ECCV 2026 h5-index: 262

Visible Yet Unrecognizable: Frequency-Selective Facial Privacy via Attention

A. Kumar, A. Agarwal

An attention-guided, frequency-selective framework that keeps faces visibly intact to humans while rendering them unrecognizable to AI recognition models.

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WICV @ ECCV 2026 Women in Computer Vision

Beyond Euclidean Space: Hyperbolic Identity Geometry for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification

S. Gehlot, A. Kumar, A. Agarwal

Modeling identity in hyperbolic space to close the viewpoint gap between aerial and ground imagery for robust person re-identification.

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FG 2025 h5-index: 40

Your Face, Your Privacy: Combating Unauthorized Usage

A. Kumar, A. Agarwal, N. Ratha

A novel adversarial defense mechanism engineered to protect facial biometrics from unauthorized deep learning feature extraction.

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WACV 2025 h5-index: 109

On Which Data Distribution (Synthetic or Real) We Should Rely for Soft Biometric Classification

M. RA*, A. Kumar*, A. Agarwal

An empirical investigation comparing synthetic vs. real distributions for robust demographic and soft-biometric classification.

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NeurIPS 2025 W WiML Workshop

Deep Models Under Domain Shift: A Sketch-Based Study

R. Jain, A. Agarwal, A. Kumar

Exploring the resilience of foundational vision models when subjected to severe cross-domain shifts utilizing sketch-based modalities.

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AAAI 2026 h5-index: 232

Semantic-Guided Sketch-to-RGB Image Generation via Controlled Diffusion for Improved Sketch Recognition

R. Jain, A. Kumar, A. Agarwal

A generative framework leveraging semantic constraints to synthesize high-fidelity, photorealistic RGB images from structural sketches.

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CVPRW 2026 AI for Creative Visual Content

Faces in the Wild: GAN-Driven Normalization for Robust Facial Recognition

Mohit, A. Kumar, A. Agarwal

Utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks to normalize extreme pose and illumination variations in unconstrained facial imagery.

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Core Patent
Granted

Silent Shield: Image Perturbations that Confound AI, Not Human Eyes

Officially titled "Method and System for Generating Unlearnable Images Using Non-Linear Multiplicative Perturbations" — a privacy-preserving framework that generates visually faithful yet AI-resistant images to protect identity from unauthorized machine learning models.

Indian Patent No. 522247
Lead Inventors Mr. Atul Kumar, Dr. Akshay Agarwal
Status Granted — 08 August 2026