We present a novel privacy-preserving scheme for deep neural networks (DNNs)
that enables us not to only apply images without visual information to DNNs for
both training and testing but to also consider data augmentation in the
encrypted domain for the first time. In this paper, a novel pixel-based image
encryption method is first proposed for privacy-preserving DNNs. In addition, a
novel adaptation network is considered that reduces the influence of image
encryption. In an experiment, the proposed method is applied to a well-known
network, ResNet-18, for image classification. The experimental results
demonstrate that conventional privacy-preserving machine learning methods
including the state-of-the-arts cannot be applied to data augmentation in the
encrypted domain and that the proposed method outperforms them in terms of
classification accuracy.