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In this work, we investigate the concept of biometric backdoors: a template poisoning attack on biometric systems that allows adversaries to stealthily and effortlessly impersonate users in the long-term by exploiting the template update…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Giulio Lovisotto , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

Face recognition systems extract embedding vectors from face images and use these embeddings to verify or identify individuals. Face reconstruction attack (also known as template inversion) refers to reconstructing face images from face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Anjith George , Sébastien Marcel

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) become increasingly prevalent in a variety of fields, from social network analysis to protein-protein interaction studies, growing concerns have emerged regarding the unauthorized utilization of personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yixin Liu , Chenrui Fan , Xun Chen , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

Biometrics emerged as a robust solution for security systems. However, given the dissemination of biometric applications, criminals are developing techniques to circumvent them by simulating physical or behavioral traits of legal users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Gustavo Botelho de Souza , João Paulo Papa , Aparecido Nilceu Marana

Facial recognition systems have become an integral part of the modern world. These methods accomplish the task of human identification in an automatic, fast, and non-interfering way. Past research has uncovered high vulnerability to simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Moritz Finke , Alexandra Dmitrienko

As billions of personal data being shared through social media and network, the data privacy and security have drawn an increasing attention. Several attempts have been made to alleviate the leakage of identity information from face photos,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Hui Xue

In recent years, face biometric security systems are rapidly increasing, therefore, the presentation attack detection (PAD) has received significant attention from research communities and has become a major field of research. Researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Seyedkooshan Hashemifard , Mohammad Akbari

This paper proposes PolyProtect, a method for protecting the sensitive face embeddings that are used to represent people's faces in neural-network-based face verification systems. PolyProtect transforms a face embedding to a more secure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Vedrana Krivokuća Hahn , Sébastien Marcel

Face recognition systems store face templates for efficient matching. Once leaked, these templates pose a threat: inverting them can yield photorealistic surrogates that compromise privacy and enable impersonation. Although existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Longchen Dai , Zixuan Shen , Zhiheng Zhou , Peipeng Yu , Zhihua Xia

DeepFake face swapping presents a significant threat to online security and social media, which can replace the source face in an arbitrary photo/video with the target face of an entirely different person. In order to prevent this fraud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Junhao Dong , Yuan Wang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Face modification systems using deep learning have become increasingly powerful and accessible. Given images of a person's face, such systems can generate new images of that same person under different expressions and poses. Some systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal , Stan Sclaroff

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

The boosting on the need of security notably increased the amount of possible facial recognition applications, especially due to the success of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. However, although handcrafted and deep learning-inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Giulia Orrù , Gian Luca Marcialis , Fabio Roli

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in realistic voice cloning (VC), while they also increase the risk of malicious misuse. Existing proactive defenses designed for traditional VC models aim to disrupt the forgery…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qianyue Hu , Junyan Wu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Generative models learn the distribution of data from a sample dataset and can then generate new data instances. Recent advances in deep learning has brought forth improvements in generative model architectures, and some state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Luke A. Bauer , Vincent Bindschaedler

With the wide application of biometrics, more and more attention has been paid to the security of biometric templates. However most of existing biometric template protection (BTP) methods have some security problems, e.g. the problem that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Baogang Song , Dongdong Zhao , Jiang Yan , Huanhuan Li , Hao Jiang

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

Advances in computer vision have brought us to the point where we have the ability to synthesise realistic fake content. Such approaches are seen as a source of disinformation and mistrust, and pose serious concerns to governments around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Tharindu Fernando , Clinton Fookes , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan

Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

Recent advances in facial landmark detection achieve success by learning discriminative features from rich deformation of face shapes and poses. Besides the variance of faces themselves, the intrinsic variance of image styles, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Xuanyi Dong , Yan Yan , Wanli Ouyang , Yi Yang