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Main Authors: Zhang, Delong, Peng, Yi-Xing, Wu, Xiao-Ming, Wu, Ancong, Zheng, Wei-Shi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05543
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author Zhang, Delong
Peng, Yi-Xing
Wu, Xiao-Ming
Wu, Ancong
Zheng, Wei-Shi
author_facet Zhang, Delong
Peng, Yi-Xing
Wu, Xiao-Ming
Wu, Ancong
Zheng, Wei-Shi
contents Online person re-identification services face privacy breaches from potential data leakage and recovery attacks, exposing cloud-stored images to malicious attackers and triggering public concern. The privacy protection of pedestrian images is crucial. Previous privacy-preserving person re-identification methods are unable to resist recovery attacks and compromise accuracy. In this paper, we propose an iterative method (PixelFade) to optimize pedestrian images into noise-like images to resist recovery attacks. We first give an in-depth study of protected images from previous privacy methods, which reveal that the chaos of protected images can disrupt the learning of recovery models. Accordingly, Specifically, we propose Noise-guided Objective Function with the feature constraints of a specific authorization model, optimizing pedestrian images to normal-distributed noise images while preserving their original identity information as per the authorization model. To solve the above non-convex optimization problem, we propose a heuristic optimization algorithm that alternately performs the Constraint Operation and the Partial Replacement Operation. This strategy not only safeguards that original pixels are replaced with noises to protect privacy, but also guides the images towards an improved optimization direction to effectively preserve discriminative features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our PixelFade outperforms previous methods in resisting recovery attacks and Re-ID performance. The code is available at https://github.com/iSEE-Laboratory/PixelFade.
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spellingShingle PixelFade: Privacy-preserving Person Re-identification with Noise-guided Progressive Replacement
Zhang, Delong
Peng, Yi-Xing
Wu, Xiao-Ming
Wu, Ancong
Zheng, Wei-Shi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Online person re-identification services face privacy breaches from potential data leakage and recovery attacks, exposing cloud-stored images to malicious attackers and triggering public concern. The privacy protection of pedestrian images is crucial. Previous privacy-preserving person re-identification methods are unable to resist recovery attacks and compromise accuracy. In this paper, we propose an iterative method (PixelFade) to optimize pedestrian images into noise-like images to resist recovery attacks. We first give an in-depth study of protected images from previous privacy methods, which reveal that the chaos of protected images can disrupt the learning of recovery models. Accordingly, Specifically, we propose Noise-guided Objective Function with the feature constraints of a specific authorization model, optimizing pedestrian images to normal-distributed noise images while preserving their original identity information as per the authorization model. To solve the above non-convex optimization problem, we propose a heuristic optimization algorithm that alternately performs the Constraint Operation and the Partial Replacement Operation. This strategy not only safeguards that original pixels are replaced with noises to protect privacy, but also guides the images towards an improved optimization direction to effectively preserve discriminative features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our PixelFade outperforms previous methods in resisting recovery attacks and Re-ID performance. The code is available at https://github.com/iSEE-Laboratory/PixelFade.
title PixelFade: Privacy-preserving Person Re-identification with Noise-guided Progressive Replacement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05543