Tao Wang

Tao Wang

📝 Selected Publications

( * indicates the corresponding author. Full list of publications)

First Author

  1. [2025 arXiv] Make Identity Unextractable yet Perceptible: Synthesis-Based Privacy Protection for Subject Faces in Photos.
    Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Xiangli Xiao, Kun Xu, Lin Yuan, Wenying Wen, and Yuming Fang.
    arXiv, [code], [API], [TL;DR]

  2. [2025 IEEE TBIOM] Seeing is not Believing: An Identity Hider for Human Vision Privacy Protection.
    Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Zixuan Yang, Xiangli Xiao, Hua Zhang, and Zhongyun Hua.
    IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, JCR Q2, [code]

  3. [2025 IEEE TIFS] Beyond Privacy: Generating Privacy-Preserving Faces Supporting Robust Image Authentication.
    Tao Wang, Wenying Weng*, Xiangli Xiao, Zhongyun Hua, Yushu Zhang, and Yuming Fang.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, CCF A, JCR Q1, [code], [TL;DR]

  4. [2024 ACM MM] Make Privacy Renewable! Generating Privacy-Preserving Faces Supporting Cancelable Biometric Recognition.
    Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Xiangli Xiao, Lin Yuan, Zhihua Xia, and Jian Weng.
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia, CCF A, [code]

  5. [2024 ACM CSUR] Security and Privacy on Generative Data in AIGC: A Survey.
    Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Shuren Qi, Ruoyu Zhao, Zhihua Xia, and Jian Weng.
    ACM Computing Surveys, IF 28, JCR Q1, 🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper, [reading list]

Core Author

  1. [2025 IEEE TPAMI] Make Identity Indistinguishable: Utility-Preserving Face Dataset Publication with Provable Privacy Guarantees.
    Yushu Zhang, Junhao Ji*, Tao Wang, Ruoyu Zhao, Wenying Wen, and Yong Xiang.
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, CCF A, JCR Q1

  2. [2025 IEEE TDSC] Tailor-made Face Privacy Protection via Class-wise Targeted Universal Adversarial Perturbations.
    Yushu Zhang, Zixuan Yang, Tao Wang*, Zhongyun Hua, and Jian Weng.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, CCF A, JCR Q1

  3. [2024 ACM MM] Once-for-all: Efficient Visual Face Privacy Protection via Person-specific Veils.
    Zixuan Yang, Yushu Zhang*, Tao Wang, Zhongyun Hua, Zhihua Xia, and Jian Weng.
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia, CCF A, 🏆 Honourable Mention Award, [TL;DR]

  4. [2023 IEEE TIFS] RAPP: Reversible Privacy Preservation for Various Face Attributes.
    Yushu Zhang, Tao Wang, Ruoyu Zhao*, Wenying Wen, and Youwen Zhu.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, CCF A, JCR Q1, [TL;DR]