Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 14 European Biometrics Research Award Peter Rot is a researcher and final-year PhD student at the University of Ljubljana, where he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science and the Laboratory for Machine Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He speaks to us fresh from winning the European Biometrics Research Award 2024 for his thesis on soft-biometric privacy-enhancing techniques for facial recognition systems. Privacy-preserving face analytics using deep learning methods Facial recognition technology is a popular and sometimes controversial topic due to its widespread use and the ethical and privacy concerns it raises. Modern facial recognition models create detailed biometric templates from input images, which are then used to compare faces and infer identity. However, in addition to capturing identity, they store other potentially sensitive facial attributes, like a person’s gender or ethnicity. In this paper, Peter takes on the challenge of addressing privacy issues by proposing innovative solutions to protect sensitive data. He explores the balance between preserving identity-related facial features and minimizing the exposure
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