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cs.CV2026

Anti-Persona: Disrupting Unauthorized Identity Binding and Recognition in Personalized Vision--Language Models

Abhishek Basu, Fahad Shamshad, Karthik Nandakumar

Few-shot personalization enables large vision--language models (LVLMs) to learn user-specific visual concepts for applications such as personalized retrieval and subject-aware quer…

cs.CV2026

SafeDiffusion-R1: Online Reward Steering for Safe Diffusion Post-Training

Komal Kumar, Ankan Deria, Abhishek Basu +3

Diffusion models have been widely studied for removing unsafe content learned during pre-training. Existing methods require expensive supervised data, either unsafe-text paired wit…

cs.LG2026

Class-wise Contribution Estimation via Logit Maximization for Federated Learning

Asim Ukaye, Nurbek Tastan, Mubarak Abdu-Aguye +1

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative learning of computer vision models, where privacy and regulatory constraints prevent centralizing data across devices or organizations…

cs.CV2026

Towards Calibrating Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Models

Ashshak Sharifdeen, Fahad Shamshad, Muhammad Akhtar Munir +6

Prompt tuning of large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP enables efficient task adaptation without updating model weights. However, it often leads to poor confidence calibr…

cs.CV2026

VFace: A Training-Free Approach for Diffusion-Based Video Face Swapping

Sanoojan Baliah, Yohan Abeysinghe, Rusiru Thushara +4

We present a training-free, plug-and-play method, namely VFace, for high-quality face swapping in videos. It can be seamlessly integrated with image-based face swapping approaches…

cs.CV2026

RAVEN: Erasing Invisible Watermarks via Novel View Synthesis

Fahad Shamshad, Nils Lukas, Karthik Nandakumar

Invisible watermarking has become a critical mechanism for authenticating AI-generated image content, with major platforms deploying watermarking schemes at scale. However, evaluat…

cs.CR2025

SPQR: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Safety Alignment under Benign Model Adaptation

Mohammed Talha Alam, Nada Saadi, Fahad Shamshad +4

Text-to-image diffusion models can emit copyrighted, unsafe, or private content. Safety alignment aims to suppress specific concepts, yet evaluations seldom test whether safety per…

cs.CV2025

Calibration-Aware Prompt Learning for Medical Vision-Language Models

Abhishek Basu, Fahad Shamshad, Ashshak Sharifdeen +2

Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse medical imaging tasks by leveraging large-scale image-text pretraining. However, t…

cs.CV2025

First-Place Solution to NeurIPS 2024 Invisible Watermark Removal Challenge

Fahad Shamshad, Tameem Bakr, Yahia Shaaban +3

Content watermarking is an important tool for the authentication and copyright protection of digital media. However, it is unclear whether existing watermarks are robust against ad…

cs.CV2025

FaceAnonyMixer: Cancelable Faces via Identity Consistent Latent Space Mixing

Mohammed Talha Alam, Fahad Shamshad, Fakhri Karray +1

Advancements in face recognition (FR) technologies have amplified privacy concerns, necessitating methods that protect identity while maintaining recognition utility. Existing face…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Robust-LLaVA: On the Effectiveness of Large-Scale Robust Image Encoders for Multi-modal Large Language Models

Hashmat Shadab Malik, Fahad Shamshad, Muzammal Naseer +3

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks but remain vulnerable to visual adversarial perturbations that can induce hallucinations, manipulate respon…

cs.CV2024

Introducing SDICE: An Index for Assessing Diversity of Synthetic Medical Datasets

Mohammed Talha Alam, Raza Imam, Mohammad Areeb Qazi +2

Advancements in generative modeling are pushing the state-of-the-art in synthetic medical image generation. These synthetic images can serve as an effective data augmentation metho…

cs.CV2024

PromptSmooth: Certifying Robustness of Medical Vision-Language Models via Prompt Learning

Noor Hussein, Fahad Shamshad, Muzammal Naseer +1

Medical vision-language models (Med-VLMs) trained on large datasets of medical image-text pairs and later fine-tuned for specific tasks have emerged as a mainstream paradigm in med…

cs.CV2024

Makeup-Guided Facial Privacy Protection via Untrained Neural Network Priors

Fahad Shamshad, Muzammal Naseer, Karthik Nandakumar

Deep learning-based face recognition (FR) systems pose significant privacy risks by tracking users without their consent. While adversarial attacks can protect privacy, they often…

cs.CV2024

BAPLe: Backdoor Attacks on Medical Foundational Models using Prompt Learning

Asif Hanif, Fahad Shamshad, Muhammad Awais +5

Medical foundation models are gaining prominence in the medical community for their ability to derive general representations from extensive collections of medical image-text pairs…

cs.CV2024

STEREO: A Two-Stage Framework for Adversarially Robust Concept Erasing from Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Koushik Srivatsan, Fahad Shamshad, Muzammal Naseer +2

The rapid proliferation of large-scale text-to-image diffusion (T2ID) models has raised serious concerns about their potential misuse in generating harmful content. Although numero…

cs.CV2024

A Federated Learning-Friendly Approach for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of SAM in 3D Segmentation

Mothilal Asokan, Joseph Geo Benjamin, Mohammad Yaqub +1

Adapting foundation models for medical image analysis requires finetuning them on a considerable amount of data because of extreme distribution shifts between natural (source) data…

cs.CV2024

Probing the Efficacy of Federated Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision Transformers for Medical Image Classification

Naif Alkhunaizi, Faris Almalik, Rouqaiah Al-Refai +2

With the advent of large pre-trained transformer models, fine-tuning these models for various downstream tasks is a critical problem. Paucity of training data, the existence of dat…

cs.CV2024

Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Visual State Space Models

Hashmat Shadab Malik, Fahad Shamshad, Muzammal Naseer +3

Vision State Space Models (VSSMs), a novel architecture that combines the strengths of recurrent neural networks and latent variable models, have demonstrated remarkable performanc…