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This paper tackles the challenge of detecting partially manipulated facial deepfakes, which involve subtle alterations to specific facial features while retaining the overall context, posing a greater detection difficulty than fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Andrii Yermakov , Jan Cech , Jiri Matas

Privacy-preserving computer vision is an important emerging problem in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prevalent methods tackling this problem use differential privacy (DP) or obfuscation techniques to protect the privacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 David Schneider , Sina Sajadmanesh , Vikash Sehwag , Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Lingjuan Lyu , Vivek Sharma

This paper presents a novel approach to deter unauthorized deepfakes and enable user tracking in generative models, even when the user has full access to the model parameters, by integrating key-based model authentication with watermarking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Mayank Kumar Singh , Naoya Takahashi , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

The widespread use of image acquisition technologies, along with advances in facial recognition, has raised serious privacy concerns. Face de-identification usually refers to the process of concealing or replacing personal identifiers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingyi Cao , Xiangyi Chen , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Rong Xie , Li Song , Zhu Li , Wenjun Zhang

Voice data generated on instant messaging or social media applications contains unique user voiceprints that may be abused by malicious adversaries for identity inference or identity theft. Existing voice anonymization techniques, e.g.,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiangyi Deng , Fei Teng , Yanjiao Chen , Xiaofu Chen , Zhaohui Wang , Wenyuan Xu

High quality facial image editing is a challenging problem in the movie post-production industry, requiring a high degree of control and identity preservation. Previous works that attempt to tackle this problem may suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

The ubiquitous use of face recognition has sparked increasing privacy concerns, as unauthorized access to sensitive face images could compromise the information of individuals. This paper presents an in-depth study of the privacy protection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yuxi Mi , Yuge Huang , Jiazhen Ji , Minyi Zhao , Jiaxiang Wu , Xingkun Xu , Shouhong Ding , Shuigeng Zhou

MeshFace photos have been widely used in many Chinese business organizations to protect ID face photos from being misused. The occlusions incurred by random meshes severely degenerate the performance of face verification systems, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shu Zhang , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

In order to protect vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians or cyclists, it is essential that intelligent transportation systems (ITS) accurately identify them. Therefore, datasets used to train perception models of ITS must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Marvin Klemp , Kevin Rösch , Royden Wagner , Jannik Quehl , Martin Lauer

Deep learning-based methods have pushed the limits of the state-of-the-art in face analysis. However, despite their success, these models have raised concerns regarding their bias towards certain demographics. This bias is inflicted both by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Markos Georgopoulos , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

Recently, video conferencing apps have become functional by accomplishing such computer vision-based features as real-time background removal and face beautification. Limited variability in existing portrait segmentation and face parsing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Karina Kvanchiani , Elizaveta Petrova , Karen Efremyan , Alexander Sautin , Alexander Kapitanov

Facial video inpainting plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including but not limited to the removal of obstructions in video conferencing and telemedicine, enhancement of facial expression analysis, privacy protection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara , Karen Egiazarian , Sebastian Knorr

Due to the pervasiveness of image capturing devices in every-day life, images of individuals are routinely captured. Although this has enabled many benefits, it also infringes on personal privacy. A promising direction in research on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-23 William Croft , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack , Wei Shi

The modern surge in camera usage alongside widespread computer vision technology applications poses significant privacy and security concerns. Current artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aid in recognizing relevant events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jhon Lopez , Carlos Hinojosa , Henry Arguello , Bernard Ghanem

Classical techniques for protecting facial image privacy typically fall into two categories: data-poisoning methods, exemplified by Fawkes, which introduce subtle perturbations to images, or anonymization methods that generate images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Marlene Careil , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

This work presents FlashFace, a practical tool with which users can easily personalize their own photos on the fly by providing one or a few reference face images and a text prompt. Our approach is distinguishable from existing human photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shilong Zhang , Lianghua Huang , Xi Chen , Yifei Zhang , Zhi-Fan Wu , Yutong Feng , Wei Wang , Yujun Shen , Yu Liu , Ping Luo

Recognizing and localizing student confusion from video is an important yet challenging problem in educational AI. Existing confusion datasets suffer from noisy labels, coarse temporal annotations, and limited expert validation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Lu Dong , Xiao Wang , Mark Frank , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju , Ifeoma Nwogu

Recent advances in generative image editing have enabled transformative applications, from professional head shot generation to avatar stylization. However, these systems often require uploading high-fidelity facial images to third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dipesh Tamboli , Vineet Punyamoorty , Atharv Pawar , Vaneet Aggarwal

Latent diffusion models can be used as a powerful augmentation method to artificially extend datasets for enhanced training. To the human eye, these augmented images look very different to the originals. Previous work has suggested to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Valentin Haug , Rainer Lienhart

Detecting deepfakes involving face-swaps presents a significant challenge, particularly in real-world scenarios where anyone can perform face-swapping with freely available tools and apps without any technical knowledge. Existing deepfake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sudev Kumar Padhi , Harshit Kumar , Umesh Kashyap , Sk. Subidh Ali