In plain words: A system that recognizes people from body shape, pose, and clothing was tested on social media photos, including ones with faces blurred or hidden. Just a handful of images per person was enough to identify them, even when faces were obscured.
Abstract
As we shift more of our lives into the virtual domain, the volume of data shared on the web keeps increasing and presents a threat to our privacy. This works contributes to the understanding of privacy implications of such data sharing by analysing how well people are recognisable in social media data. To facilitate a systematic study we define a number of scenarios considering factors such as how many heads of a person are tagged and if those heads are obfuscated or not. We propose a robust person recognition system that can handle large variations in pose and clothing, and can be trained with few training samples. Our results indicate that a handful of images is enough to threaten users' privacy, even in the presence of obfuscation. We show detailed experimental results, and discuss their implications.
Seong Joon Oh, Rodrigo Benenson, Mario Fritz, Bernt Schiele
arXiv:1607.08438 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CR · submitted Jul 28, 2016
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted to ECCV'16