# RID-TWIN: An end-to-end pipeline for automatic face de-identification in videos

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10058 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10058/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 18 of its 32 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Mar 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 18 of 18)

- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.12086/) (2022)
- [FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.03832/) (2015)
- [Joint Face Detection and Alignment using Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.02878/) (2016)
- [VoxCeleb: a large-scale speaker identification dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.08612/) (2017)
- [First Order Motion Model for Image Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.00196/) (2020)
- [Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.14808/) (2020)
- [Thin-Plate Spline Motion Model for Image Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14367/) (2022)
- [DeepFaceLab: Integrated, flexible and extensible face-swapping framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.05535/) (2020)
- [Differentially Private Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09929/) (2022)
- [CIAGAN: Conditional Identity Anonymization Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.09544/) (2020)
- [AnonymousNet: Natural Face De-Identification with Measurable Privacy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.12620/) (2019)
- [Live Face De-Identification in Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.08348/) (2019)
- [A Hybrid Model for Identity Obfuscation by Face Replacement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.04779/) (2018)
- [A Compact Embedding for Facial Expression Similarity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.11283/) (2018)
- [SAFA: Structure Aware Face Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.04928/) (2021)
- [GANonymization: A GAN-based Face Anonymization Framework for Preserving Emotional Expressions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.02143/) (2023)
- [Temporally coherent video anonymization through GAN inpainting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.02328/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Face De-identification: State-of-the-art Methods and Comparative Studies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.09863/) (2024)
- [Now You See Me, Now You Don't: A Unified Framework for Expression Consistent Anonymization in Talking Head Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.11635/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Face de-identification in videos is a challenging task in the domain of computer vision, primarily used in privacy-preserving applications. Despite the considerable progress achieved through generative vision models, there remain multiple challenges in the latest approaches. They lack a comprehensive discussion and evaluation of aspects such as realism, temporal coherence, and preservation of non-identifiable features. In our work, we propose RID-Twin: a novel pipeline that leverages the state-of-the-art generative models, and decouples identity from motion to perform automatic face de-identification in videos. We investigate the task from a holistic point of view and discuss how our approach addresses the pertinent existing challenges in this domain. We evaluate the performance of our methodology on the widely employed VoxCeleb2 dataset, and also a custom dataset designed to accommodate the limitations of certain behavioral variations absent in the VoxCeleb2 dataset. We discuss the implications and advantages of our work and suggest directions for future research.