Recoverable Anonymization for Pose Estimation: A Privacy-Enhancing Approach
Abstract
Human pose estimation (HPE) is crucial for various applications. However, deploying HPE algorithms in surveillance contexts raises significant privacy concerns due to the potential leakage of sensitive personal information (SPI) such as facial features, and ethnicity. Existing privacy-enhancing methods often compromise either privacy or performance, or they require costly additional modalities. We propose a novel privacy-enhancing system that generates privacy-enhanced portraits while maintaining high HPE performance. Our key innovations include the reversible recovery of SPI for authorized personnel and the preservation of contextual information. By jointly optimizing a privacy-enhancing module, a privacy recovery module, and a pose estimator, our system ensures robust privacy protection, efficient SPI recovery, and high-performance HPE. Experimental results demonstrate the system's robust performance in privacy enhancement, SPI recovery, and HPE.
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@article{arxiv.2409.02715,
title = {Recoverable Anonymization for Pose Estimation: A Privacy-Enhancing Approach},
author = {Wenjun Huang and Yang Ni and Arghavan Rezvani and SungHeon Jeong and Hanning Chen and Yezi Liu and Fei Wen and Mohsen Imani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02715},
year = {2024}
}