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The task of privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) currently faces two major unsolved challenges: (1) existing methods are typically effective only on specific face recognition models and struggle to generalize to black-box face…

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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,…

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Face recognition is a popular form of biometric authentication and due to its widespread use, attacks have become more common as well. Recent studies show that Face Recognition Systems are vulnerable to attacks and can lead to erroneous…

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With the randomization approach, sensitive data items of records are randomized to protect privacy of individuals while allowing the distribution information to be reconstructed for data analysis. In this paper, we distinguish between…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Ke Wang , Chao Han , Ada Waichee Fu

Protecting sensitive information against data exploiting attacks is an emerging research area in data mining. Over the past, several different methods have been introduced to protect individual privacy from such attacks while maximizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Hung Nguyen , Di Zhuang , Pei-Yuan Wu , Morris Chang

The use of biometrics to authenticate users and control access to secure areas has become extremely popular in recent years, and biometric access control systems are frequently used by both governments and private corporations. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Justin Spencer , Deborah Lawrence , Prosenjit Chatterjee , Kaushik Roy , Albert Esterline , Jung-Hee Kim

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has recently attracted much attention as a metric of data privacy that prevents the inference of personal data from obfuscated data in the local model. However, there are scenarios in which the adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Takao Murakami , Kenta Takahashi

Face reconstruction and tracking is a building block of numerous applications in AR/VR, human-machine interaction, as well as medical applications. Most of these applications rely on a metrically correct prediction of the shape, especially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Wojciech Zielonka , Timo Bolkart , Justus Thies

Due to their convenience and high accuracy, face recognition systems are widely employed in governmental and personal security applications to automatically recognise individuals. Despite recent advances, face recognition systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch

Neural networks pose a privacy risk to training data due to their propensity to memorise and leak information. Focusing on image classification, we show that neural networks also unintentionally memorise unique features even when they occur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 John Hartley , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Face recognition (FR) can be abused for privacy intrusion. Governments, private companies, or even individual attackers can collect facial images by web scraping to build an FR system identifying human faces without their consent. This…

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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…

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Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are vulnerable to information leakage of their training data, which can be highly sensitive, for example in medical imaging. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), such as Differential Privacy (DP), aim…

Advances in deep learning have made face recognition technologies pervasive. While useful to social media platforms and users, this technology carries significant privacy threats. Coupled with the abundant information they have about users,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Varun Chandrasekaran , Chuhan Gao , Brian Tang , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha , Suman Banerjee

The use of AI in public spaces continually raises concerns about privacy and the protection of sensitive data. An example is the deployment of detection and recognition methods on humans, where images are provided by surveillance cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christoph Liebender , Ranulfo Bezerra , Kazunori Ohno , Satoshi Tadokoro

Deepfakes are computationally-created entities that falsely represent reality. They can take image, video, and audio modalities, and pose a threat to many areas of systems and societies, comprising a topic of interest to various aspects of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sergi D. Bray , Shane D. Johnson , Bennett Kleinberg

In large-scale statistical learning, data collection and model fitting are moving increasingly toward peripheral devices---phones, watches, fitness trackers---away from centralized data collection. Concomitant with this rise in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Abhishek Bhowmick , John Duchi , Julien Freudiger , Gaurav Kapoor , Ryan Rogers

Photorealistic 3D avatar generation has rapidly improved in recent years, and realistic avatars that match a user's true appearance are more feasible in Mixed Reality (MR) than ever before. Yet, there are known risks to sharing one's…

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