The paper introduces a new object detection approach that protects sensitive visual data in test images. It is the first to apply perceptual encryption to object detection, leveraging the embedding structure of Vision Transformers and a key-based domain adaptation to maintain accuracy comparable to unprotected models. Experiments on ViTdet confirm the method’s effectiveness in both accuracy and visual protection.
arXiv:2610.35729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imagery captured by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems increasingly raises privacy concerns, as UAV aerial surveillance routinely captures sensiti...
arXiv:2606. 09132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Language Models (VLMs) have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable ability.
The paper argues that evaluating privacy‑enhancing technologies (PETs) solely through image classification is insufficient because classification remains robust to many geometric and local perturbations. It proposes a compute‑aware multi‑task protocol that uses lightweight proxy tasks to assess PETs across various transformations, revealing that PETs with similar classification accuracy can perform very differently on other vision tasks. The study demonstrates the necessity of broader evaluation metrics beyond classification to truly gauge PET effectiveness.
The paper investigates whether large, instruction‑following Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) can reliably perform zero‑shot image privacy classification. It compares three open‑source VLMs to specialized privacy models on two public benchmarks, evaluating accuracy, robustness to image degradations (compression, lighting changes, noise), inference speed, and parameter count. The findings show that while VLMs remain robust to perturbations, they are less accurate and significantly slower than smaller, purpose‑built privacy models, indicating that scaling alone does not guarantee effective privacy classification.
arXiv:2607. 08867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-based deep learning enables large-scale medical image analysis but raises significant privacy concerns when sensitive patient images are outsourced for model development.
The unprecedented growth of computer vision applications, such as surveillance systems and social media, raises security and visual privacy concerns, especially when data is stored on cloud servers. Image obfuscation offers a way to preserve visual privacy while maintaining an adequate level of usability; thus, it has been a topic of great interest in recent years.
PrinGS introduces a privacy‑preserving framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting, enabling post‑training anonymization of sensitive content such as faces, license plates, documents, and computer screens. By localizing and directly anonymizing regions in the 3D representation, the method removes sensitive information from all rendered novel views while maintaining scene geometry and visual fidelity, achieving this in under one second. The approach also offers a privacy‑by‑design training strategy that prevents sensitive data from being encoded during optimization, yielding splats with low face similarity and unreadable text.
arXiv:2610.16622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the advancement in language modeling, research on adversarial images has recently shifted from image classifiers to vision-language models (VLMs...
arXiv:2503.12232v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aiming to match pedestrian images captured under varying lighting conditions, visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) has drawn intensi...
arXiv:2608.28691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable VLM pipelines promise continuous multimodal assistance from egocentric visual capture: a user asks a task-driven question about the surround...
arXiv:2607. 08402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale and diverse datasets are needed to train AI models to take real-time decisions for autonomous vehicles (AVs), an intelligent transportation system (ITS) application.
arXiv:2607. 14932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic face datasets have become effective enough to train face recognition models with accuracy rivaling that of models trained on real photographs.