The Phantom Menace: Unmasking Privacy Leakages in Vision-Language Models

Simone Caldarella, Massimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci, and Rahaf Aljundi

🗞️News Accepted at Trust What You Learn Workshop @ ECCV 2024

The Phantom Menace teaser

TL;DR

  1. VLMs leak identity information, even when the vision-language alignment and the fine-tuning use anonymized data
  2. Context has little influence on identity leakage
  3. Simple, widely used anonymization techniques, like blurring, are not sufficient to address the problem

Read the full paper on Arxiv