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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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Warit Sirichotedumrong , Takahiro Maekawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

A novel algorithm for face obfuscation, called Forbes, which aims to obfuscate facial appearance recognizable by humans but preserve the identity and attributes decipherable by machines, is proposed in this paper. Forbes first applies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jintae Kim , Seungwon yang , Seong-Gyun Jeong , Chang-Su Kim

The widespread adoption of face recognition has led to increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to face images can expose sensitive personal information. This paper explores face image protection against viewing and recovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Jianqing Xu , Jun Wang , Shaoming Wang , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

The following work presents a new algorithm for character recognition from obfuscated images. The presented method is an example of a potential threat to current postal services. This paper both analyzes the efficiency of the given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Wei Wang , Emily Sallenback , Zeyu Ning , Hugues Nelson Iradukunda , Wenxi Lu , Qingquan Zhang , Ting Zhu

Steganography is an art of obscuring data inside another quotidian file of similar or varying types. Hiding data has always been of significant importance to digital forensics. Previously, steganography has been combined with cryptography…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Kartik Sharma , Ashutosh Aggarwal , Tanay Singhania , Deepak Gupta , Ashish Khanna

Rapid growth in the popularity of AR/VR/MR applications and cloud-based visual localization systems has given rise to an increased focus on the privacy of user content in the localization process. This privacy concern has been further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Kunal Chelani , Assia Benbihi , Fredrik Kahl , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

With the rapid increase in online photo sharing activities, image obfuscation algorithms become particularly important for protecting the sensitive information in the shared photos. However, existing image obfuscation methods based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sen Liu , Jianxin Lin , Zhibo Chen

Image Inpainting is one of the very popular tasks in the field of image processing with broad applications in computer vision. In various practical applications, images are often deteriorated by noise due to the presence of corrupted, lost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Harsh Patel , Amey Kulkarni , Shivam Sahni , Udit Vyas

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu

Motion blur is a fundamental problem in computer vision as it impacts image quality and hinders inference. Traditional deblurring algorithms leverage the physics of the image formation model and use hand-crafted priors: they usually produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Huaijin Chen , Jinwei Gu , Orazio Gallo , Ming-Yu Liu , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Jan Kautz

With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

When a facial image is blurred, it significantly affects high-level vision tasks such as face recognition. The purpose of facial image deblurring is to recover a clear image from a blurry input image, which can improve the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bingnan Wang , Fanjiang Xu , Quan Zheng

Image steganography is the process of concealing secret information in images through imperceptible changes. Recent work has formulated this task as a classic constrained optimization problem. In this paper, we argue that image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Xiangyu Chen , Varsha Kishore , Kilian Q Weinberger

Image decomposition is a crucial subject in the field of image processing. It can extract salient features from the source image. We propose a new image decomposition method based on convolutional neural network. This method can be applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu Fu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Detecting facial forgery images and videos is an increasingly important topic in multimedia forensics. As forgery images and videos are usually compressed into different formats such as JPEG and H264 when circulating on the Internet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Shenhao Cao , Qin Zou , Xiuqing Mao , Zhongyuan Wang

This study demonstrates a novel approach to facial camouflage that combines targeted cosmetic perturbations and alpha transparency layer manipulation to evade modern facial recognition systems. Unlike previous methods -- such as CV dazzle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 David Noever , Forrest McKee

Due to the pervasiveness of image capturing devices in every-day life, images of individuals are routinely captured. Although this has enabled many benefits, it also infringes on personal privacy. A promising direction in research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 William Croft , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Wei Shi

Large training data and expensive model tweaking are standard features of deep learning for images. As a result, data owners often utilize cloud resources to develop large-scale complex models, which raises privacy concerns. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Sagar Sharma , Yuechun Gu , Keke Chen

Deep neural networks require large amounts of resources which makes them hard to use on resource constrained devices such as Internet-of-things devices. Offloading the computations to the cloud can circumvent these constraints but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sam Leroux , Tim Verbelen , Pieter Simoens , Bart Dhoedt

Demosaicking and denoising are among the most crucial steps of modern digital camera pipelines and their joint treatment is a highly ill-posed inverse problem where at-least two-thirds of the information are missing and the rest are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Filippos Kokkinos , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis