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We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images while retaining the original data distribution. We ensure total anonymization of all faces in an image by generating images exclusively on privacy-safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Håkon Hukkelås , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

Adversarial purification has achieved great success in combating adversarial image perturbations, which are usually assumed to be additive. However, non-additive adversarial perturbations such as blur, occlusion, and distortion are also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Junjie Nan , Jianing Li , Wei Chen , Mingkun Zhang , Xueqi Cheng

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made releasing of synthetic images a viable approach to share data without releasing the original dataset. It has been shown that such synthetic data can be used for a variety of downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sumit Mukherjee , Yixi Xu , Anusua Trivedi , Juan Lavista Ferres

The growing use of portrait images in computer vision highlights the need to protect personal identities. At the same time, anonymized images must remain useful for downstream computer vision tasks. In this work, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Guoying Zhao

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling with their exceptional ability to produce high-fidelity images. However, misuse of such potent tools can lead to the creation of fake news or disturbing content targeting individuals,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yiren Song , Shengtao Lou , Xiaokang Liu , Hai Ci , Pei Yang , Jiaming Liu , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advances in GAN and diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and controllability of facial deepfake manipulation, raising serious concerns regarding privacy, security, and identity misuse. Proactive defenses attempt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yue Li , Linying Xue , Kaiqing Lin , Hanyu Quan , Dongdong Lin , Hui Tian , Hongxia Wang , Bin Wang

With the rapid progress in diffusion models, image synthesis has advanced to the stage of zero-shot image-to-image generation, where high-fidelity replication of facial identities or artistic styles can be achieved using just one portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jun Jia , Hongyi Miao , Yingjie Zhou , Wangqiu Zhou , Jianbo Zhang , Linhan Cao , Dandan Zhu , Hua Yang , Xiongkuo Min , Wei Sun , Guangtao Zhai

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

This work shows that it is possible to fool/attack recent state-of-the-art face detectors which are based on the single-stage networks. Successfully attacking face detectors could be a serious malware vulnerability when deploying a smart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Siqi Yang , Arnold Wiliem , Shaokang Chen , Brian C. Lovell

The rapid progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models has enabled the creation of synthetic faces that are increasingly difficult to distinguish from real images. This progress, however, has also amplified the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kyeonghun Kim , Youngung Han , Seoyoung Ju , Yeonju Jean , YooHyun Kim , Minseo Choi , SuYeon Lim , Kyungtae Park , Seungwoo Baek , Sieun Hyeon , Nam-Joon Kim , Hyuk-Jae Lee

Adversarial attacks involve adding perturbations to the source image to cause misclassification by the target model, which demonstrates the potential of attacking face recognition models. Existing adversarial face image generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Decheng Liu , Xijun Wang , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruiming Hu , Xinbo Gao

Nowadays advanced image editing tools and technical skills produce tampered images more realistically, which can easily evade image forensic systems and make authenticity verification of images more difficult. To tackle this challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jing Hao , Zhixin Zhang , Shicai Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

The rapid progress in synthetic image generation and manipulation has now come to a point where it raises significant concerns for the implications towards society. At best, this leads to a loss of trust in digital content, but could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Andreas Rössler , Davide Cozzolino , Luisa Verdoliva , Christian Riess , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner

Patch adversarial attacks on images, in which the attacker can distort pixels within a region of bounded size, are an important threat model since they provide a quantitative model for physical adversarial attacks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

Face morphing attacks circumvent face recognition systems (FRSs) by creating a morphed image that contains multiple identities. However, existing face morphing attack methods either sacrifice image quality or compromise the identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zuyuan He , Zongyong Deng , Qiaoyun He , Qijun Zhao

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often produce visible artifacts compromising user experience. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

Advancements in diffusion models have enabled effortless image editing via text prompts, raising concerns about image security. Attackers with access to user images can exploit these tools for malicious edits. Recent defenses attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Aniruddha Bala , Rohit Chowdhury , Rohan Jaiswal , Siddharth Roheda

Security and privacy have been considered a corner stone in all electronic transactions nowadays. People are becoming very cautious when conducting electronic transactions over internet. One of the major issues that frightens them is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Belal Amro , Ahmed Abu Sabha , Ammar Qunaibi , Ibraheem Najjar

From its acquisition in the camera sensors to its storage, different operations are performed to generate the final image. This pipeline imprints specific traces into the image to form a natural watermark. Tampering with an image disturbs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Matías Tailanian , Marina Gardella , Álvaro Pardo , Pablo Musé