Natural and Effective Obfuscation by Head Inpainting

• Published in: 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition pp. 5050 - 5059
• Main Authors: Sun, Qianru, Ma, Liqian, Joon Oh, Seong, Gool, Luc Van, Schiele, Bernt, Fritz, Mario
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Decoding; Face; Generators; Magnetic heads; Social network services; Task analysis

As more and more personal photos are shared online, being able to obfuscate identities in such photos is becoming a necessity for privacy protection. People have largely resorted to blacking out or blurring head regions, but they result in poor user experience while being surprisingly ineffective ag...