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Inverting Black-Box Face Recognition Systems via Zero-Order Optimization in Eigenface Space

arXiv 2506.09777 ↗First posted 11 Jun 2025cs.CV cs.AIcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Reconstructing facial images from black-box recognition models poses a significant privacy threat. While many methods require access to embeddings, we address the more challenging scenario of model inversion using only similarity scores. This paper introduces DarkerBB, a novel approach that reconstructs color faces by performing zero-order optimization within a PCA-derived eigenface space. Despite this highly limited information, experiments on LFW, AgeDB-30, and CFP-FP benchmarks demonstrate that DarkerBB achieves state-of-the-art verification accuracies in the similarity-only setting, with competitive query efficiency.

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