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Recent progress in generative AI, primarily through diffusion models, presents significant challenges for real-world deepfake detection. The increased realism in image details, diverse content, and widespread accessibility to the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitali Bhattacharyya , Hanxiao Wang , Feng Zhang , Sungho Kim , Xiatian Zhu

Privacy protection of medical image data is challenging. Even if metadata is removed, brain scans are vulnerable to attacks that match renderings of the face to facial image databases. Solutions have been developed to de-identify diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Lennart Alexander Van der Goten , Tobias Hepp , Zeynep Akata , Kevin Smith

Face morphing attacks seek to deceive a Face Recognition (FR) system by presenting a morphed image consisting of the biometric qualities from two different identities with the aim of triggering a false acceptance with one of the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zander W. Blasingame , Chen Liu

Face recognition systems are increasingly vulnerable to morphing attacks, where a composite image is crafted to match multiple identities, enabling unauthorized access and identity fraud. Existing detection methods identify morphed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nitish Shukla , Arun Ross

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

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

Photorealistic 3D avatar generation has rapidly improved in recent years, and realistic avatars that match a user's true appearance are more feasible in Mixed Reality (MR) than ever before. Yet, there are known risks to sharing one's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ethan Wilson , Vincent Bindschaedler , Sophie Jörg , Sean Sheikholeslam , Kevin Butler , Eakta Jain

Generally, privacy-enhancing face recognition systems are designed to offer permanent protection of face embeddings. Recently, so-called soft-biometric privacy-enhancement approaches have been introduced with the aim of canceling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daile Osorio-Roig , Paul A. Gerlitz , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Suspect face generation remains a technical challenge in crime investigations. Traditional sketch-drawing workflows suffer from low efficiency and quality, while diffusion-based approaches still face intrinsic limitations on conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Weichen Liu , Yixin Yang , Changsheng Chen , Alex Kot

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are widely adapted for anonymization of human figures. However, current state-of-the-art limit anonymization to the task of face anonymization. In this paper, we propose a novel anonymization framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Håkon Hukkelås , Frank Lindseth

This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Feifei Wang

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

An authentic face restoration system is becoming increasingly demanding in many computer vision applications, e.g., image enhancement, video communication, and taking portrait. Most of the advanced face restoration models can recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yang Zhao , Tingbo Hou , Yu-Chuan Su , Xuhui Jia. Yandong Li , Matthias Grundmann

The emergence of generative AI and controllable diffusion has made image-to-image synthesis increasingly practical and efficient. However, when input images exhibit low entropy and sparse, the inherent characteristics of diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hao Wang , Xiwen Chen , Ashish Bastola , Jiayou Qin , Abolfazl Razi

In artificial intelligence (AI), especially deep learning, data diversity and volume play a pivotal role in model development. However, training a robust deep learning model often faces challenges due to data privacy, regulations, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiao Chen , Shunan Zhang , Eric Z. Chen , Yikang Liu , Lin Zhao , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Existing person re-identification (Re-ID) methods principally deploy the ImageNet-1K dataset for model initialization, which inevitably results in sub-optimal situations due to the large domain gap. One of the key challenges is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ke Niu , Haiyang Yu , Xuelin Qian , Teng Fu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Person re-identification (Re-ID) often faces challenges due to variations in human poses and camera viewpoints, which significantly affect the appearance of individuals across images. Existing datasets frequently lack diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Inès Hyeonsu Kim , Woojeong Jin , Soowon Son , Junyoung Seo , Seokju Cho , JeongYeol Baek , Byeongwon Lee , JoungBin Lee , Seungryong Kim

With the deep integration of facial recognition into online banking, identity verification, and other networked services, achieving effective decoupling of identity information from visual representations during image storage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhuosen Bao , Xia Du , Zheng Lin , Jizhe Zhou , Zihan Fang , Jiening Wu , Yuxin Zhang , Zhe Chen , Chi-man Pun , Wei Ni , Jun Luo

The development of diffusion models has significantly advanced the research on image stylization, particularly in the area of stylizing a content image based on a given style image, which has attracted many scholars. The main challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhaoli Deng , Kaibin Zhou , Fanyi Wang , Zhenpeng Mi

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into medical diagnostics has raised pressing concerns about patient privacy, especially when sensitive imaging data must be transferred, stored, or processed. In this paper, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Abdullah Al Siam , Sadequzzaman Shohan