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Person re-identification (ReId), a crucial task in surveillance, involves matching individuals across different camera views. The advent of Deep Learning, especially supervised techniques like Convolutional Neural Networks and Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Andrea Asperti , Salvatore Fiorilla , Simone Nardi , Lorenzo Orsini

The field of Person Re-Identification (Re-ID) has received much attention recently, driven by the progress of deep neural networks, especially for image classification. The problem of Re-ID consists in identifying individuals through images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Eduardo de O. Andrade , Igor Garcia Ballhausen Sampaio , Joris Guérin , José Viterbo

Creating anonymity means cutting connections. A common goal in this context is to prevent accountability. This prevention of accountability can be problematic, for example, if it leads to delinquents remaining undetected. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Paula Helm

We empirically investigate the camera bias of person re-identification (ReID) models. Previously, camera-aware methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they are largely confined to training domains of the models. We measure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Myungseo Song , Jin-Woo Park , Jong-Seok Lee

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images while retaining the original data distribution. We ensure total anonymization of all faces in an image by generating images exclusively on privacy-safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Håkon Hukkelås , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

Case-based explanations are an intuitive method to gain insight into the decision-making process of deep learning models in clinical contexts. However, medical images cannot be shared as explanations due to privacy concerns. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Helena Montenegro , Jaime S. Cardoso

The widespread sharing of face images on social media platforms and in large-scale datasets raises pressing privacy concerns, as biometric identifiers can be exploited without consent. Face anonymization seeks to generate realistic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Raimondo Schettini

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

Text sanitization is the task of redacting a document to mask all occurrences of (direct or indirect) personal identifiers, with the goal of concealing the identity of the individual(s) referred in it. In this paper, we consider a two-step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Anthi Papadopoulou , Pierre Lison , Mark Anderson , Lilja Øvrelid , Ildikó Pilán

There is an increasing concern in computer vision devices invading users' privacy by recording unwanted videos. On the one hand, we want the camera systems to recognize important events and assist human daily lives by understanding its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee , Michael S. Ryoo

We propose a novel method that leverages 3D information to automatically anonymize multi-view RGB-D video recordings of operating rooms (OR). Our anonymization method preserves the original data distribution by replacing the faces in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tony Danjun Wang

While de-identification models can help conceal the identity of the individuals mentioned in a document, they fail to address linkage risks, defined as the potential to map the de-identified text back to its source. One straightforward way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Pierre Lison , Mark Anderson

Many tracking companies collect user data and sell it to data markets and advertisers. While they claim to protect user privacy by anonymizing the data, our research reveals that significant privacy risks persist even with anonymized data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ruisheng Shi , Zhiyuan Peng , Tong Fu , Lina Lan , Qin Wang , Jiaqi Zeng

Data collected nowadays by social-networking applications create fascinating opportunities for building novel services, as well as expanding our understanding about social structures and their dynamics. Unfortunately, publishing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Boldi , Francesco Bonchi , Aris Gionis , Tamir Tassa

Although the performance of person re-identification (Re-ID) has been much improved by using sophisticated training methods and large-scale labelled datasets, many existing methods make the impractical assumption that information of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Masato Tamura , Tomokazu Murakami

There has recently been an increased scientific interest in the de-anonymization of users in anonymized databases containing user-level microdata via multifarious matching strategies utilizing publicly available correlated data. Existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Serhat Bakirtas , Elza Erkip

The widespread deployment of surveillance cameras for facial recognition gives rise to many privacy concerns. This study proposes a privacy-friendly alternative to large scale facial recognition. While there are multiple techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Sanitizing sensitive text data typically involves removing personally identifiable information (PII) or generating synthetic data under the assumption that these methods adequately protect privacy; however, their effectiveness is often only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rui Xin , Niloofar Mireshghallah , Shuyue Stella Li , Michael Duan , Hyunwoo Kim , Yejin Choi , Yulia Tsvetkov , Sewoong Oh , Pang Wei Koh

We propose an authentication scheme where forgery (a.k.a. impersonation) seems infeasible without finding the prover's long-term private key. The latter would follow from solving the conjugacy search problem in the platform (noncommutative)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-10-26 Dima Grigoriev , Vladimir Shpilrain