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The widespread deployment of surveillance cameras for facial recognition gives rise to many privacy concerns. This study proposes a privacy-friendly alternative to large scale facial recognition. While there are multiple techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Advancements in face recognition (FR) technologies have amplified privacy concerns, necessitating methods that protect identity while maintaining recognition utility. Existing face anonymization methods typically focus on obscuring identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mohammed Talha Alam , Fahad Shamshad , Fakhri Karray , Karthik Nandakumar

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive results for task of facial expression synthesis. The most successful architecture is StarGAN, that conditions GANs generation process with images of a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Albert Pumarola , Antonio Agudo , Aleix M. Martinez , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are now capable of producing synthetic face images of exceptionally high visual quality. In parallel to the development of GANs themselves, efforts have been made to develop metrics to objectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Richard T. Marriott , Safa Madiouni , Sami Romdhani , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

In this paper, we present an Attention-based Identity Preserving Generative Adversarial Network (AIP-GAN) to overcome the identity leakage problem from a source image to a generated face image, an issue that is encountered in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Human motion is a behavioral biometric trait that can be used to identify individuals and infer private attributes such as medical conditions. This poses a serious threat to privacy as motion extraction from video and motion capture are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Thorsten Strufe

Facial video inpainting plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including but not limited to the removal of obstructions in video conferencing and telemedicine, enhancement of facial expression analysis, privacy protection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara , Karen Egiazarian , Sebastian Knorr

Over the past years, the main research innovations in face recognition focused on training deep neural networks on large-scale identity-labeled datasets using variations of multi-class classification losses. However, many of these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

The increasing capabilities of deep neural networks for re-identification, combined with the rise in public surveillance in recent years, pose a substantial threat to individual privacy. Event cameras were initially considered as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Nicole Thiemer , Karen Joisten , Didier Stricker

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

From TV news to Google StreetView, face obscuration has been used for privacy protection. Due to recent advances in the field of deep learning, obscuration methods such as Gaussian blurring and pixelation are not guaranteed to conceal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hanxiang Hao , David Güera , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp

The collection and use of personal data are becoming more common in today's data-driven culture. While there are many advantages to this, including better decision-making and service delivery, it also poses significant ethical issues around…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Constantinos Patsakis , Nikolaos Lykousas

Generating identity-preserving faces aims to generate various face images keeping the same identity given a target face image. Although considerable generative models have been developed in recent years, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Zhigang Li , Yupin Luo

Biometric data is pervasively captured and analyzed. Using modern machine learning approaches, identity and attribute inferences attacks have proven high accuracy. Anonymizations aim to mitigate such disclosures by modifying data in a way…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Julian Todt , Simon Hanisch , Thorsten Strufe

The proliferation of facial recognition (FR) systems has raised privacy concerns in the digital realm, as malicious uses of FR models pose a significant threat. Traditional countermeasures, such as makeup style transfer, have suffered from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo

In this work, we present Facial Identity Controllable GAN (FICGAN) for not only generating high-quality de-identified face images with ensured privacy protection, but also detailed controllability on attribute preservation for enhanced data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yonghyun Jeong , Jooyoung Choi , Sungwon Kim , Youngmin Ro , Tae-Hyun Oh , Doyeon Kim , Heonseok Ha , Sungroh Yoon

As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging. We propose a new hybrid approach to obfuscate identities in photos by head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Qianru Sun , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Mario Fritz , Christian Theobalt , Bernt Schiele

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Sohini Roychowdhury , Michelle Emmons

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are capable of synthesizing high-quality facial images. Despite their success, GANs do not provide any information about the relationship between the input vectors and the generated images. Currently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ali Pourramezan Fard , Mohammad H. Mahoor , Sarah Ariel Lamer , Timothy Sweeny

In today's data-driven analytics landscape, deep learning has become a powerful tool, with latent representations, known as embeddings, playing a central role in several applications. In the face analytics domain, such embeddings are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Arjun Ramesh Kaushik , Bharat Chandra Yalavarthi , Arun Ross , Vishnu Boddeti , Nalini Ratha