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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

The widespread adoption of face recognition has led to increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to face images can expose sensitive personal information. This paper explores face image protection against viewing and recovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Jianqing Xu , Jun Wang , Shaoming Wang , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

Face Recognition (FR) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that subtly alter benign facial images, exposing blind spots in these systems, as well as protecting user privacy. End-to-end FR systems first obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Roland Croft , Brian Du , Darcy Joseph , Sharath Kumar

Recent advancements in deep learning have revolutionized technology and security measures, necessitating robust identification methods. Biometric approaches, leveraging personalized characteristics, offer a promising solution. However, Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Iurii Medvedev , Nuno Gonçalves

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

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

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

Federated learning has been proposed as a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple clients to collaborate without sharing raw data. However, client privacy protection is not guaranteed by design in this framework.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kai Yue , Richeng Jin , Chau-Wai Wong , Dror Baron , Huaiyu Dai

With the widespread use of biometric recognition, several issues related to the privacy and security provided by this technology have been recently raised and analysed. As a result, the early common belief among the biometrics community of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Marta Gomez-Barrero , Javier Galbally

As autonomous driving and augmented reality evolve, a practical concern is data privacy. In particular, these applications rely on localization based on user images. The widely adopted technology uses local feature descriptors, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Deeksha Dangwal , Vincent T. Lee , Hyo Jin Kim , Tianwei Shen , Meghan Cowan , Rajvi Shah , Caroline Trippel , Brandon Reagen , Timothy Sherwood , Vasileios Balntas , Armin Alaghi , Eddy Ilg

Face manipulation attacks have drawn the attention of biometric researchers because of their vulnerability to Face Recognition Systems (FRS). This paper proposes a novel scheme to generate Composite Face Image Attacks (CFIA) based on facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Computationally efficient, accurate, and privacy-preserving data storage and retrieval are among the key challenges faced by practical deployments of biometric identification systems worldwide. In this work, a method of protected indexing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pawel Drozdowski , Fabian Stockhardt , Christian Rathgeb , Dailé Osorio-Roig , Christoph Busch

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

State-of-the-art face recognition systems are based on deep (convolutional) neural networks. Therefore, it is imperative to determine to what extent face templates derived from deep networks can be inverted to obtain the original face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Guangcan Mai , Kai Cao , Pong C. Yuen , Anil K. Jain

Various facial manipulation techniques have drawn serious public concerns in morality, security, and privacy. Although existing face forgery classifiers achieve promising performance on detecting fake images, these methods are vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shuai Jia , Chao Ma , Taiping Yao , Bangjie Yin , Shouhong Ding , Xiaokang Yang

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

Face morphing attacks circumvent face recognition systems (FRSs) by creating a morphed image that contains multiple identities. However, existing face morphing attack methods either sacrifice image quality or compromise the identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zuyuan He , Zongyong Deng , Qiaoyun He , Qijun Zhao

Face recognition (FR) has been applied to nearly every aspect of daily life, but it is always accompanied by the underlying risk of leaking private information. At present, almost all attack models against FR rely heavily on the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yuanqing Huang , Huilong Chen , Yinggui Wang , Lei Wang

Transformation-based privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) aims to verify identities while hiding facial data from attackers and malicious service providers. Existing evaluations mostly treat privacy as resistance to pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenqi Guo , Shan Du

In this work, we study the protection that fuzzy commitments offer when they are applied to facial images, processed by the state of the art deep learning facial recognition systems. We show that while these systems are capable of producing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Danny Keller , Margarita Osadchy , Orr Dunkelman