{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/darker-than-black-box-face-reconstruction","title":"Darker than Black-Box: Face Reconstruction from Similarity Queries","arxiv_id":"2106.14290","date":"2021-06-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Anton Razzhigaev","Klim Kireev","Igor Udovichenko","Aleksandr Petiushko"],"abstract":"Several methods for inversion of face recognition models were recently presented, attempting to reconstruct a face from deep templates. Although some of these approaches work in a black-box setup using only face embeddings, usually, on the end-user side, only similarity scores are provided. Therefore, these algorithms are inapplicable in such scenarios. We propose a novel approach that allows reconstructing the face querying only similarity scores of the black-box model. While our algorithm operates in a more general setup, experiments show that it is query efficient and outperforms the existing methods.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14290v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14290v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"darker-than-black-box-face-reconstruction","repo_url":"https://github.com/papermsucode/fullbboxrestoration","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"face-recognition","task_name":"Face Recognition"},{"task_slug":"face-reconstruction","task_name":"Face Reconstruction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2106.14290","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}