Anonym-Recognizer

With the widespread application of big data technology, we are exposed to more and more video monitoring. To prevent serious social problems caused by face data leakage, face anonymization has become an important kind of method to protect face privacy. The face anonymization mentioned in this paper refers to the anonymization generation of the visual appearance in face images. Existing face anonymization methods mainly focus on removing identity information. However, in the scenario of face recognition technology that needs to protect privacy, existing face anonymization technology makes anonymized faces that can no longer be used for face recognition, limiting the application scope of face anonymization. Therefore, when using face anonymization, it is equally important to ensure that the anonymized face images can still be used for downstream tasks such as face recognition. To this end, we propose Anonym-Recognizer, a relationship-preserving face anonymization and recognition method. Our method uses relationship cyphertext which can be any binary identity number representing the identity of the image owner and designs a generative adversarial network to perform face anonymization and relationship cyphertexts embedding. In our framework, we first use Visual Anonymizer to manipulate the visual appearance of the input image, then use Cyphertext Embedder to get the anonymized image with the identity information embedded. With the help of Anonym Recognizer, the face recognition system can extract the relationship cyphertexts from the anonymized image as the credentials to match the identity information. The proposed Anonym-Recognizer provides a new perspective for the recognition and application of anonymized face images. Experiments on the Megaface dataset show that our method can encourage a 100% recognition accuracy on anonymized faces while finishing the task of face anonymization with high qualitative and quantitative quality.