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We propose a reversible face de-identification method for low resolution video data, where landmark-based techniques cannot be reliably used. Our solution is able to generate a photo realistic de-identified stream that meets the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Hugo Proença

Image sharing on online social networks (OSNs) has become an indispensable part of daily social activities, but it has also led to an increased risk of privacy invasion. The recent image leaks from popular OSN services and the abuse of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chi Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Jun Zhang , Wanlei Zhou

Photos of faces uploaded online are vulnerable to malicious actors who can scrape facial images from online sources and intrude on personal privacy via unauthorized use of facial recognition models. This paper presents FaceCloak, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zachary Yahn , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Selim Tekin , Sihao Hu , Yichang Xu , Margaret Loper , Ling Liu

This work proposes a novel privacy-preserving neural network feature representation to suppress the sensitive information of a learned space while maintaining the utility of the data. The new international regulation for personal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana

Soft-biometric privacy-enhancing techniques represent machine learning methods that aim to: (i) mitigate privacy concerns associated with face recognition technology by suppressing selected soft-biometric attributes in facial images (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Peter Rot , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

To sanitize specific concepts from imagery and text, privacy mechanisms with formal guarantees are often eschewed in practice in favor of more intuitive techniques. AI-based sanitization is poised to grow in popularity because it can work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 George Bissias , Eugene Bagdasarian , Brian Neil Levine

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

While the rapid development of facial recognition algorithms has enabled numerous beneficial applications, their widespread deployment has raised significant concerns about the risks of mass surveillance and threats to individual privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Paweł Borsukiewicz , Daniele Lunghi , Melissa Tessa , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

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

As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging. We propose a new hybrid approach to obfuscate identities in photos by head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Qianru Sun , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Mario Fritz , Christian Theobalt , Bernt Schiele

The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often produce visible artifacts compromising user experience. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

As billions of personal data being shared through social media and network, the data privacy and security have drawn an increasing attention. Several attempts have been made to alleviate the leakage of identity information from face photos,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Hui Xue

Recent advances in generative image editing have enabled transformative applications, from professional head shot generation to avatar stylization. However, these systems often require uploading high-fidelity facial images to third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dipesh Tamboli , Vineet Punyamoorty , Atharv Pawar , Vaneet Aggarwal

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

In this work, we study the privacy risk due to profile matching across online social networks (OSNs), in which anonymous profiles of OSN users are matched to their real identities using auxiliary information about them. We consider…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Anisa Halimi , Erman Ayday

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

The lack of a common platform and benchmark datasets for evaluating face obfuscation methods has been a challenge, with every method being tested using arbitrary experiments, datasets, and metrics. While prior work has demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi , Poojitha Thota , Mohit Singhal , Abolfazl Asudeh , Gautam Das , Shirin Nilizadeh

Personal photos of individuals when shared online, apart from exhibiting a myriad of memorable details, also reveals a wide range of private information and potentially entails privacy risks (e.g., online harassment, tracking). To mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hui-Po Wang , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Ensuring the ethical use of video data involving human subjects, particularly infants, requires robust anonymization methods. We propose BLANKET (Baby-face Landmark-preserving ANonymization with Keypoint dEtection consisTency), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ditmar Hadera , Jan Cech , Miroslav Purkrabek , Matej Hoffmann