PrivacyNet: Semi-Adversarial Networks for Multi-attribute Face Privacy
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In recent years, the utilization of biometric information has become more and more common for various forms of identity verification and user authentication. However, as a consequence of the widespread use and storage of biometric information, concerns regarding sensitive information leakage and the protection of users' privacy have been raised. Recent research efforts targeted these concerns by proposing the Semi-Adversarial Networks (SAN) framework for imparting gender privacy to face images. The objective of SAN is to perturb face image data such that it cannot be reliably used by a gender classifier but can still be used by a face matcher for matching purposes. In this work, we propose a novel Generative Adversarial Networks-based SAN model, PrivacyNet, that is capable of imparting selective soft biometric privacy to multiple soft-biometric attributes such as gender, age, and race. While PrivacyNet is capable of perturbing different sources of soft biometric information reliably and simultaneously, it also allows users to choose to obfuscate specific attributes, while preserving others. The results from extensive experiments on five independent face image databases demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed model in imparting selective multi-attribute privacy to face images.
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