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Due to the pervasiveness of image capturing devices in every-day life, images of individuals are routinely captured. Although this has enabled many benefits, it also infringes on personal privacy. A promising direction in research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 William Croft , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Wei Shi

Facial recognition models are increasingly employed by commercial enterprises, government agencies, and cloud service providers for identity verification, consumer services, and surveillance. These models are often trained using vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chen Chen , Mengyuan Sun , Xueluan Gong , Yanjiao Chen , Qian Wang

Inverting visual representations within deep neural networks (DNNs) presents a challenging and important problem in the field of security and privacy for deep learning. The main goal is to invert the features of an unidentified target image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sai Qian Zhang , Ziyun Li , Chuan Guo , Saeed Mahloujifar , Deeksha Dangwal , Edward Suh , Barbara De Salvo , Chiao Liu

With the rapid development of face recognition (FR) systems, the privacy of face images on social media is facing severe challenges due to the abuse of unauthorized FR systems. Some studies utilize adversarial attack techniques to defend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yuhao Sun , Lingyun Yu , Hongtao Xie , Jiaming Li , Yongdong Zhang

There is growing concern about image privacy due to the popularity of social media and photo devices, along with increasing use of face recognition systems. However, established image de-identification techniques are either too subject to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Tao Li , Chris Clifton

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

The excessive use of images in social networks, government databases, and industrial applications has posed great privacy risks and raised serious concerns from the public. Even though differential privacy (DP) is a widely accepted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hanyu Xue , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Li Song , Wanlei Zhou

The unprecedented capture and application of face images raise increasing concerns on anonymization to fight against privacy disclosure. Most existing methods may suffer from the problem of excessive change of the identity-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhenzhong Kuang , Xiaochen Yang , Yingjie Shen , Chao Hu , Jun Yu

Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information about the scene or subjects, e.g., by reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mihai Dusmanu , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

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

Privacy of machine learning models is one of the remaining challenges that hinder the broad adoption of Artificial Intelligent (AI). This paper considers this problem in the context of image datasets containing faces. Anonymization of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minh-Ha Le , Niklas Carlsson

The widespread adoption of face recognition has led to increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to face images can expose sensitive personal information. This paper explores face image protection against viewing and recovery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Jianqing Xu , Jun Wang , Shaoming Wang , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

Portrait customization (PC) has recently garnered significant attention due to its potential applications. However, existing PC methods lack precise identity (ID) preservation and face control. To address these tissues, we propose Diff-PC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifang Xu , Benxiang Zhai , Chenyu Zhang , Ming Li , Yang Li , Sidan Du

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

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

Personalized text-to-image diffusion models (e.g., DreamBooth, LoRA) enable users to synthesize high-fidelity avatars from a few reference photos for social expression. However, once these generations are shared on social media platforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Linyan Dai , Xinwei Zhang , Haoyang Li , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Face recognition models embed a face image into a low-dimensional identity vector containing abstract encodings of identity-specific facial features that allow individuals to be distinguished from one another. We tackle the challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Manuel Kansy , Anton Raël , Graziana Mignone , Jacek Naruniec , Christopher Schroers , Markus Gross , Romann M. Weber

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

Despite the success of diffusion-based customization methods on visual content creation, increasing concerns have been raised about such techniques from both privacy and political perspectives. To tackle this issue, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Feifei Wang , Zhentao Tan , Tianyi Wei , Yue Wu , Qidong Huang

Deep learning-based face recognition continues to face challenges due to its reliance on huge datasets obtained from web crawling, which can be costly to gather and raise significant real-world privacy concerns. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Minsoo Kim , Min-Cheol Sagong , Gi Pyo Nam , Junghyun Cho , Ig-Jae Kim