Differential privacy for eye tracking with temporal correlations
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Abstract
New generation head-mounted displays, such as VR and AR glasses, are coming into the market with already integrated eye tracking and are expected to enable novel ways of human-computer interaction in numerous applications. However, since eye movement properties contain biometric information, privacy concerns have to be handled properly. Privacy- preservation techniques such as differential privacy mechanisms have recently been applied to eye movement data obtained from such displays. Standard differential privacy mechanisms; however, are vulnerable due to temporal correlations between the eye movement observations. In this work, we propose a novel transform-coding based differential privacy mechanism to further adapt it to the statistics of eye movement feature data and compare various low-complexity methods. We extend the Fourier perturbation algorithm, which is a differential privacy mechanism, and correct a scaling mistake in its proof. Furthermore, we illustrate significant reductions in sample correlations in addition to query sensitivities, which provide the best utility-privacy trade-off in the eye tracking literature. Our results provide significantly high privacy without any essential loss in classification accuracies while hiding personal identifiers.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | e0255979 |
Journal | PloS one |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 8 |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 34403454 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878269 |