Privacy Protection Against Personalized Text-to-Image Synthesis via Cross-image Consistency Constraints

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Authors: Guanyu Wang, Kailong Wang, Yihao Huang, Mingyi Zhou, Geguang Pu, Li Li
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Abstract

The rapid advancement of diffusion models and personalization techniques has made it possible to recreate individual portraits from just a few publicly available images. While such capabilities empower various creative applications, they also introduce serious privacy concerns, as adversaries can exploit them to generate highly realistic impersonations. To counter these threats, anti-personalization methods have been proposed, which add adversarial perturbations to published images to disrupt the training of personalization models. However, existing approaches largely overlook the intrinsic multi-image nature of personalization and instead adopt a naive strategy of applying perturbations independently, as commonly done in single-image settings. This neglects the opportunity to leverage inter-image relationships for stronger privacy protection. Therefore, we advocate for a group-level perspective on privacy protection against personalization. Specifically, we introduce Cross-image Anti-Personalization (CAP), a novel framework that enhances resistance to personalization by enforcing style consistency across perturbed images. Furthermore, we develop a dynamic ratio adjustment strategy that adaptively balances the impact of the consistency loss throughout the attack iterations. Extensive experiments on the classical CelebA-HQ and VGGFace2 benchmarks show that CAP outperforms eight existing methods.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Face recognition and analysis

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
Publisher
ACM
Pages
2003–2011
Publication date
15 June 2026
Language
EN