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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

Deep learning has been successfully appertained to solve various complex problems in the area of big data analytics to computer vision. A deep learning-powered application recently emerged is Deep Fake. It helps to create fake images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jatin Sharma , Sahil Sharma

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

The increasingly pervasive facial recognition (FR) systems raise serious concerns about personal privacy, especially for billions of users who have publicly shared their photos on social media. Several attempts have been made to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Zhongliang Guo , Yuxiang Guo , Zhaoyang Wang , Rama Chellappa

Face recognition systems are robust against environmental changes and noise, and thus may be vulnerable to illegal authentication attempts using user face photos, such as spoofing attacks. To prevent such spoofing attacks, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shota Iwamatsu , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

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

Generative models can reconstruct face images from encoded representations (templates) bearing remarkable likeness to the original face, raising security and privacy concerns. We present \textsc{FaceCloak}, a neural network framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sudipta Banerjee , Anubhav Jain , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

Face recognition, as one of the most successful applications in artificial intelligence, has been widely used in security, administration, advertising, and healthcare. However, the privacy issues of public face datasets have attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Kai Wang , Bo Zhao , Xiangyu Peng , Zheng Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Xinchao Wang , Hakan Bilen , Yang You

Personalized text-to-image models allow users to generate images of new concepts from several reference photos, thereby leading to critical concerns regarding civil privacy. Although several anti-personalization techniques have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Qianrui Teng , Xing Cui , Xuannan Liu , Peipei Li , Zekun Li , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

After decades of study, automatic face detection and recognition systems are now accurate and widespread. Naturally, this means users who wish to avoid automatic recognition are becoming less able to do so. Where do we stand in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Michael J. Wilber , Vitaly Shmatikov , Serge Belongie

The rapid advancement in deep learning makes the differentiation of authentic and manipulated facial images and video clips unprecedentedly harder. The underlying technology of manipulating facial appearances through deep generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sm Zobaed , Md Fazle Rabby , Md Istiaq Hossain , Ekram Hossain , Sazib Hasan , Asif Karim , Khan Md. Hasib

Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is amplified by the increasing realism of modern generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Victor Livernoche , Akshatha Arodi , Andreea Musulan , Zachary Yang , Adam Salvail , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany

Deep learning models are being integrated into a wide range of high-impact, security-critical systems, from self-driving cars to medical diagnosis. However, recent research has demonstrated that many of these deep learning architectures are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Scott Freitas , Shang-Tse Chen , Zijie J. Wang , Duen Horng Chau

Face recognition is a popular form of biometric authentication and due to its widespread use, attacks have become more common as well. Recent studies show that Face Recognition Systems are vulnerable to attacks and can lead to erroneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sanjay Saha , Terence Sim

Deepfakes pose severe threats of visual misinformation to our society. One representative deepfake application is face manipulation that modifies a victim's facial attributes in an image, e.g., changing her age or hair color. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zheng Li , Ning Yu , Ahmed Salem , Michael Backes , Mario Fritz , Yang Zhang

Deepfake represents a category of face-swapping attacks that leverage machine learning models such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks. Although the concept of the face-swapping is not new, its recent technical advances make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chaofei Yang , Lei Ding , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

Recent years have seen fast development in synthesizing realistic human faces using AI technologies. Such fake faces can be weaponized to cause negative personal and social impact. In this work, we develop technologies to defend individuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Yuezun Li , Xin Yang , Baoyuan Wu , Siwei Lyu

The modern surge in camera usage alongside widespread computer vision technology applications poses significant privacy and security concerns. Current artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aid in recognizing relevant events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jhon Lopez , Carlos Hinojosa , Henry Arguello , Bernard Ghanem

Face recognition (FR) can be abused for privacy intrusion. Governments, private companies, or even individual attackers can collect facial images by web scraping to build an FR system identifying human faces without their consent. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ka-Ho Chow , Sihao Hu , Tiansheng Huang , Ling Liu