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We introduce the concept of deceptive diffusion -- training a generative AI model to produce adversarial images. Whereas a traditional adversarial attack algorithm aims to perturb an existing image to induce a misclassificaton, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Lucas Beerens , Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham

Latent diffusion models can be used as a powerful augmentation method to artificially extend datasets for enhanced training. To the human eye, these augmented images look very different to the originals. Previous work has suggested to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Valentin Haug , Rainer Lienhart

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

There is a growing privacy concern due to the popularity of social media and surveillance systems, along with advances in face recognition software. However, established image obfuscation techniques are either vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Tao Li , Min Soo Choi

Recent advancements in diffusion models revolutionize image generation but pose risks of misuse, such as replicating artworks or generating deepfakes. Existing image protection methods, though effective, struggle to balance protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Namhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Wonhyuk Ahn , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

Face recognition service providers protect face privacy by extracting compact and discriminative facial features (representations) from images, and storing the facial features for real-time recognition. However, such features can still be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Zhibo Wang , He Wang , Shuaifan Jin , Wenwen Zhang , Jiahui Hu , Yan Wang , Peng Sun , Wei Yuan , Kaixin Liu , Kui Ren

To enhance the security of text CAPTCHAs, various methods have been employed, such as adding the interference lines on the text, randomly distorting the characters, and overlapping multiple characters. These methods partly increase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Ran Jiang , Sanfeng Zhang , Linfeng Liu , Yanbing Peng

The popularity of various social platforms has prompted more people to share their routine photos online. However, undesirable privacy leakages occur due to such online photo sharing behaviors. Advanced deep neural network (DNN) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingfu Xue , Shichang Sun , Zhiyu Wu , Can He , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Given the need to evaluate the robustness of face recognition (FR) models, many efforts have focused on adversarial patch attacks that mislead FR models by introducing localized perturbations. Impersonation attacks are a significant threat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Mingsi Wang , Shuaiyin Yao , Chang Yue , Lijie Zhang , Guozhu Meng

The proliferation of diffusion-based deepfake technologies poses significant risks for unauthorized and unethical facial image manipulation. While traditional countermeasures have primarily focused on passive detection methods, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hon Ming Yam , Zhongliang Guo , Chun Pong Lau

Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Harry Cheng , Yangyang Guo , Tianyi Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Recent progress in diffusion models has profoundly enhanced the fidelity of image generation, but it has raised concerns about copyright infringements. While prior methods have introduced adversarial perturbations to prevent style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Namhyuk Ahn , Wonhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

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

The increasing reliance on diffusion models for generating synthetic images has amplified concerns about the unauthorized use of personal data, particularly facial images, in model training. In this paper, we introduce a novel identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jayneel Vora , Aditya Krishnan , Nader Bouacida , Prabhu RV Shankar , Prasant Mohapatra

Deep neural networks are extensively applied to real-world tasks, such as face recognition and medical image classification, where privacy and data protection are critical. Image data, if not protected, can be exploited to infer personal or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Weiheng Chai , Brian Testa , Huantao Ren , Asif Salekin , Senem Velipasalar

Contemporary face recognition systems use feature templates extracted from face images to identify persons. To enhance privacy, face template protection techniques are widely employed to conceal sensitive identity and appearance information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhizhou Zhong , Yuxi Mi , Yuge Huang , Jianqing Xu , Guodong Mu , Shouhong Ding , Jingyun Zhang , Rizen Guo , Yunsheng Wu , Shuigeng Zhou

Although deep learning-based visual tracking methods have made significant progress, they exhibit vulnerabilities when facing carefully designed adversarial attacks, which can lead to a sharp decline in tracking performance. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Xu , Peng Gao , Wen-Jia Tang , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Diffusion Models (DMs) have empowered great success in artificial-intelligence-generated content, especially in artwork creation, yet raising new concerns in intellectual properties and copyright. For example, infringers can make profits by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chumeng Liang , Xiaoyu Wu

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

Face Recognition (FR) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that subtly alter benign facial images, exposing blind spots in these systems, as well as protecting user privacy. End-to-end FR systems first obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Roland Croft , Brian Du , Darcy Joseph , Sharath Kumar