An Effective Federated Object Detection Framework with Dynamic Differential Privacy

Baoping Wang, Duanyang Feng, Junyu Su () and Shiyang Song
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Baoping Wang: Academy of Management, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan 523083, China
Duanyang Feng: Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
Junyu Su: Faculty of Art and Communication, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Shiyang Song: Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 14, 1-18

Abstract: The proliferation of data across multiple domains necessitates the adoption of machine learning models that respect user privacy and data security, particularly in sensitive scenarios like surveillance and medical imaging. Federated learning (FL) offers a promising solution by decentralizing the learning process, allowing multiple participants to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. However, when applied to complex tasks such as object detection, standard FL frameworks can fall short in balancing the dual demands of high accuracy and stringent privacy. This paper introduces a sophisticated federated object detection framework that incorporates advanced differential privacy mechanisms to enhance privacy protection. Our framework is designed to work effectively across heterogeneous and potentially large-scale datasets, characteristic of real-world environments. It integrates a novel adaptive differential privacy model that strategically adjusts the noise scale during the training process based on the sensitivity of the features being learned and the progression of the model’s accuracy. We present a detailed methodology that includes a privacy budget management system, which optimally allocates and tracks privacy expenditure throughout training cycles. Additionally, our approach employs a hybrid model aggregation technique that not only ensures robust privacy guarantees but also mitigates the degradation of object detection performance typically associated with DP. The effectiveness of our framework is demonstrated through extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets, including COCO and PASCAL VOC. Our results show that our framework not only adheres to strict DP standards but also achieves near-state-of-the-art object detection performance, underscoring its practical applicability. For example, in some settings, our method can lower the privacy success rate by 40% while maintaining high model accuracy. This study makes significant strides in advancing the field of privacy-preserving machine learning, especially in applications where user privacy cannot be compromised. The proposed framework sets a new benchmark for implementing federated learning in complex, privacy-sensitive tasks and opens avenues for future research in secure, decentralized machine learning technologies.

Keywords: privacy protection; machine learning; federated learning; objective detection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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