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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are widely used in image generation tasks, yet the generated images are usually lack of texture details. In this paper, we propose a general framework, called Progressively Unfreezing Perceptual GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Jinxuan Sun , Yang Chen , Junyu Dong , Guoqiang Zhong

In this paper, we propose a novel attribute-guided cross-resolution (low-resolution to high-resolution) face recognition framework that leverages a coupled generative adversarial network (GAN) structure with adversarial training to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Veeru Talreja , Fariborz Taherkhani , Matthew C Valenti , Nasser M Nasrabadi

Previous work has shown that adversarial learning can be used for unsupervised monocular depth and visual odometry (VO) estimation, in which the adversarial loss and the geometric image reconstruction loss are utilized as the mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Chaoqiang Zhao , Gary G. Yen , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang

Security monitoring via ubiquitous cameras and their more extended in intelligent buildings stand to gain from advances in signal processing and machine learning. While these innovative and ground-breaking applications can be considered as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mehmet Yamac , Mete Ahishali , Nikolaos Passalis , Jenni Raitoharju , Bulent Sankur , Moncef Gabbouj

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

Facial attractiveness enhancement has been an interesting application in Computer Vision and Graphics over these years. It aims to generate a more attractive face via manipulations on image and geometry structure while preserving face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jingwu He , Chuan Wang , Yang Zhang , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are now capable of producing synthetic face images of exceptionally high visual quality. In parallel to the development of GANs themselves, efforts have been made to develop metrics to objectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Safa Madiouni , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

3D face recognition offers a robust biometric solution by capturing facial geometry, providing resilience to variations in illumination, pose changes, and presentation attacks. Its strong spoof resistance makes it suitable for high-security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hichem Felouat , Hanrui Wang , Isao Echizen

We consider the problem of obfuscating sensitive information while preserving utility, and we propose a machine learning approach inspired by the generative adversarial networks paradigm. The idea is to set up two nets: the generator, that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Marco Romanelli , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi

Face recognition systems rely on learning highly discriminative and compact identity clusters to enable accurate retrieval. However, as with other surveillance-oriented technologies, such systems raise serious privacy concerns due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mikhail Zakharov

Recent work on image anonymization has shown that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate near-photorealistic faces to anonymize individuals. However, scaling up these networks to the entire human body has remained a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Håkon Hukkelås , Morten Smebye , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

Protecting sensitive information against data exploiting attacks is an emerging research area in data mining. Over the past, several different methods have been introduced to protect individual privacy from such attacks while maximizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Hung Nguyen , Di Zhuang , Pei-Yuan Wu , Morris Chang

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

In the past few years, the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) which proposed in 2014 has achieved great success. GAN has achieved many research results in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. Image steganography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Jia Liu , Yan Ke , Yu Lei , Zhuo Zhang , Jun Li , Peng Luo , Minqing Zhang , Xiaoyuan Yang

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

Spatiotemporal data is prevalent in a wide range of edge devices, such as those used in personal communication and financial transactions. Recent advancements have sparked a growing interest in integrating spatiotemporal analysis with…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to a natural image. This property emerges from the disentangled nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Privacy of machine learning models is one of the remaining challenges that hinder the broad adoption of Artificial Intelligent (AI). This paper considers this problem in the context of image datasets containing faces. Anonymization of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minh-Ha Le , Niklas Carlsson

Face frontalization is the process of synthesizing frontal facing views of faces given its angled poses. We implement a generative adversarial network (GAN) with spherical linear interpolation (Slerp) for frontalization of unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Wazeer Zulfikar , Sebastin Santy , Sahith Dambekodi , Tirtharaj Dash

Objectives: This research introduces a novel area-preserving Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) inversion technique for effectively de-identifying dental patient images. This innovative method addresses privacy concerns while preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mingchuan Tian , Wilson Weixun Lu , Kelvin Weng Chiong Foong , Eugene Loh