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Face verification is a well-known image analysis application and is widely used to recognize individuals in contemporary society. However, most real-world recognition systems ignore the importance of protecting the identity-sensitive facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Huan-Chih Wang , Ja-Ling Wu

When neural network model and data are outsourced to cloud server for inference, it is desired to preserve the confidentiality of model and data as the involved parties (i.e., cloud server, model providing client and data providing client)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Pinglan Liu , Wensheng Zhang

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is seeing increasing real-world deployment to protect data in use by allowing computation over encrypted data. However, the same malleability that enables homomorphic computations also raises integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Alexander Viand , Christian Knabenhans , Anwar Hithnawi

With the expansion of cloud services, serious concerns about the privacy of users' data arise due to the exposure of the unencrypted data to the server during computation. Various security primitives are under investigation to preserve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhehong Wang , Dennis Sylvester , Hun-Seok Kim , David Blaauw

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is an emerging encryption scheme that allows computations to be performed directly on encrypted messages. This property provides promising applications such as privacy-preserving deep learning and cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yujia Zhai , Mohannad Ibrahim , Yiqin Qiu , Fabian Boemer , Zizhong Chen , Alexey Titov , Alexander Lyashevsky

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training while keeping sensitive data on clients' devices, but local model updates can still leak private information. Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE) has recently been applied to FL to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ivan Costa , Pedro Correia , Ivone Amorim , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

With the rapid increase in cloud computing, concerns surrounding data privacy, security, and confidentiality also have been increased significantly. Not only cloud providers are susceptible to internal and external hacks, but also in some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-27 M. Sadegh Riazi , Kim Laine , Blake Pelton , Wei Dai

This paper proposes a framework for a privacy-safe iris presentation attack detection (PAD) method, designed solely with synthetically-generated, identity-leakage-free iris images. Once trained, the method is evaluated in a classical way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mahsa Mitcheff , Patrick Tinsley , Adam Czajka

We present a method to search for a probe (or query) image representation against a large gallery in the encrypted domain. We require that the probe and gallery images be represented in terms of a fixed-length representation, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Joshua J. Engelsma , Anil K. Jain , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows a third party to perform arbitrary computations on encrypted data, learning neither the inputs nor the computation results. Hence, it provides resilience in situations where computations are carried…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Alexander Viand , Patrick Jattke , Anwar Hithnawi

Homomorphic encryption (HE) has found extensive utilization in federated learning (FL) systems, capitalizing on its dual advantages: (i) ensuring the confidentiality of shared models contributed by participating entities, and (ii) enabling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Dongfang Zhao

Machine Learning (ML) has become one of the most impactful fields of data science in recent years. However, a significant concern with ML is its privacy risks due to rising attacks against ML models. Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Khoa Nguyen , Mindaugas Budzys , Eugene Frimpong , Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

Biometric methods based on iris images are believed to allow very high accuracy, and there has been an explosion of interest in iris biometrics in recent years. In this paper, we use the Scale Invariant Feature Transformation (SIFT) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Pedro Tome-Gonzalez , Virginia Ruiz-Albacete , Javier Ortega-Garcia

This paper explores the use of partially homomorphic encryption (PHE) for encrypted vector similarity search, with a focus on facial recognition and broader applications like reverse image search, recommendation engines, and large language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sefik Serengil , Alper Ozpinar

Homomorphic encryption (HE) offers data confidentiality by executing queries directly on encrypted fields in the database-as-a-service (DaaS) paradigm. While fully HE exhibits great expressiveness but prohibitive performance overhead, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dongfang Zhao

Secure signal processing is becoming a de facto model for preserving privacy. We propose a model based on the Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technique to mitigate security breaches. Our framework provides a method to perform a Fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows secure computation on encrypted data without revealing the original data, providing significant benefits for privacy-sensitive applications. Many cloud computing applications (e.g., DNA read mapping,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Mayank Kabra , Rakesh Nadig , Harshita Gupta , Rahul Bera , Manos Frouzakis , Vamanan Arulchelvan , Yu Liang , Haiyu Mao , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Onur Mutlu

Leveraging parallel hardware (e.g. GPUs) for deep neural network (DNN) training brings high computing performance. However, it raises data privacy concerns as GPUs lack a trusted environment to protect the data. Trusted execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yue Niu , Ramy E. Ali , Salman Avestimehr

Face recognition technology has been deployed in various real-life applications. The most sophisticated deep learning-based face recognition systems rely on training millions of face images through complex deep neural networks to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dong Han , Yong Li , Joachim Denzler

The use of Neural Networks (NNs) for sensitive data processing is becoming increasingly popular, raising concerns about data privacy and security. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has the potential to be used as a solution to preserve data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Ivone Amorim , Eva Maia , Pedro Barbosa , Isabel Praça