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The task of privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) currently faces two major unsolved challenges: (1) existing methods are typically effective only on specific face recognition models and struggle to generalize to black-box face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuanwei Liu , Chengyu Jia , Ruqi Xiao , Xuemai Jia , Hui Wei , Kui Jiang , Zheng Wang

The use of AI in public spaces continually raises concerns about privacy and the protection of sensitive data. An example is the deployment of detection and recognition methods on humans, where images are provided by surveillance cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christoph Liebender , Ranulfo Bezerra , Kazunori Ohno , Satoshi Tadokoro

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

Lensless cameras, innovatively replacing traditional lenses for ultra-thin, flat optics, encode light directly onto sensors, producing images that are not immediately recognizable. This compact, lightweight, and cost-effective imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xin Cai , Hailong Zhang , Chenchen Wang , Wentao Liu , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

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

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

Image anonymization is widely adapted in practice to comply with privacy regulations in many regions. However, anonymization often degrades the quality of the data, reducing its utility for computer vision development. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Håkon Hukkelås , Frank Lindseth

Ensuring the ethical use of video data involving human subjects, particularly infants, requires robust anonymization methods. We propose BLANKET (Baby-face Landmark-preserving ANonymization with Keypoint dEtection consisTency), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ditmar Hadera , Jan Cech , Miroslav Purkrabek , Matej Hoffmann

With rising technologies, the protection of privacy-sensitive information is becoming increasingly important. In industry and production facilities, image or video recordings are beneficial for documentation, tracing production errors or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Sabrina Cynthia Triess , Timo Leitritz , Christian Jauch

The increasing capabilities of deep neural networks for re-identification, combined with the rise in public surveillance in recent years, pose a substantial threat to individual privacy. Event cameras were initially considered as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Nicole Thiemer , Karen Joisten , Didier Stricker

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

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

We propose a novel method that leverages 3D information to automatically anonymize multi-view RGB-D video recordings of operating rooms (OR). Our anonymization method preserves the original data distribution by replacing the faces in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tony Danjun Wang

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

Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, generate highly realistic images from text descriptions. However, the generation of certain content at such high quality raises concerns. A prominent issue is the accurate depiction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Liang Shi , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan

In order to protect vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians or cyclists, it is essential that intelligent transportation systems (ITS) accurately identify them. Therefore, datasets used to train perception models of ITS must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Marvin Klemp , Kevin Rösch , Royden Wagner , Jannik Quehl , Martin Lauer

In the contemporary digital era, protection of personal information has become a paramount issue. The exponential growth of the media industry has heightened concerns regarding the anonymization of individuals captured in video footage.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Byunghyun Ban , Hyoseok Lee

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

Since the introduction of the GDPR and CCPA legislation, both public and private facial image datasets are increasingly scrutinized. Several datasets have been taken offline completely and some have been anonymized. However, it is unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Sander R. Klomp , Matthew van Rijn , Rob G. J. Wijnhoven , Cees G. M. Snoek , Peter H. N. de With