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Deepfakes pose growing challenges to the trust of information on the Internet. Thus, detecting deepfakes has attracted increasing attentions from both academia and industry. State-of-the-art deepfake detection methods consist of two key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Currently, the rapid development of computer vision and deep learning has enabled the creation or manipulation of high-fidelity facial images and videos via deep generative approaches. This technology, also known as deepfake, has achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Lixia Ma , Puning Yang , Yuting Xu , Ziming Yang , Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang

Face Recognition systems are widely deployed in real-world applications, but they also raise privacy concerns due to unauthorized collection and misuse of facial data. Existing adversarial privacy protection methods rely on input-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiabei Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Yi Zhang

With the wide application of face recognition systems, there is rising concern that original face images could be exposed to malicious intents and consequently cause personal privacy breaches. This paper presents DuetFace, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yuxi Mi , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Hongquan Liu , Xingkun Xu , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

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

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

Current state-of-the-art deep learning based face recognition (FR) models require a large number of face identities for central training. However, due to the growing privacy awareness, it is prohibited to access the face images on user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chih-Ting Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Shao-Yi Chien , Shang-Hong Lai

Face forgery generation technologies generate vivid faces, which have raised public concerns about security and privacy. Many intelligent systems, such as electronic payment and identity verification, rely on face forgery detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zhaoyu Chen , Bo Li , Kaixun Jiang , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Wenqiang Zhang

The modern open internet contains billions of public images of human faces across the web, especially on social media websites used by half the world's population. In this context, Face Recognition (FR) systems have the potential to match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Benjamin Spetter-Goldstein , Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal

As virtual and physical identity grow increasingly intertwined, the importance of privacy and security in the online sphere becomes paramount. In recent years, multiple news stories have emerged of private companies scraping web content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Ahsi Lo , Gabriella Pangelinan , Michael C. King

Face recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated outstanding verification performance, suggesting suitability for real-world applications ranging from photo tagging in social media to automated border control (ABC). In an advanced FR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fatemeh Vakhshiteh , Ahmad Nickabadi , Raghavendra Ramachandra

The success of face recognition (FR) systems has led to serious privacy concerns due to potential unauthorized surveillance and user tracking on social networks. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to generate natural face images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Liqin Wang , Qianyue Hu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

The remarkable success of face recognition (FR) has endangered the privacy of internet users particularly in social media. Recently, researchers turned to use adversarial examples as a countermeasure. In this paper, we assess the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Mahdi Ghafourian , Julian Fierrez , Luis Felipe Gomez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Zohra Rezgui , Raymond Veldhuis

With rapid advancements in image generation technology, face swapping for privacy protection has emerged as an active area of research. The ultimate benefit is improved access to video datasets, e.g. in healthcare settings. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ethan Wilson , Frederick Shic , Jenny Skytta , Eakta Jain

We present a practical method for protecting data during the inference phase of deep learning based on bipartite topology threat modeling and an interactive adversarial deep network construction. We term this approach \emph{Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jianfeng Chi , Emmanuel Owusu , Xuwang Yin , Tong Yu , William Chan , Patrick Tague , Yuan Tian

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

Data economy relies on data-driven systems and complex machine learning applications are fueled by them. Unfortunately, however, machine learning models are exposed to fraudulent activities and adversarial attacks, which threaten their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Danele Lunghi , Alkis Simitsis , Olivier Caelen , Gianluca Bontempi

Biometric data, such as face images, are often associated with sensitive information (e.g medical, financial, personal government records). Hence, a data breach in a system storing such information can have devastating consequences. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Reena Zelenkova , Jack Swallow , M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Seyit Camtepe , Marthie Grobler , Mahathir Almashor

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Seyed Ali Osia , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ali Taheri , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamid R. Rabiee , Nicholas D. Lane , Hamed Haddadi