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Blind face restoration endeavors to restore a clear face image from a degraded counterpart. Recent approaches employing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as priors have demonstrated remarkable success in this field. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Xiaobin Lu , Xiaobin Hu , Jun Luo , Ben Zhu , Yaping Ruan , Wenqi Ren

In this paper, we introduce PrivDFS, a distributed feature-sharing framework for input-private inference in image classification. A single holistic intermediate representation in split inference gives diffusion-based Data Reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zihan Liu , Jiayi Wen , Junru Wu , Xuyang Zou , Shouhong Tan , Zhirun Zheng , Cheng Huang

The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiahui Wu , Fucai Luo , Tiecheng Sun , Haiyan Wang , Weizhe Zhang

Masked face recognition (MFR) has emerged as a critical domain in biometric identification, especially by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which introduced widespread face masks. This survey paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mohamed Mahmoud , Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem , Hyun-Soo Kang

We present Advancing Front Mapping (AFM), a provably robust algorithm for the computation of surface mappings to simple base domains. Given an input mesh and a convex or star-shaped target domain, AFM installs a (possibly refined) version…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Marco Livesu

Face Recognition (FR) systems have been shown to be vulnerable to morphing attacks. We examine exactly how challenging morphs can become. By showing a worst-case construction in the embedding space of an FR system and using a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Una M. Kelly , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often produce visible artifacts compromising user experience. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar

3D face reconstruction is an important task in the field of computer vision. Although 3D face reconstruction has being developing rapidly in recent years, it is still a challenge for face reconstruction under large pose. That is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Lei Jiang , XiaoJun Wu , Josef Kittler

With increasing appealing to privacy issues in face recognition, federated learning has emerged as one of the most prevalent approaches to study the unconstrained face recognition problem with private decentralized data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yifan Niu , Weihong Deng

Face inpainting techniques recover missing or occluded facial regions in a visually realistic manner, but preserving the identity in the final output remains a fundamental challenge. Identity consistency is crucial for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 João Santos , Carlos Santiago , Manuel Marques

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and face forgery detection play vital roles in securing face biometric systems from presentation attacks (PAs) and vicious digital manipulation (e.g., deepfakes). Despite promising performance upon large-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zitong Yu , Rizhao Cai , Zhi Li , Wenhan Yang , Jingang Shi , Alex C. Kot

Face recognition (FR) technology plays a crucial role in various applications, but its vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses significant security concerns. Existing research primarily focuses on transferability to different FR models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xiaoliang Liu , Furao Shen , Feng Han , Jian Zhao , Changhai Nie

Images of morphed faces pose a serious threat to face recognition--based security systems, as they can be used to illegally verify the identity of multiple people with a single morphed image. Modern detection algorithms learn to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Marija Ivanovska , Andrej Kronovšek , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc , Borut Batagelj

The proliferation of diffusion-based deepfake technologies poses significant risks for unauthorized and unethical facial image manipulation. While traditional countermeasures have primarily focused on passive detection methods, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hon Ming Yam , Zhongliang Guo , Chun Pong Lau

Face recognition (FR) can be abused for privacy intrusion. Governments, private companies, or even individual attackers can collect facial images by web scraping to build an FR system identifying human faces without their consent. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ka-Ho Chow , Sihao Hu , Tiansheng Huang , Ling Liu

Face frontalization refers to the process of synthesizing the frontal view of a face from a given profile. Due to self-occlusion and appearance distortion in the wild, it is extremely challenging to recover faithful results and preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jie Cao , Yibo Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

The widespread emergence of face-swap Deepfake videos poses growing risks to digital security, privacy, and media integrity, necessitating effective forensic tools for identifying the source of such manipulations. Although most prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Wasim Ahmad , Yan-Tsung Peng , Yuan-Hao Chang

Face morphing attacks present a significant threat to face recognition systems used in electronic identity enrolment and border control, particularly in single-image morphing attack detection (S-MAD) scenarios where no trusted reference is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Diogo J. Paulo , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

With the recent advancement of deep convolutional neural networks, significant progress has been made in general face recognition. However, the state-of-the-art general face recognition models do not generalize well to occluded face images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Haibo Qiu , Dihong Gong , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Dacheng Tao

The widespread deployment of surveillance cameras for facial recognition gives rise to many privacy concerns. This study proposes a privacy-friendly alternative to large scale facial recognition. While there are multiple techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mattijs Baert , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens