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Face recognition algorithms have demonstrated very high recognition performance, suggesting suitability for real world applications. Despite the enhanced accuracies, robustness of these algorithms against attacks and bias has been…

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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

In face recognition systems, facial templates are widely adopted for identity authentication due to their compliance with the data minimization principle. However, facial template inversion technologies have posed a severe privacy leakage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zixuan Shen , Zhihua Xia , Kaikai Gan , Peipeng Yu

Face enhancement techniques are widely used to enhance facial appearance. However, they can inadvertently distort biometric features, leading to significant decrease in the accuracy of deepfake detectors. This study hypothesizes that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Muhammad Saad Saeed , Ijaz Ul Haq , Khalid Malik

In this paper, we design and evaluate a convolutional autoencoder that perturbs an input face image to impart privacy to a subject. Specifically, the proposed autoencoder transforms an input face image such that the transformed image can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Vahid Mirjalili , Sebastian Raschka , Anoop Namboodiri , Arun Ross

Modern computer vision services often require users to share raw feature descriptors with an untrusted server. This presents an inherent privacy risk, as raw descriptors may be used to recover the source images from which they were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Francesco Pittaluga , Bingbing Zhuang

The proliferation of digital technologies has led to unprecedented data collection, with facial data emerging as a particularly sensitive commodity. Companies are increasingly leveraging advanced facial recognition technologies, often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Lambert Hogenhout , Rinzin Wangmo

Face recognition has achieved unprecedented results, surpassing human capabilities in certain scenarios. However, these automatic solutions are not ready for production because they can be easily fooled by simple identity impersonation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Daniel Pérez-Cabo , David Jiménez-Cabello , Artur Costa-Pazo , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Transformation-based privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) aims to verify identities while hiding facial data from attackers and malicious service providers. Existing evaluations mostly treat privacy as resistance to pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenqi Guo , Shan Du

Cameras are prevalent in our daily lives, and enable many useful systems built upon computer vision technologies such as smart cameras and home robots for service applications. However, there is also an increasing societal concern as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiuye Gu , Weixin Luo , Michael S. Ryoo , Yong Jae Lee

The proliferation of large AI models trained on uncurated, often sensitive web-scraped data has raised significant privacy concerns. One of the concerns is that adversaries can extract information about the training data using privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Daniel Neider , Kristian Kersting

Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of inverting face recognition systems, enabling to recover convincing face images using only their embeddings. We leverage such template inversion models to develop a novel type ofdeep morphing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Laurent Colbois , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

3D face reconstruction (3DFR) algorithms are based on specific assumptions tailored to the limits and characteristics of the different application scenarios. In this study, we investigate how multiple state-of-the-art 3DFR algorithms can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Simone Maurizio La Cava , Roberto Casula , Sara Concas , Giulia Orrù , Ruben Tolosana , Martin Drahansky , Julian Fierrez , Gian Luca Marcialis

In this paper, we propose a framework for disentangling the appearance and geometry representations in the face recognition task. To provide supervision for this aim, we generate geometrically identical faces by incorporating spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ali Dabouei , Fariborz Taherkhani , Sobhan Soleymani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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 deployment of facial recognition systems has created an ethical dilemma: achieving high accuracy requires massive datasets of real faces collected without consent, leading to dataset retractions and potential legal liabilities under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Paweł Borsukiewicz , Fadi Boutros , Iyiola E. Olatunji , Charles Beumier , Wendkûuni C. Ouedraogo , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Biometrics make human identification possible with a sample of a biometric trait and an associated database. Classical identification techniques lead to privacy concerns. This paper introduces a new method to identify someone using his…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-07 Julien Bringer , Herve Chabanne , Bruno Kindarji

Unprecedented data collection and sharing have exacerbated privacy concerns and led to increasing interest in privacy-preserving tools that remove sensitive attributes from images while maintaining useful information for other tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Kang Liu , Benjamin Tan , Siddharth Garg

Deeply-learned face representations enable the success of current face recognition systems. Despite the ability of these representations to encode the identity of an individual, recent works have shown that more information is stored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Philipp Terhörst , Daniel Fährmann , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Face recognition has been used more and more in real world applications in recent years. However, when the skin color bias is coupled with intra-personal variations like harsh illumination, the face recognition task is more likely to fail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Hongliu Cao , Minh Nhat Do , Alexis Ravanel , Eoin Thomas