P3: Toward Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing
Moo-Ryong Ra, Ramesh Govindan, and Antonio Ortega

TL;DR
P3 introduces a privacy-preserving photo sharing method that encrypts a key photo component, reducing recognition accuracy while enabling server-side transformations, compatible with existing services like Facebook.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel photo encoding algorithm that enhances privacy without altering current sharing platforms or mobile apps.
Findings
Reduces automated recognition accuracy on public photo parts
Enables server-side image transformations for bandwidth efficiency
Requires minimal storage overhead
Abstract
With increasing use of mobile devices, photo sharing services are experiencing greater popularity. Aside from providing storage, photo sharing services enable bandwidth-efficient downloads to mobile devices by performing server-side image transformations (resizing, cropping). On the flip side, photo sharing services have raised privacy concerns such as leakage of photos to unauthorized viewers and the use of algorithmic recognition technologies by providers. To address these concerns, we propose a privacy-preserving photo encoding algorithm that extracts and encrypts a small, but significant, component of the photo, while preserving the remainder in a public, standards-compatible, part. These two components can be separately stored. This technique significantly reduces the signal-to-noise ratio and the accuracy of automated detection and recognition on the public part, while preserving…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques · Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods · Face recognition and analysis
