cs.CVOct 30, 2026

TADP: Dual-Branch Temporally Adaptive Differential Privacy for Expression-Aware Video Anonymization

Authors: Feng Xu, Xun Li, Lars Petersson, Yulei Sui, David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Dadong Wang

Organizations: UNSW Sydney · CSIRO, Australia

Abstract

We present TADP, a temporally adaptive differential privacy (DP) framework for inference-time privacy-preserving video generation under fixed-length clip-replacement adjacency. TADP uses a dual-branch design to extract identity and expression representations, clips and privatizes both branches with temporally adaptive Gaussian mechanisms whose noise scales depend only on preceding privatized releases within the same clip and are bounded below by history-uniform calibrated minima, and accounts for their joint release via adaptive Rényi Differential Privacy (RDP) composition. The clip-level RDP guarantee is converted to (ε,δ)(\varepsilon,δ)-differential privacy, while soft quantization and subsequent temporal processing are applied only after privatization as DP post-processing. Experiments on facial expression datasets show reduced identity leakage under evaluated attacks, usable perceptual quality and temporal stability, and high facial expression recognition utility relative to the evaluated privacy-preserving baselines. TADP formally satisfies clip-level DP and empirically provides a favorable privacy--utility trade-off under the evaluated threat models and datasets.

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