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This paper proposes learning disentangled but complementary face features with minimal supervision by face identification. Specifically, we construct an identity Distilling and Dispelling Autoencoder (D2AE) framework that adversarially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yu Liu , Fangyin Wei , Jing Shao , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang

Recent generative-prior-based methods have shown promising blind face restoration performance. They usually project the degraded images to the latent space and then decode high-quality faces either by single-stage latent optimization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Maitreya Suin , Rama Chellappa

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

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

The rapid progress of Deepfake technology has made face swapping highly realistic, raising concerns about the malicious use of fabricated facial content. Existing methods often struggle to generalize to unseen domains due to the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ke Sun , Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Hong Liu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Palmprint recognition techniques have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling reliable recognition even when palmprints are captured in uncontrolled or challenging environments. However, this strength also introduces new risks, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Licheng Yan , Bob Zhang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Lu Leng , Shuyi Li , Yuqi Wang , Ziyuan Yang

Diffusion models have recently shown strong progress in generative tasks, offering a more stable alternative to GAN-based approaches for makeup transfer. Existing methods often suffer from limited datasets, poor disentanglement between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qihe Pan , Yiming Wu , Xing Zhao , Liang Xie , Guodao Sun , Ronghua Liang

Recent advances in generative modeling have enabled the generation of high-quality synthetic data that is applicable in a variety of domains, including face recognition. Here, state-of-the-art generative models typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Darian Tomašević , Fadi Boutros , Chenhao Lin , Naser Damer , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in rapid and high-fidelity personalization, even when provided with only a few user images. However, the effectiveness of personalization techniques has lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Naresh Kumar Devulapally , Shruti Agarwal , Tejas Gokhale , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

The performance of automated face recognition systems is inevitably impacted by the facial aging process. However, high quality datasets of individuals collected over several years are typically small in scale. In this work, we propose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sudipta Banerjee , Govind Mittal , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

Despite promising progress in face swapping task, realistic swapped images remain elusive, often marred by artifacts, particularly in scenarios involving high pose variation, color differences, and occlusion. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Sanoojan Baliah , Qinliang Lin , Shengcai Liao , Xiaodan Liang , Muhammad Haris Khan

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 the context of flexible manufacturing systems that are required to produce different types and quantities of products with minimal reconfiguration, this paper addresses the problem of unsupervised multi-class anomaly detection: develop a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Haonan Yin , Guanlong Jiao , Qianhui Wu , Borje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin Yew Lin

Training of deep learning models for computer vision requires large image or video datasets from real world. Often, in collecting such datasets, we need to protect the privacy of the people captured in the images or videos, while still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Yuezun Li , Siwei Lyu

Growing privacy concerns and regulations like GDPR and CCPA necessitate pseudonymization techniques that protect identity in image datasets. However, retaining utility is also essential. Traditional methods like masking and blurring degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Kartik Patwari , David Schneider , Xiaoxiao Sun , Chen-Nee Chuah , Lingjuan Lyu , Vivek Sharma

The widespread sharing of face images on social media platforms and in large-scale datasets raises pressing privacy concerns, as biometric identifiers can be exploited without consent. Face anonymization seeks to generate realistic facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Raimondo Schettini

The success of face recognition (FR) systems has led to serious privacy concerns due to potential unauthorized surveillance and user tracking on social networks. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to generate natural face images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Liqin Wang , Qianyue Hu , Wei Lu , Xiangyang Luo

Existing person re-identification (Re-ID) methods principally deploy the ImageNet-1K dataset for model initialization, which inevitably results in sub-optimal situations due to the large domain gap. One of the key challenges is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ke Niu , Haiyang Yu , Xuelin Qian , Teng Fu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Despite the success of diffusion-based customization methods on visual content creation, increasing concerns have been raised about such techniques from both privacy and political perspectives. To tackle this issue, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Feifei Wang , Zhentao Tan , Tianyi Wei , Yue Wu , Qidong Huang

Face swapping aims to transfer the identity of a source face onto a target face while preserving target-specific attributes such as pose, expression, lighting, skin tone, and makeup. However, since real ground truth for face swapping is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiwon Kang , Yeji Choi , JoungBin Lee , Wooseok Jang , Jinhyeok Choi , Taekeun Kang , Yongjae Park , Myungin Kim , Seungryong Kim