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Latent diffusion models can be used as a powerful augmentation method to artificially extend datasets for enhanced training. To the human eye, these augmented images look very different to the originals. Previous work has suggested to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Valentin Haug , Rainer Lienhart

To protect privacy and prevent malicious use of deepfake, current studies propose methods that interfere with the generation process, such as detection and destruction approaches. However, these methods suffer from sub-optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gido Kato , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Mariko Isogawa , Hideki Tsunashima , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Shigeo Morishima

Lensless imaging protects visual privacy by capturing heavily blurred images that are imperceptible for humans to recognize the subject but contain enough information for machines to infer information. Unfortunately, protecting visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Thuong Nguyen Canh , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Privacy protection in medical data is a legitimate obstacle for centralized machine learning applications. Here, we propose a client-server image segmentation system which allows for the analysis of multi-centric medical images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Bach Kim , Jose Dolz , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Christian Desrosiers

Recent advances in generative image editing have enabled transformative applications, from professional head shot generation to avatar stylization. However, these systems often require uploading high-fidelity facial images to third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dipesh Tamboli , Vineet Punyamoorty , Atharv Pawar , Vaneet Aggarwal

The unprecedented increase in the usage of computer vision technology in society goes hand in hand with an increased concern in data privacy. In many real-world scenarios like people tracking or action recognition, it is important to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Maxim Maximov , Ismail Elezi , Laura Leal-Taixé

Recent advances in score-based generative models have led to a huge spike in the development of downstream applications using generative models ranging from data augmentation over image and video generation to anomaly detection. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mischa Dombrowski , Bernhard Kainz

With an increasing number of users sharing information online, privacy implications entailing such actions are a major concern. For explicit content, such as user profile or GPS data, devices (e.g. mobile phones) as well as web services…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Thanks to the recent development of deep generative models, it is becoming possible to generate high-quality images with both fidelity and diversity. However, the training of such generative models requires a large dataset. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Atsuhiro Noguchi , Tatsuya Harada

The improved semantic understanding of vision-language pretrained (VLP) models has made it increasingly difficult to protect publicly posted images from being exploited by search engines and other similar tools. In this context, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xuelin Shen , Jiayin Xu , Kangsheng Yin , Wenhan Yang

The model of camera that was used to capture a particular photographic image (model attribution) is typically inferred from high-frequency model-specific artifacts present within the image. Model anonymization is the process of transforming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Jerone T. A. Andrews , Yidan Zhang , Lewis D. Griffin

Sharing images online poses security threats to a wide range of users due to the unawareness of privacy information. Deep features have been demonstrated to be a powerful representation for images. However, deep features usually suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Chiranjibi Sitaula , Yong Xiang , Sunil Aryal , Xuequan Lu

Proactive defense methods protect portrait images from unauthorized editing or talking face generation (TFG) by introducing pixel-level protective perturbations, and have already attracted increasing attention for privacy protection. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ruiqing Sun , Xingshan Yao , Zhijing Wu , Tian Lan , Chenhao Cui , Huiyang Zhao , Jialing Shi , Chen Yang , Xianling Mao

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving image classification method that is based on the combined use of encrypted images and the vision transformer (ViT). The proposed method allows us not only to apply images without visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zheng Qi , AprilPyone MaungMaung , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging. We propose a new hybrid approach to obfuscate identities in photos by head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Qianru Sun , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Mario Fritz , Christian Theobalt , Bernt Schiele

Deep neural networks are extensively applied to real-world tasks, such as face recognition and medical image classification, where privacy and data protection are critical. Image data, if not protected, can be exploited to infer personal or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Weiheng Chai , Brian Testa , Huantao Ren , Asif Salekin , Senem Velipasalar

With the rapid progress in diffusion models, image synthesis has advanced to the stage of zero-shot image-to-image generation, where high-fidelity replication of facial identities or artistic styles can be achieved using just one portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jun Jia , Hongyi Miao , Yingjie Zhou , Wangqiu Zhou , Jianbo Zhang , Linhan Cao , Dandan Zhu , Hua Yang , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Sun , Guangtao Zhai

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

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

Pose estimation is an important technique for nonverbal human-robot interaction. That said, the presence of a camera in a person's space raises privacy concerns and could lead to distrust of the robot. In this paper, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Youya Xia , Yifan Tang , Yuhan Hu , Guy Hoffman