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The widespread use of image acquisition technologies, along with advances in facial recognition, has raised serious privacy concerns. Face de-identification usually refers to the process of concealing or replacing personal identifiers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

Face recognition (FR) can be abused for privacy intrusion. Governments, private companies, or even individual attackers can collect facial images by web scraping to build an FR system identifying human faces without their consent. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ka-Ho Chow , Sihao Hu , Tiansheng Huang , Ling Liu

Face stylization refers to the transformation of a face into a specific portrait style. However, current methods require the use of example-based adaptation approaches to fine-tune pre-trained generative models so that they demand lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Chao Jin , Ran He

Diffusion models have achieved notable success in image generation, but they remain highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which compromise their integrity by producing specific undesirable outputs when presented with a pre-defined trigger.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yichuan Mo , Hui Huang , Mingjie Li , Ang Li , Yisen Wang

This paper proposes PolyProtect, a method for protecting the sensitive face embeddings that are used to represent people's faces in neural-network-based face verification systems. PolyProtect transforms a face embedding to a more secure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Vedrana Krivokuća Hahn , Sébastien Marcel

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

Nowadays, facial recognition systems are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. These attacks vary from simple perturbations of the input image to modifying the parameters of the recognition model to impersonate an authorised subject.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daile Osorio-Roig , Mahdi Ghafourian , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Christoph Busch , Julian Fierrez

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

Face privacy-preserving is one of the hotspots that arises dramatic interests of research. However, the existing face privacy-preserving methods aim at causing the missing of semantic information of face and cannot preserve the reusability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yang Yang , Yiyang Huang , Ming Shi , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Despite recent progress in diffusion models, generating realistic head portraits from novel viewpoints remains a significant challenge. Most current approaches are constrained to limited angular ranges, predominantly focusing on frontal or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Bernhard Kainz , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

With the rapid increase in online photo sharing activities, image obfuscation algorithms become particularly important for protecting the sensitive information in the shared photos. However, existing image obfuscation methods based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sen Liu , Jianxin Lin , Zhibo Chen

Diffusion-based personalized visual content generation technologies have achieved significant breakthroughs, allowing for the creation of specific objects by just learning from a few reference photos. However, when misused to fabricate fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jing Yang , Runping Xi , Yingxin Lai , Xun Lin , Zitong Yu

Face recognition systems rely on learning highly discriminative and compact identity clusters to enable accurate retrieval. However, as with other surveillance-oriented technologies, such systems raise serious privacy concerns due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mikhail Zakharov

The excessive use of images in social networks, government databases, and industrial applications has posed great privacy risks and raised serious concerns from the public. Even though differential privacy (DP) is a widely accepted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hanyu Xue , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Li Song , Wanlei Zhou

With the development of deep learning technology, the facial manipulation system has become powerful and easy to use. Such systems can modify the attributes of the given facial images, such as hair color, gender, and age. Malicious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Xiang Tian , Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen

Since photorealistic faces can be readily generated by facial manipulation technologies nowadays, potential malicious abuse of these technologies has drawn great concerns. Numerous deepfake detection methods are thus proposed. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Rui Shao , Tianxing Wu , Ziwei Liu

Video face restoration aims to enhance degraded face videos into high-quality results with realistic facial details, stable identity, and temporal coherence. Recent diffusion-based methods have brought strong generative priors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheng Chen , Bowen Chai , Rongjun Gao , Mingtao Nie , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Xiaohong Liu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information about the scene or subjects, e.g., by reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mihai Dusmanu , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

Detecting diffusion-generated images has recently grown into an emerging research area. Existing diffusion-based datasets predominantly focus on general image generation. However, facial forgeries, which pose a more severe social risk, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Harry Cheng , Yangyang Guo , Tianyi Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli