Privacy-preserving Optics for Enhancing Protection in Face De-identification

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Main Authors: Lopez, Jhon, Hinojosa, Carlos, Arguello, Henry, Ghanem, Bernard
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Published: 2024
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author Lopez, Jhon
Hinojosa, Carlos
Arguello, Henry
Ghanem, Bernard
author_facet Lopez, Jhon
Hinojosa, Carlos
Arguello, Henry
Ghanem, Bernard
contents 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 assisting in daily tasks in homes, offices, hospitals, etc. The need to access or process personal information for these purposes raises privacy concerns. While software-level solutions like face de-identification provide a good privacy/utility trade-off, they present vulnerabilities to sniffing attacks. In this paper, we propose a hardware-level face de-identification method to solve this vulnerability. Specifically, our approach first learns an optical encoder along with a regression model to obtain a face heatmap while hiding the face identity from the source image. We also propose an anonymization framework that generates a new face using the privacy-preserving image, face heatmap, and a reference face image from a public dataset as input. We validate our approach with extensive simulations and hardware experiments.
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spellingShingle Privacy-preserving Optics for Enhancing Protection in Face De-identification
Lopez, Jhon
Hinojosa, Carlos
Arguello, Henry
Ghanem, Bernard
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
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 assisting in daily tasks in homes, offices, hospitals, etc. The need to access or process personal information for these purposes raises privacy concerns. While software-level solutions like face de-identification provide a good privacy/utility trade-off, they present vulnerabilities to sniffing attacks. In this paper, we propose a hardware-level face de-identification method to solve this vulnerability. Specifically, our approach first learns an optical encoder along with a regression model to obtain a face heatmap while hiding the face identity from the source image. We also propose an anonymization framework that generates a new face using the privacy-preserving image, face heatmap, and a reference face image from a public dataset as input. We validate our approach with extensive simulations and hardware experiments.
title Privacy-preserving Optics for Enhancing Protection in Face De-identification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00777