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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…

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As large language models (LLMs) become ubiquitous in our daily tasks and digital interactions, associated privacy risks are increasingly in focus. While LLM privacy research has primarily focused on the leakage of model training data, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Batuhan Tömekçe , Mark Vero , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

The rapid advancement of Visual Language Models (VLMs) has enabled sophisticated analysis of visual content, leading to concerns about the inference of sensitive user attributes and subsequent privacy risks. While technical capabilities of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuning Zhang , Gengrui Zhang , Yibo Meng , Ziyi Zhang , Hantao Zhao , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Our research reveals a new privacy risk associated with the vision-language model (VLM) agentic framework: the ability to infer sensitive attributes (e.g., age and health information) and even abstract ones (e.g., personality and social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Feiran Liu , Yuzhe Zhang , Xinyi Huang , Yinan Peng , Xinfeng Li , Lixu Wang , Yutong Shen , Ranjie Duan , Simeng Qin , Xiaojun Jia , Qingsong Wen , Wei Dong

Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) pose significant individual-level privacy risks by linking fragmented multimodal data to identifiable individuals through hierarchical chain-of-thought reasoning. However, existing privacy benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Xiongtao Sun , Hui Li , Jiaming Zhang , Yujie Yang , Kaili Liu , Ruxin Feng , Wen Jun Tan , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

The proliferation of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) introduces profound privacy risks from personal videos. This paper addresses the critical yet unexplored inferential privacy threat, the risk of inferring sensitive personal attributes over…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Shuning Zhang , Zhaoxin Li , Changxi Wen , Ying Ma , Simin Li , Gengrui Zhang , Ziyi Zhang , Yibo Meng , Hantao Zhao , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

The increasing use of Online Vision Language Models (OVLMs) for processing images has introduced significant privacy risks, as individuals frequently upload images for various utilities, unaware of the potential for privacy violations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Karmesh Siddharam Chaudhari , Youxiang Zhu , Amy Feng , Xiaohui Liang , Honggang Zhang

As visual assistant systems powered by visual language models (VLMs) become more prevalent, concerns over user privacy have grown, particularly for blind and low vision users who may unknowingly capture personal private information in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jeffri Murrugarra-LLerena , Haoran Niu , K. Suzanne Barber , Hal Daumé , Yang Trista Cao , Paola Cascante-Bonilla

Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) now pose a serious yet overlooked privacy threat, as they can infer a social media user's geolocation directly from shared images, leading to unintended privacy leakage. While adversarial image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiayi Zhu , Yihao Huang , Yue Cao , Xiaojun Jia , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Geguang Pu , Bin Wang

While specialized learning-based models have historically dominated image privacy prediction, the current literature increasingly favours adopting large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) designed for generic tasks. This trend risks overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Alina Elena Baia , Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly integrated into privacy-critical domains, yet existing evaluations of personally identifiable information (PII) leakage largely treat privacy as a static extraction task and ignore how a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 G M Shahariar , Zabir Al Nazi , Md Olid Hasan Bhuiyan , Zhouxing Shi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) combine visual and textual understanding, rendering them well-suited for diverse tasks like generating image captions and answering visual questions across various domains. However, these capabilities are built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Simone Caldarella , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci , Rahaf Aljundi

Recent advances in visual-language alignment have endowed vision-language models (VLMs) with fine-grained image understanding capabilities. However, this progress also introduces new privacy risks. This paper first proposes a novel privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hongyi Miao , Jun Jia , Xincheng Wang , Qianli Ma , Wei Sun , Wangqiu Zhou , Dandan Zhu , Yewen Cao , Zhi Liu , Guangtao Zhai

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of highly realistic image forgeries, raising significant concerns about digital media authenticity. While existing detection methods demonstrate promising…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit impressive potential across various tasks but also face significant privacy risks, limiting their practical applications. Current researches on privacy assessment for LVLMs is limited in scope,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jie Zhang , Xiangkui Cao , Zhouyu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and the widespread usage of MLLM cloud services such as GPT-4V raised great concerns about privacy leakage in visual data. As these models are typically deployed in cloud services,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaofei Hui , Qian Wu , Haoxuan Qu , Majid Mirmehdi , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

In the age of agentic AI, the growing deployment of multi-modal models (MMs) has introduced new attack vectors that can leak sensitive training data in MMs, causing privacy leakage. This paper investigates a black-box privacy attack, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 David Amebley , Sayanton Dibbo

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as GPT-4o now demonstrate a remarkable ability to infer users' locations from public shared images, posing a substantial risk to geoprivacy. Although adversarial perturbations offer a potential defense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xinwei Liu , Xiaojun Jia , Yuan Xun , Simeng Qin , Xiaochun Cao

Vision is the most important sense for people, and it is also one of the main ways of cognition. As a result, people tend to utilize visual content to capture and share their life experiences, which greatly facilitates the transfer of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Ruoyu Zhao , Yushu Zhang , Tao Wang , Wenying Wen , Yong Xiang , Xiaochun Cao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have gained considerable prominence in recent years due to their remarkable capability to effectively integrate and process both textual and visual information. This integration has significantly enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Aobotao Dai , Xinyu Ma , Lei Chen , Songze Li , Lin Wang
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