De-identification of profile pictures while retaining facial features using generative adversarial networks

• Main Author: Lim, Yee Han
• Other Authors: Kong Wai-Kin Adams
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148060
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we propose a method to perform de-identification of profile pictures by using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate similar images of people. The goal is to maximally mask the identity of the individual, by making them unrecognisable to their friends and family, while ret...