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Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate artificial images that retain the properties of sensitive images while protecting the privacy of individual images within the dataset. Despite recent advancements, we find that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chen Gong , Kecen Li , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang

The increasing capabilities of deep neural networks for re-identification, combined with the rise in public surveillance in recent years, pose a substantial threat to individual privacy. Event cameras were initially considered as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Nicole Thiemer , Karen Joisten , Didier Stricker

Lensless cameras, innovatively replacing traditional lenses for ultra-thin, flat optics, encode light directly onto sensors, producing images that are not immediately recognizable. This compact, lightweight, and cost-effective imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xin Cai , Hailong Zhang , Chenchen Wang , Wentao Liu , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

Advanced facial recognition technologies and recommender systems with inadequate privacy technologies and policies for facial interactions increase concerns about bioprivacy violations. With the proliferation of video and live-streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yubo Huang , Wenhao Feng , Xin Lai , Zixi Wang , Jingzehua Xu , Shuai Zhang , Hongjie He , Fan Chen

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation tasks, paving the way for powerful AIGC applications. However, these widely-used generative models can also raise security and privacy concerns, such as copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhengyue Zhao , Jinhao Duan , Xing Hu , Kaidi Xu , Chenan Wang , Rui Zhang , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

Recent advances in 3D generative editing, particularly pipelines based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have achieved high-fidelity, multi-view-consistent scene manipulation from text prompts. However, we find that these pipelines also…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Nicole Meng , Zheyuan Liu , Meng Jiang , Yingjie Lao

The technological advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in text-to-image generation and are widely used in diverse applications. However, they have also raised significant societal concerns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yihua Zhang , Chongyu Fan , Yimeng Zhang , Yuguang Yao , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Xiaoming Liu , Sijia Liu

Privacy concerns around ever increasing number of cameras are increasing in today's digital age. Although existing anonymization methods are able to obscure identity information, they often struggle to preserve the utility of the images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han-Wei Kung , Tuomas Varanka , Terence Sim , Nicu Sebe

The fine-tuning technique for text-to-image diffusion models facilitates image customization but risks privacy breaches and opinion manipulation. Current research focuses on prompt- or image-level adversarial attacks for anti-customization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Long Tang , Dengpan Ye , Sirun Chen , Xiuwen Shi , Yunna Lv , Ziyi Liu

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for facial privacy protection that unifies multiple characteristics including anonymity, diversity, reversibility and security within a single lightweight framework. We name it PRO-Face S, short for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Lin Yuan , Kai Liang , Xiao Pu , Yan Zhang , Jiaxu Leng , Tao Wu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

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

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as an evolutionary for producing creative content in image synthesis. Based on the impressive generation abilities of these models, instruction-guided diffusion models can edit images with simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ruoxi Chen , Haibo Jin , Yixin Liu , Jinyin Chen , Haohan Wang , Lichao Sun

Anomaly detection from a single image is challenging since anomaly data is always rare and can be with highly unpredictable types. With only anomaly-free data available, most existing methods train an AutoEncoder to reconstruct the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yunfei Liu , Chaoqun Zhuang , Feng Lu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have the ability to build high-quality pictures from text prompts, but they pose safety concerns because they can generate offensive or disturbing imagery when provided with harmful inputs. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chi Zhang , Changjia Zhu , Xiaowen Li , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

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

Images serve as a crucial medium for communication, presenting information in a visually engaging format that facilitates rapid comprehension of key points. Meanwhile, during transmission and storage, they contain significant sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Wenying Wen , Ziye Yuan , Yushu Zhang , Tao Wang , Xiangli Xiao , Ruoyu Zhao , Yuming Fang

With millions of images that are shared online on social networking sites, effective methods for image privacy prediction are highly needed. In this paper, we propose an approach for fusing object, scene context, and image tags modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Ashwini Tonge , Cornelia Caragea

Face anonymization aims to conceal identity information while preserving non-identity attributes. Mainstream diffusion models rely on inference-time interventions such as negative guidance or energy-based optimization, which are applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoxin Yang , Yihong Lin , Jingdan Kang , Xuemiao Xu , Yue Li , Cheng Xu , Shengfeng He

Pose and body shape editing in a human image has received increasing attention. However, current methods often struggle with dataset biases and deteriorate realism and the person's identity when users make large edits. We propose a one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuta Okuyama , Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

Image-based AI models are increasingly deployed across a wide range of domains, including healthcare, security, and consumer applications. However, many image datasets carry sensitive or proprietary content, raising critical concerns about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhihao Zhu , Jiale Han , Yi Yang