基于CycleGAN的图像隐私保护

社交媒体和云平台为图像的传播和存储带来了便利，但同时也引起了人们对于图像隐私的担忧。因此，需要采取一定的措施去保护图像的隐私，以防止隐私被窃取和非法使用。基于上述目标，本文提出了基于循环对抗网络（cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks, CycleGAN）的图像隐私保护。为了在图像隐私保护中兼顾可用性，该方法先用图像分割和CycleGAN组合，选择出不同的分割系数来辅助生成不同程度的隐私保护图像。然后利用可逆信息隐藏对生成的隐私保护图像进行信息的嵌入，从而阻止非法使用者在图像重构中提取隐私信息，进而保证了整个过程图像隐私保护和可用性的平衡。本文用PIPA数据集对该方法进行训练和测试，采用峰值信噪比和结构相似性指数作为客观指标对隐私保护的图像进行评估。实验结果表明，本方案在图像隐私保护和可用性两方面都优于其他对比方案。

Image Privacy Protection Based on Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks

Social media and cloud computing have facilitated the distribution and storage of images. Meanwhile, concerns about image privacy have been raised. It is crucial to protect image privacy from privacy violation and illegal use. Motivated by this, an image privacy protection method based on cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) is proposed in this paper. Considering the usability in image privacy protection, the method first combines image segmentation with CycleGAN to select different segmentation coefficients to generate images with different degrees of privacy protection. Then reversible information hiding is used to embed information in the generated privacy preserving image, so as to prevent illegal users from reversing the image. Thus, a balance is achieved between image privacy protection and usability. The proposed method is trained and tested using PIPA dataset, using peak signal to noise ratio and structural similarity index are used as performance metrics to evaluate the privacy-preserving images. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other schemes in both image privacy preservation and usability.