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High quality facial image editing is a challenging problem in the movie post-production industry, requiring a high degree of control and identity preservation. Previous works that attempt to tackle this problem may suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

Recent advancements in diffusion models revolutionize image generation but pose risks of misuse, such as replicating artworks or generating deepfakes. Existing image protection methods, though effective, struggle to balance protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Namhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Wonhyuk Ahn , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

Over the past years, the main research innovations in face recognition focused on training deep neural networks on large-scale identity-labeled datasets using variations of multi-class classification losses. However, many of these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Existing face stylization methods always acquire the presence of the target (style) domain during the translation process, which violates privacy regulations and limits their applicability in real-world systems. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yuhe Ding , Jian Liang , Jie Cao , Aihua Zheng , Ran He

Despite the success of diffusion-based customization methods on visual content creation, increasing concerns have been raised about such techniques from both privacy and political perspectives. To tackle this issue, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Feifei Wang , Zhentao Tan , Tianyi Wei , Yue Wu , Qidong Huang

Visual localization is the task of estimating the camera pose of an image relative to a scene representation. In practice, visual localization systems are often cloud-based. Naturally, this raises privacy concerns in terms of revealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Vojtech Panek , Patrik Beliansky , Zuzana Kukelova , Torsten Sattler

Large-scale image datasets frequently contain identifiable or sensitive content, raising privacy risks when training models that may memorize and leak such information. We present Unsafe2Safe, a fully automated pipeline that detects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mih Dinh , SouYoung Jin

Human motion is a behavioral biometric trait that can be used to identify individuals and infer private attributes such as medical conditions. This poses a serious threat to privacy as motion extraction from video and motion capture are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Thorsten Strufe

Portrait customization (PC) has recently garnered significant attention due to its potential applications. However, existing PC methods lack precise identity (ID) preservation and face control. To address these tissues, we propose Diff-PC,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifang Xu , Benxiang Zhai , Chenyu Zhang , Ming Li , Yang Li , Sidan Du

Despite remarkable success in unpaired image-to-image translation, existing systems still require a large amount of labeled images. This is a bottleneck for their real-world applications; in practice, a model trained on labeled CelebA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hyojin Bahng , Sunghyo Chung , Seungjoo Yoo , Jaegul Choo

Recent advancements in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have enabled large-scale collaboration among clinicians and researchers for neuroimaging tasks. However, researchers are often forced to use outdated and slow software to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Anish Khazane , Julien Hoachuck , Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski , Russell A. Poldrack

Facial recognition systems have achieved remarkable success by leveraging deep neural networks, advanced loss functions, and large-scale datasets. However, their performance often deteriorates in real-world scenarios involving low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sadaf Gulshad , Abdullah Aldahlawi

While 3D head reconstruction is widely used for modeling, existing neural reconstruction approaches rely on high-resolution multi-view images, posing notable privacy issues. Individuals are particularly sensitive to facial features, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiayi Kong , Xurui Song , Shuo Huai , Baixin Xu , Jun Luo , Ying He

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

Today's proliferation of powerful facial recognition systems poses a real threat to personal privacy. As Clearview.ai demonstrated, anyone can canvas the Internet for data and train highly accurate facial recognition models of individuals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shawn Shan , Emily Wenger , Jiayun Zhang , Huiying Li , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Face deidentification is an active topic amongst privacy and security researchers. Early deidentification methods relying on image blurring or pixelization were replaced in recent years with techniques based on formal anonymity models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Blaž Meden , Refik Can Mallı , Sebastjan Fabijan , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

The performance of automated face recognition systems is inevitably impacted by the facial aging process. However, high quality datasets of individuals collected over several years are typically small in scale. In this work, we propose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sudipta Banerjee , Govind Mittal , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

As face recognition becomes more widespread in government and commercial services, its potential misuse raises serious concerns about privacy and civil rights. To counteract this threat, various anti-facial recognition techniques have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Youngjin Kwon , Xiao Zhang

We demonstrate that modern image recognition methods based on artificial neural networks can recover hidden information from images protected by various forms of obfuscation. The obfuscation techniques considered in this paper are mosaicing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Richard McPherson , Reza Shokri , Vitaly Shmatikov

As cameras become ubiquitous in our living environment, invasion of privacy is becoming a growing concern. A common approach to privacy preservation is to remove personally identifiable information from a captured image, but there is a risk…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yoko Sogabe , Shiori Sugimoto , Ayumi Matsumoto , Masaki Kitahara