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Differentially private image classification using support vector machine and differential privacy

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Senekane, Makhamisa·2019·Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction

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The ubiquity of data, including multi-media data such as images, enables easy mining and analysis of such data. However, such an analysis might involve the use of sensitive data such as medical records (including radiological images) and financial records. Privacy-preserving machine learning is an approach that is aimed at the analysis of such data in such a way that privacy is not compromised. There are various privacy-preserving data analysis approaches such as k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness and Differential Privacy (DP). Currently, DP is a golden standard of privacy-preserving data analysis due to its robustness against background knowledge attacks. In this paper, we report a scheme for privacy-preserving image classification using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and DP. SVM is chosen as a classification algorithm because unlike variants of artificial neural networks, it converges to a global optimum. SVM kernels used are linear and Radial Basis Function (RBF), while ϵ -differential privacy was the DP framework used. The proposed scheme achieved an accuracy of up to 98%. The results obtained underline the utility of using SVM and DP for privacy-preserving image classification.

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Authors
Senekane, M.
Affiliations
National University of Lesotho (LS)
Corresponding author
Senekane, Makhamisa
Venue
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-02-20
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
483-491
ISSN
2504-4990 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2916763046
Cited by
38
References
25
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
FWCI
2.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Data Security Solutions
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Keywords
differential privacy, privacy-preserving machine learning, image classification, support vector machine, medical image privacy, background knowledge attack, linear kernel, Gaussian kernel

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