Anonymization of facial images
AssigneeEmotient, Inc.
InventorsJacob Whitehill, Javier R. Movellan, Ian Fasel
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Abstract
A method facilitates the use of facial images through anonymization of facial images, thereby allowing people to submit their own facial images without divulging their identities. Original facial images are accessed and perturbed to generate synthesized facial images. Personal identities contained in the original facial images are no longer discernable from the synthesized facial images. At the same time, each synthesized facial image preserves at least some of the original attributes of the corresponding original facial image.
Claims17
A computer-implemented method for generating synthesized facial images, the method comprising:
- receiving an image;
- determining the image is the original facial image by detecting a face of a live human subject in the image;
- receiving a preselected attribute reflected in facial images;
- determining the original facial image has the preselected attribute;
- and
- perturbing the original facial image to generate a synthesized facial image, the synthesized facial image no longer recognizable as the live human subject but preserving at least part of the preselected attribute of the original facial image.
A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive an image;
- determine the image is the original facial image by detecting a face of a live human subject in the image;
- receive a preselected attribute reflected in facial images;
- determine the original facial image has the preselected attribute;
- and
- perturb the original facial image to generate a synthesized facial image, the synthesized facial image no longer recognizable as the live human subject but preserving at least part of the preselected attribute of the original facial image.
A system for generating synthesized facial images, the system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor and comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
- receive an image;
- determine the image is the original facial image by detecting a face of a live human subject in the image;
- receive a preselected attribute reflected in facial images;
- determine the original facial image has the preselected attribute;
- and
- perturb the original facial image to generate a synthesized facial image, the synthesized facial image no longer recognizable as the live human subject but preserving at least part of the preselected attribute of the original facial image.
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