Diffusion-Guided Adversarial Perturbation Injection for Generalizable Defense Against Facial Manipulations

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• Existing proactive defense approaches have limited effectiveness due to suboptimal perturbation injection strategies.limitation 90%
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  existing approaches remain limited in effectiveness due to suboptimal perturbation injection strategies

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a limitation of prior work

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• Existing proactive defense approaches are typically designed under white-box assumptions, targeting only simple GAN-based attribute editing.limitation 90%
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  typically designed under white-box assumptions, targeting only simple GAN-based attribute editing

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  Directly stated in the abstract as a limitation of prior work

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• AEGIS is the first diffusion-guided paradigm for generating adversarial facial images for identity shielding.method 90%
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  we propose AEGIS, the first diffusion-guided paradigm in which the AdvErsarial facial images are Generated for Identity Shielding

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  Explicitly stated in the abstract as a novel contribution

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• The limited defense capability of existing approaches stems from the peak-clipping constraint where perturbations are forcibly truncated due to a fixed L∞-bound.technical 85%
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  the limited defense capability of existing approaches stems from the peak-clipping constraint, where perturbations are forcibly truncated due to a fixed L∞-bounded

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  Directly stated observation about prior work limitations

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• AEGIS injects adversarial perturbations into the latent space along the DDIM denoising trajectory instead of directly modifying pixels.method 90%
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  instead of directly modifying pixels, AEGIS injects adversarial perturbations into the latent space along the DDIM denoising trajectory

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  Directly stated technical approach in the abstract

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• AEGIS achieves robust manipulation disruption in white-box settings.result 85%
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  In white-box settings, it achieves robust manipulation disruption

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• AEGIS demonstrates strong cross-model transferability in black-box settings.result 85%
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  whereas in black-box settings, it demonstrates strong cross-model transferability

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• AEGIS maintains high perceptual quality while delivering strong defense effectiveness.result 85%
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  AEGIS consistently delivers strong defense effectiveness while maintaining high perceptual quality

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Competitive landscape

A diffusion-guided defense system that injects adversarial perturbations into latent space to shield facial identities from GAN and diffusion-based deepfakes, offering robust protection in both white-box and black-box scenarios.