Privacy preservation through makeup transfer for facial feature obfuscation

• Published in: The Journal of supercomputing Vol. 81; no. 13
• Main Authors: Hu, Renyuan, Chen, Zheyu, Jin, Biao, Yao, Zhiqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Nature B.V 21.08.2025
• Subjects: Face recognition; Perturbation methods; Privacy; Regularization

Automated facial recognition can infer sensitive attributes from facial images without consent, posing substantial privacy risks. Existing adversarial perturbation methods often degrade visual fidelity and compromise identity utility. We propose makeup-transfer obfuscation GAN (MTO-GAN), which uses...