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Recent text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation of realistic facial images conditioned on textual prompts and human identities, enabling creating personalized facial imagery. However, existing prompt-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Nicu Sebe

In an era where personal photos are easily leaked and collected, face de-identification is a crucial method for protecting identity privacy. However, current face de-identification techniques face challenges in preserving attribute details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Xin Wei , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

It is difficult for individuals and organizations to protect personal information without a fundamental understanding of relative privacy risks. By analyzing over 5,000 empirical identity theft and fraud cases, this research identifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haoran Niu , K. Suzanne Barber

The growing demand for customized visual content has led to the rise of personalized text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models. Despite their remarkable potential, they pose significant privacy risk when misused for malicious purposes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xide Xu , Muhammad Atif Butt , Sandesh Kamath , Bogdan Raducanu

We study statistical risk minimization problems under a privacy model in which the data is kept confidential even from the learner. In this local privacy framework, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rates of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-11 John C. Duchi , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) technology exacerbates privacy concerns in photo sharing. In response, the research community developed a suite of anti-FR methods to block identity extraction by unauthorized FR systems. Benefiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tao Wang , Yushu Zhang , Xiangli Xiao , Kun Xu , Lin Yuan , Wenying Wen , Yuming Fang

Identity disclosure of an individual from a released data is a matter of concern especially if it belongs to a category with low frequency in the data-set. Nayak et al. (2016) discussed this problem vividly in a census report and suggested…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-26 Debolina Ghatak , Bimal K Roy

Recent research has established the possibility of deducing soft-biometric attributes such as age, gender and race from an individual's face image with high accuracy. However, this raises privacy concerns, especially when face images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Vahid Mirjalili , Sebastian Raschka , Arun Ross

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

People increasingly share personal information, including their photos and photo collections, on social media. This information, however, can compromise individual privacy, particularly as social media platforms use it to infer detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Jinghan Yang , Ayan Chakrabarti , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

The success of deep learning is partly attributed to the availability of massive data downloaded freely from the Internet. However, it also means that users' private data may be collected by commercial organizations without consent and used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Kelu Jiang , Furui Liu , Zhihua Wang , Fei Wu

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in the field of image generation, becoming the stateof-the-art technology for AI-based image processing applications. Despite the numerous benefits brought by recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Derui Zhu , Dingfan Chen , Jens Grossklags , Mario Fritz

Recent advances in score-based generative models have led to a huge spike in the development of downstream applications using generative models ranging from data augmentation over image and video generation to anomaly detection. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mischa Dombrowski , Bernhard Kainz

In distributed networks, calculating the maximum element is a fundamental task in data analysis, known as the distributed maximum consensus problem. However, the sensitive nature of the data involved makes privacy protection essential.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenrui Yu , Richard Heusdens , Jun Pang , Qiongxiu Li

Latent diffusion models can be used as a powerful augmentation method to artificially extend datasets for enhanced training. To the human eye, these augmented images look very different to the originals. Previous work has suggested to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Valentin Haug , Rainer Lienhart

Creating high-quality and realistic images is now possible thanks to the impressive advancements in image generation. A description in natural language of your desired output is all you need to obtain breathtaking results. However, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Giuseppe Cartella , Vittorio Cuculo , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

The proliferation of automated face recognition in the commercial and government sectors has caused significant privacy concerns for individuals. One approach to address these privacy concerns is to employ evasion attacks against the metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Harrison Rosenberg , Brian Tang , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha

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

This paper examines the limitations of advanced text-to-image models in accurately rendering unconventional concepts which are scarcely represented or absent in their training datasets. We identify how these limitations not only confine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jiyoon Myung , Jihyeon Park

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong