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Facial recognition technologies are implemented in many areas, including but not limited to, citizen surveillance, crime control, activity monitoring, and facial expression evaluation. However, processing biometric information is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-07 M. A. P. Chamikara , P. Bertok , I. Khalil , D. Liu , S. Camtepe

This study develops a novel framework for privacy-preserving data analytics, addressing the critical challenge of balancing data utility with privacy concerns. We introduce three sophisticated algorithms: a Noise-Infusion Technique tailored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zahir Alsulaimawi

Current face de-identification methods that replace identifiable cues in the face region with other sacrifices utilities contributing to realism, such as age and gender. To retrieve the damaged realism, we present FLUID (Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jinhyeong Park , Shaheryar Muhammad , Seangmin Lee , Jong Taek Lee , Soon Ki Jung

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

With the increasing adoption of diffusion models for image generation and personalization, concerns regarding privacy breaches and content misuse have become more pressing. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive comparison of eight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kai Ye , Tianyi Chen , Zhen Wang

Data obfuscation is a promising technique for mitigating attribute inference attacks by semi-trusted parties with access to time-series data emitted by sensors. Recent advances leverage conditional generative models together with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian

Diffusion-based approaches have recently achieved strong results in face swapping, offering improved visual quality over traditional GAN-based methods. However, even state-of-the-art models often suffer from fine-grained artifacts and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Weston Bondurant , Arkaprava Sinha , Hieu Le , Srijan Das , Stephanie Schuckers

With the growing adoption of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), training or fine-tuning models on private datasets has become increasingly prevalent. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hong Guan , Lei Yu , Lixi Zhou , Li Xiong , Kanchan Chowdhury , Lulu Xie , Xusheng Xiao , Jia Zou

The rapid progress in generative models has given rise to the critical task of AI-Generated Content Stealth (AIGC-S), which aims to create AI-generated images that can evade both forensic detectors and human inspection. This task is crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ziyin Zhou , Ke Sun , Zhongxi Chen , Huafeng Kuang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Recent developments in hardware, computer graphics, and AI may soon enable AR/VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) to become everyday devices like smartphones and tablets. Eye trackers within HMDs provide a special opportunity for such setups as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mengdi Wang , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

Recent advances in GAN and diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and controllability of facial deepfake manipulation, raising serious concerns regarding privacy, security, and identity misuse. Proactive defenses attempt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yue Li , Linying Xue , Kaiqing Lin , Hanyu Quan , Dongdong Lin , Hui Tian , Hongxia Wang , Bin Wang

With rapid advancements in image generation technology, face swapping for privacy protection has emerged as an active area of research. The ultimate benefit is improved access to video datasets, e.g. in healthcare settings. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ethan Wilson , Frederick Shic , Jenny Skytta , Eakta Jain

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

We address the problem of learning person-specific facial priors from a small number (e.g., 20) of portrait photos of the same person. This enables us to edit this specific person's facial appearance, such as expression and lighting, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Lars Jebe , Zhuowen Tu , Xiuming Zhang

Advancing face morphing attack techniques is crucial to anticipate evolving threats and develop robust defensive mechanisms for identity verification systems. This work introduces DCMorph, a dual-stream diffusion-based morphing framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tahar Chettaoui , Eduarda Caldeira , Guray Ozgur , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

The success of deep learning based face recognition systems has given rise to serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Despite the fact that DeepFake forgery detection algorithms have achieved impressive performance on known manipulations, they often face disastrous performance degradation when generalized to an unseen manipulation. Some recent works show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chuer Yu , Xuhong Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Senbo Yan , Zonghui Wang , Yang Xiang , Shouling Ji , Wenzhi Chen

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image synthesis, but their recently proven vulnerability to Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) poses a critical privacy concern. This paper introduces two novel and efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Bao Q. Tran , Viet Nguyen , Anh Tran , Toan Tran

Information hiding is the process of embedding data within another form of data, often to conceal its existence or prevent unauthorized access. This process is commonly used in various forms of secure communications (steganography) that can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Preston K. Robinette , Daniel Moyer , Taylor T. Johnson

Camouflaged object detection is a challenging task that aims to identify objects that are highly similar to their background. Due to the powerful noise-to-image denoising capability of denoising diffusion models, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zhennan Chen , Rongrong Gao , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Fan Lin