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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…

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The demand for privacy in facial image dissemination is gaining ground internationally, echoed by the proliferation of regulations such as GDPR, DPDPA, CCPA, PIPL, and APPI. While recent advances in anonymization surpass pixelation or blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Majed El Helou , Doruk Cetin , Petar Stamenkovic , Niko Benjamin Huber , Fabio Zünd

There is growing concern about image privacy due to the popularity of social media and photo devices, along with increasing use of face recognition systems. However, established image de-identification techniques are either too subject to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Tao Li , Chris Clifton

In recent years, the increasing availability of personal data has raised concerns regarding privacy and security. One of the critical processes to address these concerns is data anonymization, which aims to protect individual privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fabio Hellmann , Silvan Mertes , Mohamed Benouis , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Cristina Conati , Peter Krawitz , Elisabeth André

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

As cameras become ubiquitous in our living environment, invasion of privacy is becoming a growing concern. A common approach to privacy preservation is to remove personally identifiable information from a captured image, but there is a risk…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yoko Sogabe , Shiori Sugimoto , Ayumi Matsumoto , Masaki Kitahara

Machine learning models are vulnerable to both security attacks (e.g., adversarial examples) and privacy attacks (e.g., private attribute inference). We take the first step to mitigate both the security and privacy attacks, and maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Binghui Zhang , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Due to the pervasiveness of image capturing devices in every-day life, images of individuals are routinely captured. Although this has enabled many benefits, it also infringes on personal privacy. A promising direction in research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 William Croft , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Wei Shi

The growing adoption of photorealistic 3D facial avatars, particularly those utilizing efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting representations, introduces new risks of online identity theft, especially in systems that rely on biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dawid Wolkiewicz , Anastasiya Pechko , Przemysław Spurek , Piotr Syga

Privacy becomes a crucial issue when outsourcing the training of machine learning (ML) models to cloud-based platforms offering machine-learning services. While solutions based on cryptographic primitives have been developed, they incur a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mathilde Raynal , Radhakrishna Achanta , Mathias Humbert

Reliable facial expression recognition plays a critical role in human-machine interactions. However, most of the facial expression analysis methodologies proposed to date pay little or no attention to the protection of a user's privacy. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Jiawei Chen , Janusz Konrad , Prakash Ishwar

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

Facial recognition tools are becoming exceptionally accurate in identifying people from images. However, this comes at the cost of privacy for users of online services with photo management (e.g. social media platforms). Particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Thomas Cilloni , Wei Wang , Charles Walter , Charles Fleming

As the privacy risks posed by camera surveillance and facial recognition have grown, so has the research into privacy preservation algorithms. Among these, visual privacy preservation algorithms attempt to impart bodily privacy to subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Sophie Noiret , Siddharth Ravi , Martin Kampel , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

Image data collected in the wild often contains private information such as faces and license plates, and responsible data release must ensure that this information stays hidden. At the same time, released data should retain its usefulness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Saeed Mahloujifar , Narine Kokhlikyan , Chuan Guo , Kamalika Chaudhuri

The widespread use of image acquisition technologies, along with advances in facial recognition, has raised serious privacy concerns. Face de-identification usually refers to the process of concealing or replacing personal identifiers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

Cameras are prevalent in our daily lives, and enable many useful systems built upon computer vision technologies such as smart cameras and home robots for service applications. However, there is also an increasing societal concern as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiuye Gu , Weixin Luo , Michael S. Ryoo , Yong Jae Lee

The ubiquitous use of face recognition has sparked increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to sensitive face images could compromise the information of individuals. This paper presents an in-depth study of the privacy protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yuxi Mi , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Minyi Zhao , Jiaxiang Wu , Xingkun Xu , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

Biometric-based authentication systems are getting broadly adopted in many areas. However, these systems do not allow participating users to influence the way their data is used. Furthermore, the data may leak and can be misused without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Lubos Mjachky , Ivan Homoliak

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe