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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

While convenient in daily life, face recognition technologies also raise privacy concerns for regular users on the social media since they could be used to analyze face images and videos, efficiently and surreptitiously without any security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yaoyao Zhong , Weihong Deng

Face images are a rich source of information that can be used to identify individuals and infer private information about them. To mitigate this privacy risk, anonymizations employ transformations on clear images to obfuscate sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Julian Todt , Simon Hanisch , Thorsten Strufe

In an era where personal photos are easily leaked and collected, face de-identification is a crucial method for protecting identity privacy. However, current face de-identification techniques face challenges in preserving attribute details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Xin Wei , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

A face image not only provides details about the identity of a subject but also reveals several attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. Advancements in machine learning algorithms and popularity of sharing images on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Saheb Chhabra , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Gaurav Gupta

The unprecedented capture and application of face images raise increasing concerns on anonymization to fight against privacy disclosure. Most existing methods may suffer from the problem of excessive change of the identity-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhenzhong Kuang , Xiaochen Yang , Yingjie Shen , Chao Hu , Jun Yu

In response to rising societal awareness of privacy concerns, face anonymization techniques have advanced, including the emergence of face-swapping methods that replace one identity with another. Achieving a balance between anonymity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Haruka Kumagai , Leslie Wöhler , Satoshi Ikehata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Face deidentification is an active topic amongst privacy and security researchers. Early deidentification methods relying on image blurring or pixelization were replaced in recent years with techniques based on formal anonymity models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Blaž Meden , Refik Can Mallı , Sebastjan Fabijan , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

Face obfuscation (blurring, mosaicing, etc.) has been shown to be effective for privacy protection; nevertheless, object recognition research typically assumes access to complete, unobfuscated images. In this paper, we explore the effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kaiyu Yang , Jacqueline Yau , Li Fei-Fei , Jia Deng , Olga Russakovsky

Face de-identification has become increasingly important as the image sources are explosively growing and easily accessible. The advance of new face recognition techniques also arises people's concern regarding the privacy leakage. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yifan Wu , Fan Yang , Haibin Ling

Online users often post facial images of themselves and other people on online social networks (OSNs) and other Web 2.0 platforms, which can lead to potential privacy leakage of people whose faces are included in such images. There is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuqi Niu , Weidong Qiu , Peng Tang , Lifan Wang , Shuo Chen , Shujun Li , Nadin Kokciyan , Ben Niu

The success of deep learning based face recognition systems has given rise to serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Face privacy-preserving is one of the hotspots that arises dramatic interests of research. However, the existing face privacy-preserving methods aim at causing the missing of semantic information of face and cannot preserve the reusability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yang Yang , Yiyang Huang , Ming Shi , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

Face images are rich data items that are useful and can easily be collected in many applications, such as in 1-to-1 face verification tasks in the domain of security and surveillance systems. Multiple methods have been proposed to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Yasin N. Silva , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

As we shift more of our lives into the virtual domain, the volume of data shared on the web keeps increasing and presents a threat to our privacy. This works contributes to the understanding of privacy implications of such data sharing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Advances in deep learning algorithms have enabled better-than-human performance on face recognition tasks. In parallel, private companies have been scraping social media and other public websites that tie photos to identities and have built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Ivan Evtimov , Pascal Sturmfels , Tadayoshi Kohno

With the advent of social media, fun selfie filters have come into tremendous mainstream use affecting the functioning of facial biometric systems as well as image recognition systems. These filters vary from beautification filters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shubham Tiwari , Yash Sethia , Ritesh Kumar , Ashwani Tanwar , Rudresh Dwivedi

The growing use of portrait images in computer vision highlights the need to protect personal identities. At the same time, anonymized images must remain useful for downstream computer vision tasks. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Guoying Zhao

The recent rapid advancements in both sensing and machine learning technologies have given rise to the universal collection and utilization of people's biometrics, such as fingerprints, voices, retina/facial scans, or gait/motion/gestures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chun-Fu Chen , Bill Moriarty , Shaohan Hu , Sean Moran , Marco Pistoia , Vincenzo Piuri , Pierangela Samarati