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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,…

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Over the recent years, the availability of datasets containing personal, but anonymized information has been continuously increasing. Extensive research has revealed that such datasets are vulnerable to privacy breaches: being able to…

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The increasing prevalence of computer vision applications necessitates handling vast amounts of visual data, often containing personal information. While this technology offers significant benefits, it should not compromise privacy. Data…

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Many outdoor autonomous mobile platforms require more human identity anonymized data to power their data-driven algorithms. The human identity anonymization should be robust so that less manual intervention is needed, which remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hengyuan Zhang , Jing-Yan Liao , David Paz , Henrik I. Christensen

As billions of personal data being shared through social media and network, the data privacy and security have drawn an increasing attention. Several attempts have been made to alleviate the leakage of identity information from face photos,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Hui Xue

Camera-based person re-identification is a heavily privacy-invading task by design, benefiting from rich visual data to match together person representations across different cameras. This high-dimensional data can then easily be used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lucas Maris , Yuki Matsuda , Keiichi Yasumoto

Face privacy-preserving is one of the hotspots that arises dramatic interests of research. However, the existing face privacy-preserving methods aim at causing the missing of semantic information of face and cannot preserve the reusability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yang Yang , Yiyang Huang , Ming Shi , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

AI based Face Recognition Systems (FRSs) are now widely distributed and deployed as MLaaS solutions all over the world, moreso since the COVID-19 pandemic for tasks ranging from validating individuals' faces while buying SIM cards to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Siddharth D Jaiswal , Ankit Kr. Verma , Animesh Mukherjee

The recent rapid advancements in both sensing and machine learning technologies have given rise to the universal collection and utilization of people's biometrics, such as fingerprints, voices, retina/facial scans, or gait/motion/gestures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chun-Fu Chen , Bill Moriarty , Shaohan Hu , Sean Moran , Marco Pistoia , Vincenzo Piuri , Pierangela Samarati

This work proposes a novel privacy-preserving neural network feature representation to suppress the sensitive information of a learned space while maintaining the utility of the data. The new international regulation for personal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana

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

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 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

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

Soft-biometric privacy-enhancing techniques represent machine learning methods that aim to: (i) mitigate privacy concerns associated with face recognition technology by suppressing selected soft-biometric attributes in facial images (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Peter Rot , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Face anonymization with generative models have become increasingly prevalent since they sanitize private information by generating virtual face images, ensuring both privacy and image utility. Such virtual face images are usually not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhuowen Yuan , Zhengxin You , Sheng Li , Xinpeng Zhang , Zhenxin Qian , Alex Kot

Social graphs derived from online social interactions contain a wealth of information that is nowadays extensively used by both industry and academia. However, as social graphs contain sensitive information, they need to be properly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yang Zhang , Mathias Humbert , Bartlomiej Surma , Praveen Manoharan , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Backes

In speaker anonymization, speech recordings are modified in a way that the identity of the speaker remains hidden. While this technology could help to protect the privacy of individuals around the globe, current research restricts this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sarina Meyer , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

In recent years, increasing deployment of face recognition technology in security-critical settings, such as border control or law enforcement, has led to considerable interest in the vulnerability of face recognition systems to attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Robert Nichols , Christian Rathgeb , Pawel Drozdowski , Christoph Busch

Lensless imaging protects visual privacy by capturing heavily blurred images that are imperceptible for humans to recognize the subject but contain enough information for machines to infer information. Unfortunately, protecting visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Thuong Nguyen Canh , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara