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Automated machine vision pipelines do not need the exact visual content to perform their tasks. Therefore, there is a potential to remove private information from the data without significantly affecting the machine vision accuracy. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Bardia Azizian , Ivan V. Bajić

Despite the rapid progress of deep learning in video action recognition (VAR) in recent years, privacy leakage in videos remains a critical concern. Current state-of-the-art privacy-preserving methods often rely on anonymization. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Lixin Chen , Chaomeng Chen , Jiale Zhou , Zhijian Wu , Xun Lin

The demand for privacy in facial image dissemination is gaining ground internationally, echoed by the proliferation of regulations such as GDPR, DPDPA, CCPA, PIPL, and APPI. While recent advances in anonymization surpass pixelation or blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Majed El Helou , Doruk Cetin , Petar Stamenkovic , Niko Benjamin Huber , Fabio Zünd

While the rapid proliferation of wearable cameras has raised significant concerns about egocentric video privacy, prior work has largely overlooked the unique privacy threats posed to the camera wearer. This work investigates the core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yijiang Li , Genpei Zhang , Jiacheng Cheng , Yi Li , Xiaojun Shan , Dashan Gao , Jiancheng Lyu , Yuan Li , Ning Bi , Nuno Vasconcelos

With the increasing deployment of intelligent sensing technologies in highly sensitive environments such as restrooms and locker rooms, visual surveillance systems face a profound privacy-security paradox. Existing privacy-preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Huan Song , Shuyu Tian , Ting Long , Jiang Liu , Cheng Yuan , Zhenyu Jia , Jiawei Shao , Xuelong Li

Requiring less data for accurate models, few-shot learning has shown robustness and generality in many application domains. However, deploying few-shot models in untrusted environments may inflict privacy concerns, e.g., attacks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Archit Parnami , Muhammad Usama , Liyue Fan , Minwoo Lee

Statistical methods protecting sensitive information or the identity of the data owner have become critical to ensure privacy of individuals as well as of organizations. This paper investigates anonymization methods based on representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Clément Feutry , Pablo Piantanida , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre Duhamel

In this work, we investigate facial anonymization techniques in 360{\deg} videos and assess their influence on the perceived realism, anonymization effect, and presence of participants. In comparison to traditional footage, 360{\deg} videos…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Leslie Wöhler , Satoshi Ikehata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

The recent rapid advancements in both sensing and machine learning technologies have given rise to the universal collection and utilization of people's biometrics, such as fingerprints, voices, retina/facial scans, or gait/motion/gestures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chun-Fu Chen , Bill Moriarty , Shaohan Hu , Sean Moran , Marco Pistoia , Vincenzo Piuri , Pierangela Samarati

Face forgery videos have caused severe public concerns, and many detectors have been proposed. However, most of these detectors suffer from limited generalization when detecting videos from unknown distributions, such as from unseen forgery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Daichi Zhang , Zihao Xiao , Jianmin Li , Shiming Ge

Facial recognition models are increasingly employed by commercial enterprises, government agencies, and cloud service providers for identity verification, consumer services, and surveillance. These models are often trained using vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Chen Chen , Mengyuan Sun , Xueluan Gong , Yanjiao Chen , Qian Wang

The unprecedented capture and application of face images raise increasing concerns on anonymization to fight against privacy disclosure. Most existing methods may suffer from the problem of excessive change of the identity-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zhenzhong Kuang , Xiaochen Yang , Yingjie Shen , Chao Hu , Jun Yu

Protecting speaker identity is crucial for online voice applications, yet streaming speaker anonymization (SA) remains underexplored. Recent research has demonstrated that neural audio codec (NAC) provides superior speaker feature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikita Kuzmin , Songting Liu , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in developing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) capable of processing both textual and visual inputs. These models have demonstrated impressive performance, leading to their widespread adoption in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Hanene F. Z. Brachemi Meftah , Wassim Hamidouche , Sid Ahmed Fezza , Olivier Déforges

Recent work on image anonymization has shown that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate near-photorealistic faces to anonymize individuals. However, scaling up these networks to the entire human body has remained a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Håkon Hukkelås , Morten Smebye , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

Qualitative research often contains personal, contextual, and organizational details that pose privacy risks if not handled appropriately. Manual anonymization is time-consuming, inconsistent, and frequently omits critical identifiers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Aisvarya Adeseye , Jouni Isoaho , Seppo Virtanen , Mohammad Tahir

This study proposes a privacy-preserving Visual SLAM framework for estimating camera poses and performing bundle adjustment with mixed line and point clouds in real time. Previous studies have proposed localization methods to estimate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mikiya Shibuya , Shinya Sumikura , Ken Sakurada

In an era where personal photos are easily leaked and collected, face de-identification is a crucial method for protecting identity privacy. However, current face de-identification techniques face challenges in preserving attribute details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingrui Zhu , Dongxin Chen , Xin Wei , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Privacy protection from surreptitious video recordings is an important societal challenge. We desire a computer vision system (e.g., a robot) that can recognize human activities and assist our daily life, yet ensure that it is not recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Michael S. Ryoo , Brandon Rothrock , Charles Fleming , Hyun Jong Yang

With rapid advancements in image generation technology, face swapping for privacy protection has emerged as an active area of research. The ultimate benefit is improved access to video datasets, e.g. in healthcare settings. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ethan Wilson , Frederick Shic , Jenny Skytta , Eakta Jain