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The modern surge in camera usage alongside widespread computer vision technology applications poses significant privacy and security concerns. Current artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aid in recognizing relevant events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jhon Lopez , Carlos Hinojosa , Henry Arguello , Bernard Ghanem

Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) stands as a promising solution for cloud-based inference applications. In this setting, the cloud has a pre-learned model whereas the user has samples on which she wants to run the model. The biggest…

Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as one of data science's most transformative and influential domains. However, the widespread adoption of ML introduces privacy-related concerns owing to the increasing number of malicious attacks targeting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Eugene Frimpong , Khoa Nguyen , Mindaugas Budzys , Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) has become increasingly important in applications where sensitive data must remain confidential. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables computation directly on encrypted data, allowing neural network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nges Brian Njungle , Eric Jahns , Michel A. Kinsy

Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the torus (TFHE) enables computation on encrypted data without decryption, making it a cornerstone of secure and confidential computing. Despite its potential in privacy preserving machine learning, secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mayank Kumar , Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

There is an urgent demand for privacy-preserving techniques capable of supporting compute and data intensive (CDI) computing in the era of big data. However, none of existing TEEs can truly support CDI computing tasks, as CDI requires high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jianping Zhu , Rui Hou , XiaoFeng Wang , Wenhao Wang , Jiangfeng Cao , Lutan Zhao , Fengkai Yuan , Peinan Li , Zhongpu Wang , Boyan Zhao , Lixin Zhang , Dan Meng

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data without decryption, allowing a great opportunity for privacy-preserving computation. In particular, domains such as healthcare, finance, and government, where data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Matías Mazzanti , Esteban Mocskos , Augusto Vega , Pradip Bose

The distinctiveness of the human iris has been measured by first extracting a set of features from the iris, an encoding, and then comparing these encoded feature sets to determine how distinct they are from one another. For example, John…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 J. Michael Rozmus

Non-invasive, efficient, physical token-less, accurate and stable identification methods for newborns may prevent baby swapping at birth, limit baby abductions and improve post-natal health monitoring across geographies, within the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rasel Ahmed Bhuiyan , Mateusz Trokielewicz , Piotr Maciejewicz , Sherri Bucher , Adam Czajka

Word-wise Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes, such as CKKS, are gaining significant traction due to their ability to provide post-quantum-resistant, privacy-preserving approximate computing; an especially desirable feature in…

Iris is one of the popular biometrics that is widely used for identity authentication. Different features have been used to perform iris recognition in the past. Most of them are based on hand-crafted features designed by biometrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi , Yao Wang

One way of investigating how genes affect human traits would be with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genetic markers, known as single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), are used in GWAS. This raises privacy and security concerns as…

Applications · Statistics 2019-08-02 Jun Jie Sim , Fook Mun Chan , Shibin Chen , Benjamin Hong Meng Tan , Khin Mi Mi Aung

Pairing-based inner product functional encryption provides an efficient theoretical construction for privacy-preserving edge computing secured by widely deployed elliptic curve cryptography. In this work, an efficient software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Utsav Banerjee

New cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption (HE) allow computations to be outsourced to and evaluated blindfolded in a resourceful cloud. These computations often require private data owned by multiple participants, engaging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Asma Aloufi , Peizhao Hu , Yongsoo Song , Kristin Lauter

Biometrics systems have significantly improved person identification and authentication, playing an important role in personal, national, and global security. However, these systems might be deceived (or "spoofed") and, despite the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 David Menotti , Giovani Chiachia , Allan Pinto , William Robson Schwartz , Helio Pedrini , Alexandre Xavier Falcao , Anderson Rocha

Objective - This study presents a biometric identification method based on topological invariants from 2D iris images, representing iris texture via formally defined digital homology and evaluating classification performance. Methods - Each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ahmet Öztel , İsmet Karaca

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) relies heavily on the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT), making NTT a major performance bottleneck due to its intensive polynomial computations. Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE), which integrates…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hang Gu , Teng Wang , Qianyu Cheng , Jinao Li , Zhendong Zheng , Lei Gong , Wenqi Lou , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

Human users have a tough time remembering long cryptographic keys. Hence, researchers, for so long, have been examining ways to utilize biometric features of the user instead of a memorable password or passphrase, in an effort to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-02-15 A. Jagadeesan , K. Duraiswamy

Iris recognition technology plays a critical role in biometric identification systems, but their performance can be affected by variations in iris pigmentation. In this work, we investigate the impact of iris pigmentation on the efficacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Geetanjali Sharma , Abhishek Tandon , Gaurav Jaswal , Aditya Nigam , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Human users have a tough time remembering long cryptographic keys. Hence, researchers, for so long, have been examining ways to utilize biometric features of the user instead of a memorable password or passphrase, in an effort to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-03-09 A. Jagadeesan , K. Duraiswamy