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Face anti-spoofing is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of face recognition systems. Several existing face anti-spoofing methods utilize GAN-like networks to detect presentation attacks by estimating the noise pattern of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bin Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zhen Lei

Advancements in face recognition (FR) technologies have amplified privacy concerns, necessitating methods that protect identity while maintaining recognition utility. Existing face anonymization methods typically focus on obscuring identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mohammed Talha Alam , Fahad Shamshad , Fakhri Karray , Karthik Nandakumar

Anonymization of medical images is necessary for protecting the identity of the test subjects, and is therefore an essential step in data sharing. However, recent developments in deep learning may raise the bar on the amount of distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 David Abramian , Anders Eklund

This paper investigates the dependence of existing state-of-the-art person re-identification models on the presence and visibility of human faces. We apply a face detection and blurring algorithm to create anonymized versions of several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Julia Dietlmeier , Joseph Antony , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor

In this paper, we present a new approach for facial anonymization in images and videos, abbreviated as FIVA. Our proposed method is able to maintain the same face anonymization consistently over frames with our suggested identity-tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Felix Rosberg , Eren Erdal Aksoy , Cristofer Englund , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

De-identification of face data has drawn increasing attention in recent years. It is important to protect people's identities meanwhile keeping the utility of the data in many computer vision tasks. We propose a Controllable Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tianxiang Ma , Dongze Li , Wei Wang , Jing Dong

Privacy of machine learning models is one of the remaining challenges that hinder the broad adoption of Artificial Intelligent (AI). This paper considers this problem in the context of image datasets containing faces. Anonymization of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minh-Ha Le , Niklas Carlsson

Biometric data contains distinctive human traits such as facial features or gait patterns. The use of biometric data permits an individuation so exact that the data is utilized effectively in identification and authentication systems. But…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Jose Patino , Nicholas Evans , Thorsten Strufe

Recently, productization of face recognition and identification algorithms have become the most controversial topic about ethical AI. As new policies around digital identities are formed, we introduce three face access models in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Umur A. Ciftci , Gokturk Yuksek , Ilke Demir

We propose AnonyGAN, a GAN-based solution for face anonymisation which replaces the visual information corresponding to a source identity with a condition identity provided as any single image. With the goal to maintain the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Nicola Dall'Asen , Yiming Wang , Hao Tang , Luca Zanella , Elisa Ricci

"Frontalization" is the process of synthesizing frontal facing views of faces appearing in single unconstrained photos. Recent reports have suggested that this process may substantially boost the performance of face recognition systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Tal Hassner , Shai Harel , Eran Paz , Roee Enbar

Face video anonymization is aimed at privacy preservation while allowing for the analysis of videos in a number of computer vision downstream tasks such as expression recognition, people tracking, and action recognition. We propose here a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anil Egin , Andrea Tangherloni , Antitza Dantcheva

Reversible face anonymization, unlike traditional face pixelization, seeks to replace sensitive identity information in facial images with synthesized alternatives, preserving privacy without sacrificing image clarity. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Haoxin Yang , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Jing Qin , Yi Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Shengfeng He

Face anonymization aims to conceal the visual identity of a face to safeguard the individual's privacy. Traditional methods like blurring and pixelation can largely remove identifying features, but these techniques significantly degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Lin Yuan , Kai Liang , Xiong Li , Tao Wu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Case-based explanations are an intuitive method to gain insight into the decision-making process of deep learning models in clinical contexts. However, medical images cannot be shared as explanations due to privacy concerns. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Helena Montenegro , Jaime S. Cardoso

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 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

Despite promising progress in face swapping task, realistic swapped images remain elusive, often marred by artifacts, particularly in scenarios involving high pose variation, color differences, and occlusion. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sanoojan Baliah , Qinliang Lin , Shengcai Liao , Xiaodan Liang , Muhammad Haris Khan