{"id":6116,"date":"2025-04-24T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:13:38","slug":"assessing-the-limitations-ofimage-anonymization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/2025\/assessing-the-limitations-ofimage-anonymization\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the limitations of Image Anonymization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this thesis, we investigate the risk of a Singling Out on visual data.<br>This is closely tied to the potential risk of visual re-identification attacks.<br>We investigate this risk by providing a conceptual approach of detecting<br>bodies in visual data. After that anonymizing their faces using a Gaussian<br>Blur and finally collecting visual attributes, such as age, gender, and more.<br>Those are then analyzed for their risk of Singling Out. Furthermore, we<br>provide an analysis on how much the usage of anonymization techniques<br>impact the classification process of visual attributes. It was discovered<br>that a singling out was partly possible for some people in the dataset,<br>but not for all. In addition, for some visual attributes the anonymization-<br>process did not yield a significant deviation from the ground truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this thesis, we investigate the risk of a Singling Out on visual data.This is closely tied to the potential risk of visual re-identification attacks.We investigate this risk by providing a conceptual approach of detectingbodies in visual data. After that anonymizing their faces using a GaussianBlur and finally collecting visual attributes, such as age, gender, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}