random orthogonal matrix masking,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu , Guanhong Miao , Shigang Chen

Online person re-identification services face privacy breaches from potential data leakage and recovery attacks, exposing cloud-stored images to malicious attackers and triggering public concern. The privacy protection of pedestrian images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Delong Zhang , Yi-Xing Peng , Xiao-Ming Wu , Ancong Wu , Wei-Shi Zheng

We consider the privacy problem of statistical estimation from distributed data, where users communicate to a central processor over a Gaussian multiple-access channel(MAC). To avoid the inevitable sacrifice of data utility for privacy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenhao Zhan

In spite of the legal advances in personal data protection, the issue of private data being misused by unauthorized entities is still of utmost importance. To prevent this, Privacy by Design is often proposed as a solution for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Marcela Carvalho , Oussama Ennaffi , Sylvain Chateau , Samy Ait Bachir

Many privacy mechanisms reveal high-level information about a data distribution through noisy measurements. It is common to use this information to estimate the answers to new queries. In this work, we provide an approach to solve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ryan McKenna , Daniel Sheldon , Gerome Miklau

The framework of differential privacy protects an individual's privacy while publishing query responses on congregated data. In this work, a new noise addition mechanism for differential privacy is introduced where the noise added is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gokularam Muthukrishnan , Sheetal Kalyani

Anonymization techniques based on obfuscating the quasi-identifiers by means of value generalization hierarchies are widely used to achieve preset levels of privacy. To prevent different types of attacks against database privacy it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and deep learning, medical image analysis has become a critical tool in modern healthcare, significantly improving diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. However, AI-based methods also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yanming Zhu , Xuefei Yin , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Hui Tian

The remarkable success of machine learning has fostered a growing number of cloud-based intelligent services for mobile users. Such a service requires a user to send data, e.g. image, voice and video, to the provider, which presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Sicong Liu , Junzhao Du , Anshumali Shrivastava , Lin Zhong

Machine learning models require datasets for effective training, but directly sharing raw data poses significant privacy risk such as membership inference attacks (MIA). To mitigate the risk, privacy-preserving techniques such as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Yin , Guangquan Zhang , Hua Zuo , Jie Lu

Massive human-related data is collected to train neural networks for computer vision tasks. A major conflict is exposed relating to software engineers between better developing AI systems and distancing from the sensitive training data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Fusheng Hao , Fengxiang He , Yikai Wang , Fuxiang Wu , Jing Zhang , Jun Cheng , Dacheng Tao

With the growing use of camera devices, the industry has many image datasets that provide more opportunities for collaboration between the machine learning community and industry. However, the sensitive information in the datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jia-Wei Chen , Li-Ju Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Chun-Shien Lu

The iterative Bayesian update (IBU) and the matrix inversion (INV) are the main methods to retrieve the original distribution from noisy data resulting from the application of privacy protection mechanisms. We show that the theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Ehab ElSalamouny , Catuscia Palamidessi

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Differential privacy provides a rigorous framework to quantify data privacy, and has received considerable interest recently. A randomized mechanism satisfying $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy (DP) roughly means that, except with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Jun Zhao , Teng Wang , Tao Bai , Kwok-Yan Lam , Zhiying Xu , Shuyu Shi , Xuebin Ren , Xinyu Yang , Yang Liu , Han Yu

Recordings in everyday life require privacy preservation of the speech content and speaker identity. This contribution explores the influence of noise and reverberation on the trade-off between privacy and utility for low-cost…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Jule Pohlhausen , Francesco Nespoli , Joerg Bitzer

Credit risk modeling has permeated our everyday life. Most banks and financial companies use this technique to model their clients' trustworthiness. While machine learning is increasingly used in this field, the resulting large-scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yuli Zheng , Zhenyu Wu , Ye Yuan , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

In this paper, we propose a reversible data hiding method in the spatial domain for compressed grayscale images. The proposed method embeds secret bits into a compressed thumbnail of the original image by using a novel interpolation method…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Andrew Rudder , Wayne Goodridge , Shareeda Mohammed

Protecting the privacy of data-sets has become hugely important these days. Many real-life data-sets like income data, medical data need to be secured before making it public. However, security comes at the cost of losing some useful…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-16 Debolina Ghatak , Bimak K Roy