Poster Abstract: LLM-Piloted Visual Privacy Agent on Mobile Systems

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Yihong Hang, Hao Li, Huangxun Chen, Fengxu Yang, Zhice Yang

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 06 May 2026SenSys 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: The increasing use of camera streams on mobile systems has raised significant privacy concerns due to unauthorized visual data access by applications. Existing solutions either burden users with excessive interaction or lack semantic understanding of contextual privacy norms. This paper introduces PrivacyAgent, a novel visual privacy protection framework leveraging multimodal large language models (LLMs) to enable context-aware and fine-grained privacy control on mobile systems. PrivacyAgent intercepts camera streams via a virtualized I/O layer and restricts untrusted apps to privacy-compliant content with minimal user overhead.