Large-scale identity-labeled face datasets are essential for training modern face recognition models, yet collecting and annotating such data is costly and raises privacy and ethical concerns. Existin...
arXiv:2610.19717v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled high-fidelity, identity-preserving image generation for personalized applications such as digital avat...
By Lizhi Xiong, Jun Li, Ziqiang Li, Weiwei Jiang, Zhangjie Fu
arXiv:2605.22311v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Identity-conditioned diffusion models enable high-quality and identity-consistent face generation, but they also raise severe privacy concerns, as...
By Jose Edgar Hernandez Cancino Estrada, Mauro D\'iaz Lupone, \v{Z}iga Emer\v{s}i\v{c}, Vitomir \v{S}truc, Peter Peer, Darian Toma\v{s}evi\'c
arXiv:2606. 11615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of face recognition (FR) technologies raises serious privacy concerns, as facial data can be exploited without consent.
By Omid Ahmadieh, Nima Karimian
arXiv:2511.05575v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Diffusion-based approaches have recently achieved strong results in face swapping, offering improved visual quality over traditional GAN-based meth...
By Weston Bondurant, Arkaprava Sinha, Hieu Le, Srijan Das, Stephanie Schuckers
arXiv:2607. 28936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Facial biometric identification relies on the distinctiveness of user attributes within a high-dimensional embedding space.
By Omid Ahmadieh, Nima Karimian
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.
By Pawe{\l} Borsukiewicz, Daniele Lunghi, Wendk\^uuni C. Ou\'edraogo, Jacques Klein, Tegawend\'e F. Bissyand\'e
arXiv:2608.31053v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved strong results in high-fidelity image synthesis, but their iterative sampling process makes large-scale generation compu...
By Tiago Kienen Chaves, Bernardo Biesseck, David Menotti
Synthetic face datasets have become effective enough to train face recognition models with accuracy rivaling that of models trained on real photographs. This progress sidesteps the ethical and legal burdens of collecting real biometric data, yet evaluation has not kept pace.
The paper introduces a unified evaluation framework for face de-identification (FDeID), addressing inconsistencies in current protocols. It presents UtilFace, a demographically balanced benchmark assembled from four large-scale datasets, and HiFD, a hierarchical metric that simultaneously measures identity suppression, multi-level utility preservation, and image quality. Using this framework, the authors compare adversarial, GAN-based, and diffusion-based methods, revealing trade-offs and failure modes that were previously hidden, and they release the benchmark and toolkit for reproducible research.
By Hui Wei, Hao Yu, Hui Kuurila-Zhang, Guoying Zhao
arXiv:2609.27011v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Target-oriented face de-identification models aim to anonymize the identity of a target individual across different images or video frames, such that t...
By Felix Rosberg, Vitomir \v{S}truc, Cristofer Englund, Eren Erdal Aksoy, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez
Identity-preserving image generation becomes increasingly unreliable when a scene must contain many specified people. Beyond retaining each identity, the model must bind every reference to a distinct person and location, while training-time identity losses must establish correspondence among several noisy predicted faces.