Summary of Adversarial Watermarking For Face Recognition, by Yuguang Yao et al.
Adversarial Watermarking for Face Recognition
by Yuguang Yao, Anil Jain, Sijia Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores the interaction between watermarking and adversarial attacks on face recognition models. Watermarking is used to embed an identifier in digital images, ensuring data integrity and security. However, an adversary can combine watermarking with input-level perturbations to launch an “adversarial watermarking attack” that degrades recognition performance by 67.2% or 95.9%. The study reveals a previously unrecognized vulnerability: adversarial perturbations can exploit the watermark message to evade face recognition systems. The proposed attack is evaluated on the CASIA-WebFace dataset, using an _norm-measured perturbation strength of {2}/{255} or {4}/{255}. This research highlights the importance of considering the impact of watermarking and adversarial attacks on face recognition models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you want to protect a digital photo by adding a secret code that proves it’s really yours. This is called “watermarking”. But what if someone finds a way to make the watermark useless? That’s exactly what this study found: if someone adds a special kind of noise (called an “adversarial perturbation”) to a face recognition system, it can break the watermark and make the system stop working. This means that people might not be able to identify faces accurately anymore. The researchers tested this attack on a big dataset called CASIA-WebFace and found that it reduced face matching accuracy by 67.2% or 95.9%. This shows how important it is to think about how watermarking and these kinds of attacks can affect face recognition systems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Face recognition
