Image Anonymization Using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network

Summary

Advancement in deep learning requires significantly huge amount of data for training purpose, where protection of individual data plays a key role in data privacy and publication. Recent developments in deep learning demonstrate a huge challenge for traditionally used approch for image anonymization, such as model inversion attack, where adversary repeatedly query the model, in order to reconstruct the original image from the anonymized image. In order to apply more protection on image anonymization, an approach is presented here to convert the input (raw) image into a new synthetic image by applying optimized noise to the latent space representation (LSR) of the original image. The synthetic image is anonymized by adding well‐designed noise calculated over the gradient during the learning process, where the resultant image is both realistic and immune to model inversion attack. More presicely, we extend the approach proposed by T. Kim and J. Yang (2019) by using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) in order to make the approach more efficient. Our aim is to improve the efficiency of the model by changing the loss function to achieve optimal privacy in less time and computation. Finally, the proposed approach is demonstrated using a benchmark dataset. The experimental study presents that the proposed method can efficiently convert the input image into another synthetic image which is of high quality as well as immune to model inversion attack.