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As face recognition becomes more widespread in government and commercial services, its potential misuse raises serious concerns about privacy and civil rights. To counteract this threat, various anti-facial recognition techniques have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Youngjin Kwon , Xiao Zhang

Latent Video Diffusion Models can easily deceive casual observers and domain experts alike thanks to the produced image quality and temporal consistency. Beyond entertainment, this creates opportunities around safe data sharing of fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz

The accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in the past few years, thanks to the large amount of data collected and advancements in neural network architectures. However, these large-scale datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

As image processing systems proliferate, privacy concerns intensify given the sensitive personal information contained in images. This paper examines privacy challenges in image processing and surveys emerging privacy-preserving techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Maneesha , Bharat Gupta , Rishabh Sethi , Charvi Adita Das

Machine learning models require datasets for effective training, but directly sharing raw data poses significant privacy risk such as membership inference attacks (MIA). To mitigate the risk, privacy-preserving techniques such as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Yin , Guangquan Zhang , Hua Zuo , Jie Lu

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

With the development of diffusion-based customization methods like DreamBooth, individuals now have access to train the models that can generate their personalized images. Despite the convenience, malicious users have misused these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yisu Liu , Jinyang An , Wanqian Zhang , Dayan Wu , Jingzi Gu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

The growing accessibility of diffusion models has revolutionized image editing but also raised significant concerns about unauthorized modifications, such as misinformation and plagiarism. Existing countermeasures largely rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yaopei Zeng , Yuanpu Cao , Lu Lin

Rather than anonymizing social graphs by generalizing them to super nodes/edges or adding/removing nodes and edges to satisfy given privacy parameters, recent methods exploit the semantics of uncertain graphs to achieve privacy protection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Hiep H. Nguyen , Abdessamad Imine , Michaël Rusinowitch

We present UP2You, the first tuning-free solution for reconstructing high-fidelity 3D clothed portraits from extremely unconstrained in-the-wild 2D photos. Unlike previous approaches that require "clean" inputs (e.g., full-body images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zeyu Cai , Ziyang Li , Xiaoben Li , Boqian Li , Zeyu Wang , Zhenyu Zhang , Yuliang Xiu

Text-to-image synthesis has become highly popular for generating realistic and stylized images, often requiring fine-tuning generative models with domain-specific datasets for specialized tasks. However, these valuable datasets face risks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Songrui Wang , Yubo Zhu , Wei Tong , Sheng Zhong

Traditional feature-based image stitching technologies rely heavily on feature detection quality, often failing to stitch images with few features or low resolution. The learning-based image stitching solutions are rarely studied due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lang Nie , Chunyu Lin , Kang Liao , Shuaicheng Liu , Yao Zhao

The rise of customized diffusion models has spurred a boom in personalized visual content creation, but also poses risks of malicious misuse, severely threatening personal privacy and copyright protection. Some studies show that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Songping Wang , Yueming Lyu , Shiqi Liu , Ning Li , Tong Tong , Hao Sun , Caifeng Shan

Text-to-image diffusion models are pushing the boundaries of what generative AI can achieve in our lives. Beyond their ability to generate general images, new personalization techniques have been proposed to customize the pre-trained base…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Boheng Li , Yanhao Wei , Yankai Fu , Zhenting Wang , Yiming Li , Jie Zhang , Run Wang , Tianwei Zhang

Preserving privacy is a growing concern in our society where sensors and cameras are ubiquitous. In this work, for the first time, we propose a trainable image acquisition method that removes the sensitive identity revealing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yamin Sepehri , Pedram Pad , Pascal Frossard , L. Andrea Dunbar

For low-level computer vision and image processing ML tasks, training on large datasets is critical for generalization. However, the standard practice of relying on real-world images primarily from the Internet comes with image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Gyeongmin Choe , Beibei Du , Seonghyeon Nam , Xiaoyu Xiang , Bo Zhu , Rakesh Ranjan

This work addresses the problem of anonymizing the identity of faces in a dataset of images, such that the privacy of those depicted is not violated, while at the same time the dataset is useful for downstream task such as for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Simone Barattin , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Nicu Sebe

The widespread use of AI-generated content from diffusion models has raised significant concerns regarding misinformation and copyright infringement. Watermarking is a crucial technique for identifying these AI-generated images and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wenda Li , Huijie Zhang , Qing Qu

Real noisy-clean pairs on a large scale are costly and difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, supervised denoisers trained on synthetic data perform poorly in practice. Self-supervised denoisers, which learn only from single noisy images, solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zejin Wang , Jiazheng Liu , Guoqing Li , Hua Han

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of content synthesis and editing. Recent models have replaced the traditional UNet architecture with the Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and employed flow-matching for improved training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Omri Avrahami , Or Patashnik , Ohad Fried , Egor Nemchinov , Kfir Aberman , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or