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Advancement of machine learning techniques, combined with the availability of large-scale datasets, has significantly improved the accuracy and efficiency of facial recognition. Modern facial recognition systems are trained using large face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ajnas Muhammed , Iurri Medvedev , Nuno Gonçalves

With increasing appealing to privacy issues in face recognition, federated learning has emerged as one of the most prevalent approaches to study the unconstrained face recognition problem with private decentralized data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yifan Niu , Weihong Deng

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel privacy-protection distributed machine learning paradigm that guarantees user privacy and prevents the risk of data leakage due to the advantage of the client's local training. Researchers have struggled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kangkang Sun , Xiaojin Zhang , Xi Lin , Gaolei Li , Jing Wang , Jianhua Li

Nowadays, facial recognition systems are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. These attacks vary from simple perturbations of the input image to modifying the parameters of the recognition model to impersonate an authorised subject.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daile Osorio-Roig , Mahdi Ghafourian , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Christoph Busch , Julian Fierrez

Face images are rich data items that are useful and can easily be collected in many applications, such as in 1-to-1 face verification tasks in the domain of security and surveillance systems. Multiple methods have been proposed to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Yasin N. Silva , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) generates vast quantities of data, much of it attributable to individuals' activity and behaviour. Gathering personal data and performing machine learning tasks on this data in a central location presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Christopher Briggs , Zhong Fan , Peter Andras

Face detection in unrestricted conditions has been a trouble for years due to various expressions, brightness, and coloration fringing. Recent studies show that deep learning knowledge of strategies can acquire spectacular performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Sameer Aqib Hashmi

Recently, researchers have successfully employed Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to build enhanced recommender systems due to their capability to learn patterns from the interaction between involved entities. In addition, previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Marco Arazzi , Mauro Conti , Antonino Nocera , Stjepan Picek

Deep learning-based face recognition continues to face challenges due to its reliance on huge datasets obtained from web crawling, which can be costly to gather and raise significant real-world privacy concerns. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Minsoo Kim , Min-Cheol Sagong , Gi Pyo Nam , Junghyun Cho , Ig-Jae Kim

Face Recognition (FR) systems are being used in a variety of applications, including road crossings, banking, and mobile banking. The widespread use of FR systems has raised concerns about the safety of face biometrics against spoofing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Soham S. Sarpotdar

Contactless and efficient systems are implemented rapidly to advocate preventive methods in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the positive benefits of such systems, there is potential for exploitation by invading user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Sachith Seneviratne , Nuran Kasthuriarachchi , Sanka Rasnayaka , Danula Hettiachchi , Ridwan Shariffdeen

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 2023-05-24 Chun Pong Lau , Jiang Liu , Rama Chellappa

This study demonstrates a novel approach to facial camouflage that combines targeted cosmetic perturbations and alpha transparency layer manipulation to evade modern facial recognition systems. Unlike previous methods -- such as CV dazzle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 David Noever , Forrest McKee

This paper tackles the challenging and practical problem of multi-identifier private user profile matching for privacy-preserving ad measurement, a cornerstone of modern advertising analytics. We introduce a comprehensive cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jian Du , Haohao Qian , Shikun Zhang , Wen-jie Lu , Donghang Lu , Yongchuan Niu , Bo Jiang , Yongjun Zhao , Qiang Yan

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

The face mask is an essential sanitaryware in daily lives growing during the pandemic period and is a big threat to current face recognition systems. The masks destroy a lot of details in a large area of face, and it makes it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Susith Hemathilaka , Achala Aponso

A novel algorithm for face obfuscation, called Forbes, which aims to obfuscate facial appearance recognizable by humans but preserve the identity and attributes decipherable by machines, is proposed in this paper. Forbes first applies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jintae Kim , Seungwon yang , Seong-Gyun Jeong , Chang-Su Kim

Differential privacy (DP) is the standard for privacy-preserving analysis, and introduces a fundamental trade-off between privacy guarantees and model performance. Selecting the optimal balance is a critical challenge that can be framed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yaohong Yang , Aki Rehn , Sammie Katt , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Deep learning has shown incredible potential across a wide array of tasks, and accompanied by this growth has been an insatiable appetite for data. However, a large amount of data needed for enabling deep learning is stored on personal…

The proliferation of facial recognition (FR) systems has raised privacy concerns in the digital realm, as malicious uses of FR models pose a significant threat. Traditional countermeasures, such as makeup style transfer, have suffered from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo