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Cameras are prevalent in our daily lives, and enable many useful systems built upon computer vision technologies such as smart cameras and home robots for service applications. However, there is also an increasing societal concern as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiuye Gu , Weixin Luo , Michael S. Ryoo , Yong Jae Lee

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

While deep face recognition (FR) systems have shown amazing performance in identification and verification, they also arouse privacy concerns for their excessive surveillance on users, especially for public face images widely spread on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shengshan Hu , Xiaogeng Liu , Yechao Zhang , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Hai Jin , Libing Wu

Because of the explosive growth of face photos as well as their widespread dissemination and easy accessibility in social media, the security and privacy of personal identity information becomes an unprecedented challenge. Meanwhile, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yunqian Wen , Li Song , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie

Face de-identification has become increasingly important as the image sources are explosively growing and easily accessible. The advance of new face recognition techniques also arises people's concern regarding the privacy leakage. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yifan Wu , Fan Yang , Haibin Ling

There is an increasing concern in computer vision devices invading users' privacy by recording unwanted videos. On the one hand, we want the camera systems to recognize important events and assist human daily lives by understanding its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee , Michael S. Ryoo

The use of social media websites and applications has become very popular and people share their photos on these networks. Automatic recognition and tagging of people's photos on these networks has raised privacy preservation issues and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Mohammad Hossein Khojaste , Nastaran Moradzadeh Farid , Ahmad Nickabadi

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

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

The increasing demand for large-scale visual data, coupled with strict privacy regulations, has driven research into anonymization methods that hide personal identities without seriously degrading data quality. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Image and video-capturing technologies have permeated our every-day life. Such technologies can continuously monitor individuals' expressions in real-life settings, affording us new insights into their emotional states and transitions, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Vansh Narula , Zhangyang , Wang , Theodora Chaspari

Face images are a rich source of information that can be used to identify individuals and infer private information about them. To mitigate this privacy risk, anonymizations employ transformations on clear images to obfuscate sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Julian Todt , Simon Hanisch , Thorsten Strufe

Facial expression recognition (FER) systems raise significant privacy concerns due to the potential exposure of sensitive identity information. This paper presents a study on removing identity information while preserving FER capabilities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Feng Xu , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Lars Petersson , Dadong Wang , Xun Li

The modern surge in camera usage alongside widespread computer vision technology applications poses significant privacy and security concerns. Current artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aid in recognizing relevant events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jhon Lopez , Carlos Hinojosa , Henry Arguello , Bernard Ghanem

In an era where personal photos are easily leaked and collected, face de-identification is a crucial method for protecting identity privacy. However, current face de-identification techniques face challenges in preserving attribute details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Xin Wei , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

The growing use of portrait images in computer vision highlights the need to protect personal identities. At the same time, anonymized images must remain useful for downstream computer vision tasks. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Guoying Zhao

Advances in speech technology now allow unprecedented access to personally identifiable information through speech. To protect such information, the differential privacy field has explored ways to anonymize speech while preserving its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Ashi Garg , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Nicholas Andrews , Matthew Wiesner

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

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

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