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Privacy of machine learning models is one of the remaining challenges that hinder the broad adoption of Artificial Intelligent (AI). This paper considers this problem in the context of image datasets containing faces. Anonymization of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Minh-Ha Le , Niklas Carlsson

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

In human-centric content generation, the pre-trained text-to-image models struggle to produce user-wanted portrait images, which retain the identity of individuals while exhibiting diverse expressions. This paper introduces our efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Renshuai Liu , Bowen Ma , Wei Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Changjie Fan , Tangjie Lv , Yu Ding , Xuan Cheng

Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

Recent advances in image generation have made diffusion models powerful tools for creating high-quality images. However, their iterative denoising process makes understanding and interpreting their semantic latent spaces more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion models emerged as a leading approach in text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, attempting to achieve detailed control to get a desired image solely through text remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Pablo Domingo-Gregorio , Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo

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

We present a novel approach to face aging that addresses the limitations of current methods which treat aging as a global, homogeneous process. Existing techniques using GANs and diffusion models often condition generation on a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Lais Isabelle Alves dos Santos , Julien Despois , Thibaut Chauffier , Sileye O. Ba , Giovanni Palma

While local methods for image denoising and inpainting may use similar concepts, their connections have hardly been investigated so far. The goal of this work is to establish links between the two by focusing on the most foundational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Daniel Gaa , Vassillen Chizhov , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert , Robin Dirk Adam

The task of privacy-preserving face recognition (PPFR) currently faces two major unsolved challenges: (1) existing methods are typically effective only on specific face recognition models and struggle to generalize to black-box face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuanwei Liu , Chengyu Jia , Ruqi Xiao , Xuemai Jia , Hui Wei , Kui Jiang , Zheng Wang

There is an increasing concern in computer vision devices invading users' privacy by recording unwanted videos. On the one hand, we want the camera systems to recognize important events and assist human daily lives by understanding its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee , Michael S. Ryoo

Image generating neural networks are mostly viewed as black boxes, where any change in the input can have a number of globally effective changes on the output. In this work, we propose a method for learning disentangled representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Maren Awiszus , Hanno Ackermann , Bodo Rosenhahn

Face video anonymization is aimed at privacy preservation while allowing for the analysis of videos in a number of computer vision downstream tasks such as expression recognition, people tracking, and action recognition. We propose here a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anil Egin , Andrea Tangherloni , Antitza Dantcheva

This technical report presents a diffusion model based framework for face swapping between two portrait images. The basic framework consists of three components, i.e., IP-Adapter, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion's inpainting pipeline, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Feifei Wang

Image anonymization is widely adapted in practice to comply with privacy regulations in many regions. However, anonymization often degrades the quality of the data, reducing its utility for computer vision development. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Håkon Hukkelås , Frank Lindseth

The rapid advancement of pretrained text-driven diffusion models has significantly enriched applications in image generation and editing. However, as the demand for personalized content editing increases, new challenges emerge especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Rui Jiang , Xinghe Fu , Guangcong Zheng , Teng Li , Taiping Yao , Xi Li

With billions of personal images being generated from social media and cameras of all sorts on a daily basis, security and privacy are unprecedentedly challenged. Although extensive attempts have been made, existing face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tao Li , Lei Lin

Face personalization aims to insert specific faces, taken from images, into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However, it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaede Shiohara , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Anonymization of medical images is necessary for protecting the identity of the test subjects, and is therefore an essential step in data sharing. However, recent developments in deep learning may raise the bar on the amount of distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 David Abramian , Anders Eklund