Patch-Based Privacy Preserving Neural Network for Vision Tasks

Mitsuhiro Mabuchi, Tetsuya Ishikawa; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023, pp. 1550-1559

Abstract


As machine learning technology is increasingly adopted into a variety of application domains, the potential risks of data leakage are becoming more serious in certain cases where the data contains highly sensitive information. While some privacy-preserving learning mechanisms for image data, such as SplitNN, enable the training of models without sharing private data on a central server, there exists a trade-off between security and computational cost to a client device. We propose a new mechanism to achieve higher level security and lower computational cost on a client device while maintaining model performance. Our approach, called Patch SplitNN, is based on SplitNN architecture that divides a CNN into two networks, called upper and lower. The difference from that previous work is to input individual image patches into multiple upper models, before concatenating their outputs before the lower model. For further improvement of the upper model training, we introduce an additional network and a loss function into the training process. We demonstrate our Patch SplitNN can classify images as accurately as a ResNet18 on various image classification datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and PCam) under multiple conditions (e.g. patching patterns, dropping patches).

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@InProceedings{Mabuchi_2023_WACV, author = {Mabuchi, Mitsuhiro and Ishikawa, Tetsuya}, title = {Patch-Based Privacy Preserving Neural Network for Vision Tasks}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, month = {January}, year = {2023}, pages = {1550-1559} }