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The widespread deployment of text-to-image models is challenged by their potential to generate harmful content. While existing safety methods, such as prompt rewriting or model fine-tuning, provide valuable interventions, they often…

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The proliferation of images captured from millions of cameras and the advancement of facial recognition (FR) technology have made the abuse of FR a severe privacy threat. Existing works typically rely on obfuscation, synthesis, or…

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Text-to-image diffusion models have been demonstrated with undesired generation due to unfiltered large-scale training data, such as sexual images and copyrights, necessitating the erasure of undesired concepts. Most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Xiaochuan Jin , Yue Jiang , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

The rapid advancement of diffusion models and personalization techniques has made it possible to recreate individual portraits from just a few publicly available images. While such capabilities empower various creative applications, they…

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The progress in generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), opened new possibilities for image generation but raised concerns about potential malicious uses, especially in sensitive areas like medical imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Pasqualino , Luca Guarnera , Alessandro Ortis , Sebastiano Battiato

Recently, text-to-image generative models have been misused to create unauthorized malicious images of individuals, posing a growing social problem. Previous solutions, such as Anti-DreamBooth, add adversarial noise to images to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Takuto Onikubo , Yusuke Matsui

Recent approaches employing imperceptible perturbations in input images have demonstrated promising potential to counter malicious manipulations in diffusion-based image editing systems. However, existing methods suffer from limited…

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The integrity of data visualizations is increasingly threatened by image editing techniques that enable subtle yet deceptive tampering. Through a formative study, we define this challenge and categorize tampering techniques into two primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sicheng Song , Yanjie Zhang , Zixin Chen , Huamin Qu , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Recent progress in diffusion models has profoundly enhanced the fidelity of image generation, but it has raised concerns about copyright infringements. While prior methods have introduced adversarial perturbations to prevent style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Namhyuk Ahn , Wonhyuk Ahn , KiYoon Yoo , Daesik Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

The rise of deep learning models in the digital era has raised substantial concerns regarding the generation of Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) content. Existing defense methods primarily involve model fine-tuning and post-hoc content moderation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xin Zhao , Xiaojun Chen , Yuexin Xuan , Zhendong Zhao , Xiaojun Jia , Xinfeng Li , Xiaofeng Wang

As text-to-image (T2I) models advance and gain widespread adoption, their associated safety concerns are becoming increasingly critical. Malicious users exploit these models to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images using harmful or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yiming Wang , Jiahao Chen , Qingming Li , Tong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Xing Yang , Shouling Ji

Malicious or manipulated prompts are known to exploit text-to-image models to generate unsafe images. Existing studies, however, focus on the passive exploitation of such harmful capabilities. In this paper, we investigate the proactive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

With the advance of generative AI, the text-to-image (T2I) model has the ability to generate various contents. However, the generated contents cannot be fully controlled. There is a potential risk that T2I model can generate unsafe images…

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Text-to-image diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of diffusion models can inadvertently lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Yuexiang Xie , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye , Yingda Chen , Yaliang Li

Despite their remarkable image generation capabilities, text-to-image diffusion models inadvertently learn inappropriate concepts from vast and unfiltered training data, which leads to various ethical and business risks. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yanhao Wang , Yaliang Li

With the development of generative models, the quality of generated content keeps increasing. Recently, open-source models have made it surprisingly easy to manipulate and edit photos and videos, with just a few simple prompts. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guanlin Li , Shuai Yang , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang

Text-to-image (T2I) models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited remarkable performance in generating high-quality images from text descriptions in recent years. However, text-to-image models may be tricked into generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinfeng Li , Yuchen Yang , Jiangyi Deng , Chen Yan , Yanjiao Chen , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu

Artists are increasingly concerned about advancements in image generation models that can closely replicate their unique artistic styles. In response, several protection tools against style mimicry have been developed that incorporate small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Robert Hönig , Javier Rando , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr

In the era where AI-generated content (AIGC) models can produce stunning and lifelike images, the lingering shadow of unauthorized reproductions and malicious tampering poses imminent threats to copyright integrity and information security.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xuanyu Zhang , Runyi Li , Jiwen Yu , Youmin Xu , Weiqi Li , Jian Zhang

Recently, text-to-image diffusion models have been widely used for style mimicry and personalized customization through methods such as DreamBooth and Textual Inversion. This has raised concerns about intellectual property protection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yanjie Li , Wenxuan Zhang , Xinqi Lyu , Yihao Liu , Bin Xiao