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Cameras mounted on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are increasingly used for recreational photography. However, aerial photographs of public places often contain faces of bystanders thus leading to a perceived or actual violation of privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Omair Sarwar , Bernhard Rinner , Andrea Cavallaro

The rapid rise of IoT and Big Data has facilitated copious data driven applications to enhance our quality of life. However, the omnipresent and all-encompassing nature of the data collection can generate privacy concerns. Hence, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Mert Al , Semih Yagli , Sun-Yuan Kung

Automatic face recognition is a research area with high popularity. Many different face recognition algorithms have been proposed in the last thirty years of intensive research in the field. With the popularity of deep learning and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Tiago de Freitas Pereira , Dominic Schmidli , Yu Linghu , Xinyi Zhang , Sébastien Marcel , Manuel Günther

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

Recent developments in hardware, computer graphics, and AI may soon enable AR/VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) to become everyday devices like smartphones and tablets. Eye trackers within HMDs provide a special opportunity for such setups as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mengdi Wang , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

With billions of personal images being generated from social media and cameras of all sorts on a daily basis, security and privacy are unprecedentedly challenged. Although extensive attempts have been made, existing face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tao Li , Lei Lin

Face recognition service has been used in many fields and brings much convenience to people. However, once the user's facial data is transmitted to a service provider, the user will lose control of his/her private data. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yuwen Pu , Jiahao Chen , Jiayu Pan , Hao li , Diqun Yan , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji

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

As the use of facial recognition technology is expanding in different domains, ensuring its responsible use is gaining more importance. This paper conducts a comprehensive literature review of existing studies on facial recognition…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Anna Elivanova

As more and more personal photos are shared online, being able to obfuscate identities in such photos is becoming a necessity for privacy protection. People have largely resorted to blacking out or blurring head regions, but they result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Qianru Sun , Liqian Ma , Seong Joon Oh , Luc Van Gool , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Generally, privacy-enhancing face recognition systems are designed to offer permanent protection of face embeddings. Recently, so-called soft-biometric privacy-enhancement approaches have been introduced with the aim of canceling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daile Osorio-Roig , Paul A. Gerlitz , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Face recognition pipelines have been widely deployed in various mission-critical systems in trust, equitable and responsible AI applications. However, the emergence of adversarial attacks has threatened the security of the entire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuxin Cao , Yumeng Zhu , Derui Wang , Sheng Wen , Minhui Xue , Jin Lu , Hao Ge

With the continuous development of deep learning in the field of image generation models, a large number of vivid forged faces have been generated and spread on the Internet. These high-authenticity artifacts could grow into a threat to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Decheng Liu , Zhan Dang , Chunlei Peng , Yu Zheng , Shuang Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Camera sensors are increasingly being combined with machine learning to perform various tasks such as intelligent surveillance. Due to its computational complexity, most of these machine learning algorithms are offloaded to the cloud for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Sander De Coninck , Wei-Cheng Wang , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Recently, significant advancements have been made in face recognition technologies using Deep Neural Networks. As a result, companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Naver offer highly accurate commercial face recognition web services for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Shahroz Tariq , Sowon Jeon , Simon S. Woo

Face recognition is a rapidly developing and widely applied aspect of biometric technologies. Its applications are broad, ranging from law enforcement to consumer applications, and industry efficiency and monitoring solutions. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Andrew Jason Shepley

Dataset obfuscation refers to techniques in which random noise is added to the entries of a given dataset, prior to its public release, to protect against leakage of private information. In this work, dataset obfuscation under two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Mahshad Shariatnasab , Farhad Shirani , S. Sitharma Iyengar

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

Crowdsourced data used in machine learning services might carry sensitive information about attributes that users do not want to share. Various methods have been proposed to minimize the potential information leakage of sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Han Zhao , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian , Geoffrey J. Gordon

Watermarking is an essential technique for embedding an identifier (i.e., watermark message) within digital images to assert ownership and monitor unauthorized alterations. In face recognition systems, watermarking plays a pivotal role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuguang Yao , Anil Jain , Sijia Liu