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Face anonymization aims to protect sensitive identity information by altering faces while preserving visual realism and utility for downstream computer vision tasks. Current methods struggle to simultaneously ensure high image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Pol Labarbarie , Vincent Itier , William Puech

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

The growing use of portrait images in computer vision highlights the need to protect personal identities. At the same time, anonymized images must remain useful for downstream computer vision tasks. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Guoying Zhao

The widespread sharing of face images on social media platforms and in large-scale datasets raises pressing privacy concerns, as biometric identifiers can be exploited without consent. Face anonymization seeks to generate realistic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Raimondo Schettini

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

Face images are a rich source of information that can be used to identify individuals and infer private information about them. To mitigate this privacy risk, anonymizations employ transformations on clear images to obfuscate sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Julian Todt , Simon Hanisch , Thorsten Strufe

The increasing prevalence of computer vision applications necessitates handling vast amounts of visual data, often containing personal information. While this technology offers significant benefits, it should not compromise privacy. Data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Generative techniques for image anonymization have great potential to generate datasets that protect the privacy of those depicted in the images, while achieving high data fidelity and utility. Existing methods have focused extensively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Luca Piano , Pietro Basci , Fabrizio Lamberti , Lia Morra

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

In response to rising societal awareness of privacy concerns, face anonymization techniques have advanced, including the emergence of face-swapping methods that replace one identity with another. Achieving a balance between anonymity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Haruka Kumagai , Leslie Wöhler , Satoshi Ikehata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

The unprecedented capture and application of face images raise increasing concerns on anonymization to fight against privacy disclosure. Most existing methods may suffer from the problem of excessive change of the identity-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhenzhong Kuang , Xiaochen Yang , Yingjie Shen , Chao Hu , Jun Yu

In recent years, the increasing availability of personal data has raised concerns regarding privacy and security. One of the critical processes to address these concerns is data anonymization, which aims to protect individual privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fabio Hellmann , Silvan Mertes , Mohamed Benouis , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Cristina Conati , Peter Krawitz , Elisabeth André

Privacy protection has become a top priority as the proliferation of AI techniques has led to widespread collection and misuse of personal data. Anonymization and visual identity information hiding are two important facial privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation of realistic facial images conditioned on textual prompts and human identities, enabling creating personalized facial imagery. However, existing prompt-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Nicu Sebe

The increasing demand for large-scale visual data, coupled with strict privacy regulations, has driven research into anonymization methods that hide personal identities without seriously degrading data quality. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mustafa İzzet Muştu , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Anonymization plays a key role in protecting sensible information of individuals in real world datasets. Self-driving cars for example need high resolution facial features to track people and their viewing direction to predict future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Pascal Zwick , Kevin Roesch , Marvin Klemp , Oliver Bringmann

We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images while retaining the original data distribution. We ensure total anonymization of all faces in an image by generating images exclusively on privacy-safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Håkon Hukkelås , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

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

This work addresses the problem of anonymizing the identity of faces in a dataset of images, such that the privacy of those depicted is not violated, while at the same time the dataset is useful for downstream task such as for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Simone Barattin , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Nicu Sebe

With the rise of cameras and smart sensors, humanity generates an exponential amount of data. This valuable information, including underrepresented cases like AI in medical settings, can fuel new deep-learning tools. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zikui Cai , Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Terrence Chen , M. Salman Asif , Ziyan Wu
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