**Negative Face Recognition**, or **NFR**, is a face recognition approach that enhances the soft-biometric privacy on the template-level by representing face templates in a complementary (negative) domain. While ordinary templates characterize facial properties of an individual, negative templates describe facial properties that does not exist for this individual. This suppresses privacy-sensitive information from stored templates. Experiments are conducted on two publicly available datasets captured under controlled and uncontrolled scenarios on three privacy-sensitive attributes.

**Iterative Latent Variable Refinement**, or **ILVR**, is a method to guide the generative process in denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) to generate high-quality images based on a given reference image. ILVR conditions the generation process in well-performing unconditional DDPM. Each transition in the generation process is refined utilizing a given reference image. By matching each latent variable, ILVR ensures the given condition in each transition thus enables sampling from a conditional distribution. Thus, ILVR generates high-quality images sharing desired semantics.

ILVR

ILVR: Conditioning Method for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Unsupervised Enhancement of Soft-biometric Privacy with Negative Face Recognition

**Feature Fusion Module v2** is a feature fusion module from the [M2Det](https://paperswithcode.com/method/m2det) object detection model, and is crucial for constructing the final multi-level feature pyramid. They use [1x1 convolution](https://paperswithcode.com/method/1x1-convolution) layers to compress the channels of the input features and use a concatenation operation to aggregate these feature map. FFMv2 takes the base feature and the largest output feature map of the previous [Thinned U-Shape Module](https://paperswithcode.com/method/tum) (TUM) – these two are of the same scale – as input, and produces the fused feature for the next TUM.

Source	Unsupervised Enhancement of Soft-biometric Privacy with Negative Face Recognition
Year	2000
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