Towards Privacy-preserving and Practical Image-centric Social Discovery

 Towards Privacy-preserving and Practical Image-centric Social Discovery

 Images are becoming one of the key enablers of user connectivity in social media applications. Many of them are directly exploring image content to suggest new friends with similar interests. To handle the explosive volumes of images, one common trend is to leverage the public cloud as their robust service backend. Despite the convenience, exposing content-rich images to the cloud inevitably raises acute privacy concerns.