Adversarial Face De-Identification
Recently, much research has been done on how to secure personal data, notably facial images. Face de-identification is one example of privacy protection that protects person identity by fooling intelligent face recognition systems, while typically allowing face recognition by human observers. While many face de-identification methods exist, the generated de-identified facial images do not resemble the original ones. This paper proposes the usage of adversarial examples for face de-identification that introduces minimal facial image distortion, while fooling automatic face recognition systems. Specifically, it introduces P-FGVM, a novel adversarial attack method, which operates on the image spatial domain and generates adversarial de-identified facial images that resemble the original ones. A comparison between P-FGVM and other adversarial attack methods shows that P-FGVM both protects privacy and preserves visual facial image quality more efficiently.