Beyond Classification: Task-Dependent Learnability under Privacy-Motivated Image Transformations
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arXiv:2608.27066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in computer vision often rely on noise or image perturbations to protect visual data while securely processing it, creating a trade-off between task performance and protection. This trade-off is commonly evaluated using image classification, which primarily captures semantic separability and remains robust despite significant geometric, spatial layout or local boundary alterations. As a result, it is too simplistic as a proxy for generic vision tasks. Exhaustive downstream-task evaluation, however, is compu
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- arXiv:2608.27066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in computer vision often rely on noise or image perturbations to protect visual data while securely processing it, creating a trade-off between task performance and protection.
- This trade-off is commonly evaluated using image classification, which primarily captures semantic separability and remains robust despite significant geometric, spatial layout or local boundary alterations.
- As a result, it is too simplistic as a proxy for generic vision tasks.
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