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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 issue of detecting deepfakes has garnered significant attention in the research community, with the goal of identifying facial manipulations for abuse prevention. Although recent studies have focused on developing generalized models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jiazhi Guan , Tianshu Hu , Hang Zhou , Zhizhi Guo , Lirui Deng , Chengbin Quan , Errui Ding , Youjian Zhao

Face personalization aims to insert specific faces, taken from images, into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However, it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Statistical methods protecting sensitive information or the identity of the data owner have become critical to ensure privacy of individuals as well as of organizations. This paper investigates anonymization methods based on representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Clément Feutry , Pablo Piantanida , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre Duhamel

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

Face images are rich data items that are useful and can easily be collected in many applications, such as in 1-to-1 face verification tasks in the domain of security and surveillance systems. Multiple methods have been proposed to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Yasin N. Silva , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

Facial Expression Analysis remains a challenging task due to unexpected task-irrelevant noise, such as identity, head pose, and background. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel framework, called Norface, that is unified for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hanwei Liu , Rudong An , Zhimeng Zhang , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Yan Song , Yujing Hu , Wei Chen , Yu Ding

Patient face images provide a convenient mean for evaluating eye diseases, while also raising privacy concerns. Here, we introduce ROFI, a deep learning-based privacy protection framework for ophthalmology. Using weakly supervised learning…

Current face de-identification methods that replace identifiable cues in the face region with other sacrifices utilities contributing to realism, such as age and gender. To retrieve the damaged realism, we present FLUID (Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jinhyeong Park , Shaheryar Muhammad , Seangmin Lee , Jong Taek Lee , Soon Ki Jung

This work presents FlashFace, a practical tool with which users can easily personalize their own photos on the fly by providing one or a few reference face images and a text prompt. Our approach is distinguishable from existing human photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shilong Zhang , Lianghua Huang , Xi Chen , Yifei Zhang , Zhi-Fan Wu , Yutong Feng , Wei Wang , Yujun Shen , Yu Liu , Ping Luo

Tuning-free face personalization methods have developed along two distinct paradigms: text embedding approaches that map facial features into the text embedding space, and adapter-based methods that inject features through auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Lianyu Pang , Ji Zhou , Qiping Wang , Baoquan Zhao , Zhenguo Yang , Qing Li , Xudong Mao

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

The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yang Luo , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

Wide-scale use of visual surveillance in public spaces puts individual privacy at stake while increasing resource consumption (energy, bandwidth, and computation). Neuromorphic vision sensors (event-cameras) have been recently considered a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shafiq Ahmad , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue

We introduce a novel formulation of visual privacy preservation for video foundation models that operates entirely in the latent space. While spatio-temporal features learned by foundation models have deepened general understanding of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joseph Fioresi , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Mubarak Shah

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

With the rise of open data, identifiability of individuals based on 3D renderings obtained from routine structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the head has become a growing privacy concern. To protect subject privacy, several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Nataliia Molchanova , Bénédicte Maréchal , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Tobias Kober , Till Huelnhagen , Jonas Richiardi

The steadily increasing utilization of data-driven methods and approaches in areas that handle sensitive personal information such as in law enforcement mandates an ever increasing effort in these institutions to comply with data protection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Manuel Eberhardinger , Patrick Takenaka , Daniel Grießhaber , Johannes Maucher

An important aspect of deploying face recognition (FR) algorithms in real-world applications is their ability to learn new face identities from a continuous data stream. However, the online training of existing deep neural network-based FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Md Mahedi Hasan , Shoaib Meraj Sami , Nasser Nasrabadi

Biometric authentication systems play a crucial role in modern security systems. However, maintaining the balance of privacy and integrity of stored biometrics derivative data while achieving high recognition accuracy is often challenging.…

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