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The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

As we shift more of our lives into the virtual domain, the volume of data shared on the web keeps increasing and presents a threat to our privacy. This works contributes to the understanding of privacy implications of such data sharing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Face recognition service providers protect face privacy by extracting compact and discriminative facial features (representations) from images, and storing the facial features for real-time recognition. However, such features can still be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Zhibo Wang , He Wang , Shuaifan Jin , Wenwen Zhang , Jiahui Hu , Yan Wang , Peng Sun , Wei Yuan , Kaixin Liu , Kui Ren

There is a growing privacy concern due to the popularity of social media and surveillance systems, along with advances in face recognition software. However, established image obfuscation techniques are either vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tao Li , Min Soo Choi

Facial recognition systems are increasingly deployed by private corporations, government agencies, and contractors for consumer services and mass surveillance programs alike. These systems are typically built by scraping social media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Valeriia Cherepanova , Micah Goldblum , Harrison Foley , Shiyuan Duan , John Dickerson , Gavin Taylor , Tom Goldstein

Face recognition (FR) technologies are increasingly used to power large-scale image retrieval systems, raising serious privacy concerns. Services like Clearview AI and PimEyes allow anyone to upload a facial photo and retrieve a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziling Wang , Shuya Yang , Jialin Lu , Ka-Ho Chow

While the rapid development of facial recognition algorithms has enabled numerous beneficial applications, their widespread deployment has raised significant concerns about the risks of mass surveillance and threats to individual privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Paweł Borsukiewicz , Daniele Lunghi , Melissa Tessa , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

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

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

Photos of faces uploaded online are vulnerable to malicious actors who can scrape facial images from online sources and intrude on personal privacy via unauthorized use of facial recognition models. This paper presents FaceCloak, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zachary Yahn , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Selim Tekin , Sihao Hu , Yichang Xu , Margaret Loper , Ling Liu

Deep Neural Networks have achieved unprecedented success in the field of face recognition such that any individual can crawl the data of others from the Internet without their explicit permission for the purpose of training high-precision…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Liuqiao Chen , Hu Wang , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Minhui Xue , Haifeng Qian

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

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

The issue of detecting deepfakes has garnered significant attention in the research community, with the goal of identifying facial manipulations for abuse prevention. Although recent studies have focused on developing generalized models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jiazhi Guan , Tianshu Hu , Hang Zhou , Zhizhi Guo , Lirui Deng , Chengbin Quan , Errui Ding , Youjian Zhao

A face image not only provides details about the identity of a subject but also reveals several attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. Advancements in machine learning algorithms and popularity of sharing images on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Saheb Chhabra , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Gaurav Gupta

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

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

As virtual and physical identity grow increasingly intertwined, the importance of privacy and security in the online sphere becomes paramount. In recent years, multiple news stories have emerged of private companies scraping web content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Ahsi Lo , Gabriella Pangelinan , Michael C. King

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 growing public concerns on data privacy in face recognition can be greatly addressed by the federated learning (FL) paradigm. However, conventional FL methods perform poorly due to the uniqueness of the task: broadcasting class centers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qiang Meng , Feng Zhou , Hainan Ren , Tianshu Feng , Guochao Liu , Yuanqing Lin