arXiv Computer Vision

Kinematics-Induced Multimodal 3D Human Pose Estimation with Subject-Level Privacy

The paper introduces a unified framework for multimodal 3D human pose estimation that fuses RGB, LiDAR, and mmWave radar data while incorporating kinematics-based sensor fusion. It presents a black-box subject membership inference attack and a pointwise maximal leakage analysis to assess privacy risks, and proposes a user-level differential privacy method called Action Temporal Stratification to mitigate these risks. The framework is evaluated on the MM-Fi dataset under three experimental protocols, with source code to be released upon acceptance.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Picture the Epsilon: Pursuing Identity-Level Privacy Guarantees for Images

The paper compares four audit methods for assessing identity‑level differential privacy in pre‑trained, black‑box face generators. Each method—GaussMech, KDE‑LR, MMD‑TV, and ROC‑HT—has distinct assumptions, hyperparameters, and finite‑sample limitations, and they produce markedly different epsilon estimates when applied to FaceFusion and InstantID. The study finds that all methods reveal significant identity distinguishability, but none can be reliably ranked in this high‑distinguishability regime, suggesting that future work should evaluate them on partially private mechanisms.

By Arman Zareian Jahromi, Vishnu Bondalakunta, Mohammad Akbar Bin Shah, Naimul Haque, Shuangqing Wei, George T. Amariucai
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Depth-Only Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation For Privacy-Preserving Robotic Applications

The paper introduces a privacy‑preserving approach to open‑vocabulary 3D semantic segmentation that operates solely on depth data, eliminating the use of RGB images to avoid disclosing scene‑specific visual information. It proposes a stricter depth‑only evaluation protocol and presents UTTO, a model‑agnostic uncertainty‑guided test‑time optimization framework that refines predictions from frozen open‑vocabulary 3D backbones using structured predictive uncertainty. Experiments on ScanNet and Matterport3D show consistent improvements, and additional analyses demonstrate the method’s relevance for privacy‑constrained robotic applications.

By Xuying Huang, Sicong Pan, Maren Bennewitz