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Face anonymization aims to protect sensitive identity information by altering faces while preserving visual realism and utility for downstream computer vision tasks. Current methods struggle to simultaneously ensure high image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Pol Labarbarie , Vincent Itier , William Puech

Face inpainting techniques recover missing or occluded facial regions in a visually realistic manner, but preserving the identity in the final output remains a fundamental challenge. Identity consistency is crucial for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 João Santos , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

Anonymization of medical images is necessary for protecting the identity of the test subjects, and is therefore an essential step in data sharing. However, recent developments in deep learning may raise the bar on the amount of distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 David Abramian , Anders Eklund

Face anonymization aims to conceal the visual identity of a face to safeguard the individual's privacy. Traditional methods like blurring and pixelation can largely remove identifying features, but these techniques significantly degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Lin Yuan , Kai Liang , Xiong Li , Tao Wu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Current face anonymization techniques often depend on identity loss calculated by face recognition models, which can be inaccurate and unreliable. Additionally, many methods require supplementary data such as facial landmarks and masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Sanjay Saha , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation of realistic facial images conditioned on textual prompts and human identities, enabling creating personalized facial imagery. However, existing prompt-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Nicu Sebe

Investigating new methods of creating face morphing attacks is essential to foresee novel attacks and help mitigate them. Creating morphing attacks is commonly either performed on the image-level or on the representation-level. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Naser Damer , Meiling Fang , Patrick Siebke , Jan Niklas Kolf , Marco Huber , Fadi Boutros

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) plays a vital role in preventing face recognition (FR) systems from presentation attacks. Nowadays, FAS systems face the challenge of domain shift, impacting the generalization performance of existing FAS methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xinxu Ge , Xin Liu , Zitong Yu , Jingang Shi , Chun Qi , Jie Li , Heikki Kälviäinen

Since the introduction of the GDPR and CCPA legislation, both public and private facial image datasets are increasingly scrutinized. Several datasets have been taken offline completely and some have been anonymized. However, it is unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Sander R. Klomp , Matthew van Rijn , Rob G. J. Wijnhoven , Cees G. M. Snoek , Peter H. N. de With

Face recognition systems have significantly advanced in recent years, driven by the availability of large-scale datasets. However, several issues have recently came up, including privacy concerns that have led to the discontinuation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

The performance of automated face recognition systems is inevitably impacted by the facial aging process. However, high quality datasets of individuals collected over several years are typically small in scale. In this work, we propose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sudipta Banerjee , Govind Mittal , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

Face recognition models are trained on large-scale datasets, which have privacy and ethical concerns. Lately, the use of synthetic data to complement or replace genuine data for the training of face recognition models has been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Geissbühler , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

The rise of deepfake images, especially of well-known personalities, poses a serious threat to the dissemination of authentic information. To tackle this, we present a thorough investigation into how deepfakes are produced and how they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haixu Song , Shiyu Huang , Yinpeng Dong , Wei-Wei Tu

Recently, deep learning-based facial landmark detection for in-the-wild faces has achieved significant improvement. However, there are still challenges in face landmark detection in other domains (e.g. cartoon, caricature, etc). This is due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yuanming Li , Gwantae Kim , Jeong-gi Kwak , Bon-hwa Ku , Hanseok Ko

Synthetic face recognition (SFR) aims to generate synthetic face datasets that mimic the distribution of real face data, which allows for training face recognition models in a privacy-preserving manner. Despite the remarkable potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shen Li , Jianqing Xu , Jiaying Wu , Miao Xiong , Ailin Deng , Jiazhen Ji , Yuge Huang , Wenjie Feng , Shouhong Ding , Bryan Hooi

Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) systems play a critical role in Autonomous Driving (AD) systems, enabling real-time detection of road signs, such as STOP and speed limit signs. While these systems are increasingly integrated into commercial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chen Ma , Ningfei Wang , Junhao Zheng , Qing Guo , Qian Wang , Qi Alfred Chen , Chao Shen

De-identification of face data has drawn increasing attention in recent years. It is important to protect people's identities meanwhile keeping the utility of the data in many computer vision tasks. We propose a Controllable Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tianxiang Ma , Dongze Li , Wei Wang , Jing Dong

The success of face recognition (FR) systems has led to serious privacy concerns due to potential unauthorized surveillance and user tracking on social networks. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to generate natural face images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Liqin Wang , Qianyue Hu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Learning disentangled representations of data is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence. Specifically, disentangled latent representations allow generative models to control and compose the disentangled factors in the synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yotam Nitzan , Amit Bermano , Yangyan Li , Daniel Cohen-Or