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arxiv: 2605.05692 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-07 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.CR

CFE-PPAR: Compression-friendly encryption for privacy-preserving action recognition leveraging video transformers

Haiwei Lin , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-08 15:09 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV cs.AIcs.CR
keywords cfe-pparmethodsrecognitioncompression-friendlyencryptionpparvideovideos
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CFE-PPAR is a compression-friendly encryption scheme for privacy-preserving action recognition that lets video transformers process encrypted videos directly using key-transformed parameters.

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Privacy-preserving action recognition allows computers to identify human activities in videos without exposing the actual visual content. Encryption is one way to achieve this privacy, but previous encryption techniques cause big problems when the videos are compressed using common standards like JPEG or H.264, which is necessary for efficient storage and sharing. The new CFE-PPAR method solves this by designing the encryption so that it works well with compression. It uses a video transformer, a type of AI model good at understanding video sequences, but modifies the model's parameters using the same secret key that encrypts the video. This way, the model can process the encrypted compressed video directly and still recognize the actions correctly. Tests on two popular datasets, UCF101 and HMDB51, showed better results than older methods when compression was applied.

Core claim

In CFE-PPAR, videos encrypted with secret keys can be directly recognized by a video transformer, which uses parameters transformed by the same keys as those used for video encryption.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that transforming the video transformer parameters with the encryption keys allows accurate recognition without significant performance loss, and that this works under compression.

read the original abstract

Privacy-preserving action recognition (PPAR) enables machines to understand human activities in videos without revealing sensitive visual content. Among the various strategies for PPAR, encryption-based methods achieve strong privacy protection while maintaining high recognition performance. However, these methods lead to a catastrophic decrease in recognition performance and visual quality when the encrypted videos are compressed. That is, the previous methods are not compression-friendly. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose the first compression-friendly encryption method for PPAR, called CFE-PPAR. In CFE-PPAR, videos encrypted with secret keys can be directly recognized by a video transformer, which uses parameters transformed by the same keys as those used for video encryption. In experiments, it is verified that CFE-PPAR outperforms previous methods on the UCF101 and HMDB51 datasets under Motion-JPEG and H.264 compression.

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Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides no specific details on parameters, assumptions, or new entities; the method appears to build on existing video transformers and encryption techniques.

free parameters (1)
  • encryption key
    Secret key used for both encryption and parameter transformation; its specific generation or properties not detailed in abstract.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Video transformers can maintain recognition performance when parameters are transformed according to encryption keys
    This is the core assumption enabling direct recognition on encrypted videos.

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