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Many outdoor autonomous mobile platforms require more human identity anonymized data to power their data-driven algorithms. The human identity anonymization should be robust so that less manual intervention is needed, which remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hengyuan Zhang , Jing-Yan Liao , David Paz , Henrik I. Christensen

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 representation used for Facial Expression Recognition (FER) usually contain expression information along with other variations such as identity and illumination. In this paper, we propose a novel Disentangled Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Kamran Ali , Charles E. Hughes

Diffusion models have recently shown strong progress in generative tasks, offering a more stable alternative to GAN-based approaches for makeup transfer. Existing methods often suffer from limited datasets, poor disentanglement between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qihe Pan , Yiming Wu , Xing Zhao , Liang Xie , Guodao Sun , Ronghua Liang

Photos of faces uploaded online are vulnerable to malicious actors who can scrape facial images from online sources and intrude on personal privacy via unauthorized use of facial recognition models. This paper presents FaceCloak, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zachary Yahn , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Selim Tekin , Sihao Hu , Yichang Xu , Margaret Loper , Ling Liu

In this work, we address activity-biometrics, which involves identifying individuals across diverse set of activities. Unlike traditional person identification, this setting introduces additional challenges as identity cues become entangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Shehreen Azad , Yogesh S Rawat

Facial Appearance Editing (FAE) aims to modify physical attributes, such as pose, expression and lighting, of human facial images while preserving attributes like identity and background, showing great importance in photograph. In spite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qilin Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Chengming Xu , Weijian Cao , Ying Tai , Yue Han , Yanhao Ge , Hong Gu , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Although person re-identification has made impressive progress, occlusion caused by obstacles remains an unsettled issue in real applications. The difficulty lies in the mismatch between incomplete occluded samples and holistic identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lei Tan , Yingshi Luan , Pincong Zou , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Surveillance systems play a critical role in security and reconnaissance, but their performance is often compromised by low-quality images and videos, leading to reduced accuracy in face recognition. Additionally, existing AI-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Anees Nashath Shaik , Barbara Villarini , Vasileios Argyriou

We introduce a novel formulation of visual privacy preservation for video foundation models that operates entirely in the latent space. While spatio-temporal features learned by foundation models have deepened general understanding of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joseph Fioresi , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Mubarak Shah

The increasing availability of sensitive textual data has created an urgent need for robust de-identification methods that enable compliant data sharing while preserving downstream utility. This paper presents DeID-Clinic, a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Angel Paul , Dhivin Shaji , Lifeng Han , Warren Del-Pinto , Goran Nenadic , Suzan Verberne

Biometric authentication systems play a crucial role in modern security systems. However, maintaining the balance of privacy and integrity of stored biometrics derivative data while achieving high recognition accuracy is often challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Dmytro Zakharov , Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Emanuele Frontoni

Image matting requires high-quality pixel-level human annotations to support the training of a deep model in recent literature. Whereas such annotation is costly and hard to scale, significantly holding back the development of the research.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yanda Li , Zilong Huang , Gang Yu , Ling Chen , Yunchao Wei , Jianbo Jiao

State-of-the-art deep networks implicitly encode gender information while being trained for face recognition. Gender is often viewed as an important attribute with respect to identifying faces. However, the implicit encoding of gender…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Prithviraj Dhar , Joshua Gleason , Hossein Souri , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

This paper proposes an encoder-decoder network to disentangle shape features during 3D face reconstruction from single 2D images, such that the tasks of reconstructing accurate 3D face shapes and learning discriminative shape features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Feng Liu , Ronghang Zhu , Dan Zeng , Qijun Zhao , Xiaoming Liu

In today's digital landscape, journalists urgently require tools to verify the authenticity of facial images and videos depicting specific public figures before incorporating them into news stories. Existing deepfake detectors are not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mushfiqur Rahman , Runze Liu , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Face de-identification methods have been proposed to preserve users' privacy by obscuring their faces. These methods, however, can degrade the quality of photos, and they usually do not preserve the utility of faces, i.e., their age,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi , Shirin Nilizadeh

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

Character re-identification, recognizing characters consistently across different panels in comics, presents significant challenges due to limited annotated data and complex variations in character appearances. To tackle this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Gürkan Soykan , Deniz Yuret , Tevfik Metin Sezgin

The growing public concerns on data privacy in face recognition can be greatly addressed by the federated learning (FL) paradigm. However, conventional FL methods perform poorly due to the uniqueness of the task: broadcasting class centers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qiang Meng , Feng Zhou , Hainan Ren , Tianshu Feng , Guochao Liu , Yuanqing Lin