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Main Authors: Cai, Xin, Zhang, Hailong, Wang, Chenchen, Liu, Wentao, Gu, Jinwei, Xue, Tianfan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04129
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author Cai, Xin
Zhang, Hailong
Wang, Chenchen
Liu, Wentao
Gu, Jinwei
Xue, Tianfan
author_facet Cai, Xin
Zhang, Hailong
Wang, Chenchen
Liu, Wentao
Gu, Jinwei
Xue, Tianfan
contents 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 solution offers inherent privacy advantages, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive applications like face verification. Typical lensless face verification adopts a two-stage process of reconstruction followed by verification, incurring privacy risks from reconstructed faces and high computational costs. This paper presents an end-to-end optimization approach for privacy-preserving face verification directly on encoded lensless captures, ensuring that the entire software pipeline remains encoded with no visible faces as intermediate results. To achieve this, we propose several techniques to address unique challenges from the lensless setup which precludes traditional face detection and alignment. Specifically, we propose a face center alignment scheme, an augmentation curriculum to build robustness against variations, and a knowledge distillation method to smooth optimization and enhance performance. Evaluations under both simulation and real environment demonstrate our method outperforms two-stage lensless verification while enhancing privacy and efficiency. Project website: \url{lenslessface.github.io}.
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spellingShingle LenslessFace: An End-to-End Optimized Lensless System for Privacy-Preserving Face Verification
Cai, Xin
Zhang, Hailong
Wang, Chenchen
Liu, Wentao
Gu, Jinwei
Xue, Tianfan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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 solution offers inherent privacy advantages, making it attractive for privacy-sensitive applications like face verification. Typical lensless face verification adopts a two-stage process of reconstruction followed by verification, incurring privacy risks from reconstructed faces and high computational costs. This paper presents an end-to-end optimization approach for privacy-preserving face verification directly on encoded lensless captures, ensuring that the entire software pipeline remains encoded with no visible faces as intermediate results. To achieve this, we propose several techniques to address unique challenges from the lensless setup which precludes traditional face detection and alignment. Specifically, we propose a face center alignment scheme, an augmentation curriculum to build robustness against variations, and a knowledge distillation method to smooth optimization and enhance performance. Evaluations under both simulation and real environment demonstrate our method outperforms two-stage lensless verification while enhancing privacy and efficiency. Project website: \url{lenslessface.github.io}.
title LenslessFace: An End-to-End Optimized Lensless System for Privacy-Preserving Face Verification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04129