Temporal Unlearnable Examples: Preventing Personal Video Data from Unauthorized Exploitation by Object Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07483v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:11:33 GMT
• Title: Temporal Unlearnable Examples: Preventing Personal Video Data from Unauthorized Exploitation by Object Tracking
• Authors: Qiangqiang Wu, Yi Yu, Chenqi Kong, Ziquan Liu, Jia Wan, Haoliang Li, Alex C. Kot, Antoni B. Chan,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents the first investigation on preventing personal video data from unauthorized exploitation by deep trackers.<n>We propose a novel generative framework for generating Temporal Unlearnable Examples (TUEs)<n>Our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in video data-privacy protection, with strong transferability across VOT models, datasets, and temporal matching tasks.
• Score: 90.81846867441993
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the rise of social media, vast amounts of user-uploaded videos (e.g., YouTube) are utilized as training data for Visual Object Tracking (VOT). However, the VOT community has largely overlooked video data-privacy issues, as many private videos have been collected and used for training commercial models without authorization. To alleviate these issues, this paper presents the first investigation on preventing personal video data from unauthorized exploitation by deep trackers. Existing methods for preventing unauthorized data use primarily focus on image-based tasks (e.g., image classification), directly applying them to videos reveals several limitations, including inefficiency, limited effectiveness, and poor generalizability. To address these issues, we propose a novel generative framework for generating Temporal Unlearnable Examples (TUEs), and whose efficient computation makes it scalable for usage on large-scale video datasets. The trackers trained w/ TUEs heavily rely on unlearnable noises for temporal matching, ignoring the original data structure and thus ensuring training video data-privacy. To enhance the effectiveness of TUEs, we introduce a temporal contrastive loss, which further corrupts the learning of existing trackers when using our TUEs for training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in video data-privacy protection, with strong transferability across VOT models, datasets, and temporal matching tasks.

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