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Automated facial identification and facial expression recognition have been topics of active research over the past few decades. Facial and expression recognition find applications in human-computer interfaces, subject tracking, real-time…

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The proliferation of digital technologies has led to unprecedented data collection, with facial data emerging as a particularly sensitive commodity. Companies are increasingly leveraging advanced facial recognition technologies, often…

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The growing demand for diverse and high-quality facial datasets for training and testing biometric systems is challenged by privacy regulations, data scarcity, and ethical concerns. Synthetic facial images offer a potential solution, yet…

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In today's business landscape, organizations need to find the right balance between using their customers' data ethically to power AI solutions and being compliant regarding data privacy and data usage regulations. In this paper, we discuss…

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The rapid advancement in deep learning makes the differentiation of authentic and manipulated facial images and video clips unprecedentedly harder. The underlying technology of manipulating facial appearances through deep generative…

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Deep fakes became extremely popular in the last years, also thanks to their increasing realism. Therefore, there is the need to measures human's ability to distinguish between real and synthetic face images when confronted with cutting-edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Federica Lago , Cecilia Pasquini , Rainer Böhme , Hélène Dumont , Valérie Goffaux , Giulia Boato

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Recent advances in generative modelling have led many to see synthetic data as the go-to solution for a range of problems around data access, scarcity, and under-representation. In this paper, we study three prominent use cases: (1) Sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bogdan Kulynych , Theresa Stadler , Jean Louis Raisaro , Carmela Troncoso

Face deidentification is an active topic amongst privacy and security researchers. Early deidentification methods relying on image blurring or pixelization were replaced in recent years with techniques based on formal anonymity models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Blaž Meden , Refik Can Mallı , Sebastjan Fabijan , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

Synthetic Data is not new, but recent advances in Generative AI have raised interest in expanding the research toolbox, creating new opportunities and risks. This article provides a taxonomy of the full breadth of the Synthetic Data domain.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Richard Timpone , Yongwei Yang

The quality and size of training set have great impact on the results of deep learning-based face related tasks. However, collecting and labeling adequate samples with high quality and balanced distributions still remains a laborious and…

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Deep generative models and synthetic medical data have shown significant promise in addressing key challenges in healthcare, such as privacy concerns, data bias, and the scarcity of realistic datasets. While research in this area has grown…

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Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

The availability of large-scale face datasets has been key in the progress of face recognition. However, due to licensing issues or copyright infringement, some datasets are not available anymore (e.g. MS-Celeb-1M). Recent advances in…

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Face verification has come into increasing focus in various applications including the European Entry/Exit System, which integrates face recognition mechanisms. At the same time, the rapid advancement of biometric authentication requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haoyu Zhang , Marcel Grimmer , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Nowadays, deploying a robust face recognition product becomes easy with the development of face recognition techniques for decades. Not only profile image verification but also the state-of-the-art method can handle the in-the-wild image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Chia-Chun Chung , Pei-Chun Chang , Yong-Sheng Chen , HaoYuan He , Chinson Yeh

Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of a sensitive nature, and thus, sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Emiliano De Cristofaro

Face recognition applications have grown in parallel with the size of datasets, complexity of deep learning models and computational power. However, while deep learning models evolve to become more capable and computational power keeps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Pedro C. Neto , Rafael M. Mamede , Carolina Albuquerque , Tiago Gonçalves , Ana F. Sequeira

Images of morphed faces pose a serious threat to face recognition--based security systems, as they can be used to illegally verify the identity of multiple people with a single morphed image. Modern detection algorithms learn to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Marija Ivanovska , Andrej Kronovšek , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc , Borut Batagelj

Recognizing pain in video is crucial for improving patient-computer interaction systems, yet traditional data collection in this domain raises significant ethical and logistical challenges. This study introduces a novel approach that…

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