Privacy Protection for Image Sharing Using Reversible Adversarial Examples

Online image sharing on social media platforms faces information leakage due to deep learning-aided privacy attacks. To avoid these attacks, this paper proposes a privacy protection mechanism for image sharing without changing the visual effect, which is based on reversible adversarial examples. Specifically, social media platform users can change the class activation feature to convert the original image into an adversarial image before sharing. When users want to restore the adversarial image to the original image, they can use an improved generative adversarial network model to restore it. The experimental results prove that the conversion model in this paper can effectively prevent privacy attacks from analyzing and stealing users' private information while having no visual impact. At the same time, the proposed restoration model can restore the adversarial examples with high accuracy.