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Proactive defense methods protect portrait images from unauthorized editing or talking face generation (TFG) by introducing pixel-level protective perturbations, and have already attracted increasing attention for privacy protection. In…

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Diffusion models enable high-fidelity image editing but can also be misused for unauthorized style imitation and harmful content generation. To mitigate these risks, proactive image protection methods embed small, often imperceptible…

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Personalized concept generation by tuning diffusion models with a few images raises potential legal and ethical concerns regarding privacy and intellectual property rights. Researchers attempt to prevent malicious personalization using…

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Generative models have enabled easy creation and generation of images of all kinds given a single prompt. However, this has also raised ethical concerns about what is an actual piece of content created by humans or cameras compared to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Aryaman Shaan , Garvit Banga , Raghav Mantri

Ensuring fairness in NLP models is crucial, as they often encode sensitive attributes like gender and ethnicity, leading to biased outcomes. Current concept erasure methods attempt to mitigate this by modifying final latent representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Fanny Jourdan , Louis Béthune , Agustin Picard , Laurent Risser , Nicholas Asher

Despite the notable advancements and versatility of multi-modal diffusion models, such as text-to-image models, their susceptibility to adversarial inputs remains underexplored. Contrary to expectations, our investigations reveal that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Shaokang Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as an evolutionary for producing creative content in image synthesis. Based on the impressive generation abilities of these models, instruction-guided diffusion models can edit images with simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ruoxi Chen , Haibo Jin , Yixin Liu , Jinyin Chen , Haohan Wang , Lichao Sun

Text-to-image generative models are widely deployed in creative tools and online platforms. To mitigate misuse, these systems rely on safety filters and moderation pipelines that aim to block harmful or policy violating content. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ahmed B Mustafa , Zihan Ye , Yang Lu , Michael P Pound , Shreyank N Gowda

As generative models achieve great success, tampering and modifying the sensitive image contents (i.e., human faces, artist signatures, commercial logos, etc.) have induced a significant threat with social impact. The backdoor attack is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Haichuan Zhang , Meiyu Lin , Zhaoyi Liu , Renyuan Li , Zhiyuan Cheng , Carl Yang , Mingjie Tang

Recent advancements in Text-to-Image (T2I) models have raised significant safety concerns about their potential misuse for generating inappropriate or Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) contents, despite existing countermeasures such as NSFW…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yijun Yang , Ruiyuan Gao , Xiao Yang , Jianyuan Zhong , Qiang Xu

Although diffusion-based techniques have shown remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks, their abuse can lead to severe negative social impacts. Recently, some works have been proposed to provide defense against the abuse of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zheng Li , Liangbin Xie , Jiantao Zhou , Xintao Wang , Haiwei Wu , Jinyu Tian

Recent progress in text-to-image diffusion models has transformed image editing via text prompts, yet this also introduces significant ethical challenges from potential misuse in creating deceptive or harmful content. While current defenses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jie Zhang , Shuai Dong , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Current image generation models can effortlessly produce high-quality, highly realistic images, but this also increases the risk of misuse. In various Text-to-Image or Image-to-Image tasks, attackers can generate a series of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Hao Cheng , Erjia Xiao , Jiayan Yang , Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Jize Zhang , Kaidi Xu , Jindong Gu , Renjing Xu

Concept Erasure, which aims to prevent pretrained text-to-image models from generating content associated with semantic-harmful concepts (i.e., target concepts), is getting increased attention. State-of-the-art methods formulate this task…

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Not Safe/Suitable for Work (NSFW) content is rampant on social networks and poses serious harm to citizens, especially minors. Current detection methods mainly rely on deep learning-based image recognition and classification. However, NSFW…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Han Bao , Qinying Wang , Zhi Chen , Qingming Li , Xuhong Zhang , Changjiang Li , Zonghui Wang , Shouling Ji , Wenzhi Chen

Stable Diffusion has established itself as a foundation model in generative AI artistic applications, receiving widespread research and application. Some recent fine-tuning methods have made it feasible for individuals to implant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhengyue Zhao , Jinhao Duan , Kaidi Xu , Chenan Wang , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Xing Hu

We present an approach to mitigating the risks of malicious image editing posed by large diffusion models. The key idea is to immunize images so as to make them resistant to manipulation by these models. This immunization relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Hadi Salman , Alaa Khaddaj , Guillaume Leclerc , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made fine-tuning text-to-image models for personalization increasingly accessible, but have also raised significant concerns regarding unauthorized data usage and privacy infringement. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hojun Lee , Mijin Koo , Yeji Song , Nojun Kwak

With the increasing prevalence of diffusion-based malicious image manipulation, existing proactive defense methods struggle to safeguard images against tampering under unknown conditions. To address this, we propose Anti-Inpainting, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yimao Guo , Zuomin Qu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Text-to-image diffusion models have been widely adopted in real-world applications due to their ability to generate realistic images from textual descriptions. However, recent studies have shown that these methods are vulnerable to backdoor…

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