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Date, Time, and Location
Aug 27, 2026
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
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Robust Concept Protection against Diffusion-Based Image Editing and Personalization
Diffusion-based image editing and personalization models have made it increasingly easy to manipulate and replicate visual concepts from only a few reference images. However, existing protection methods often overfit to a single attack model and fail to generalize across diverse editing pipelines.
In this presentation, I will discuss recent advances in concept protection for generative AI systems, focusing on targeted perturbation strategies and style-sensitive diffusion representations. I will also present experimental findings across multiple editing and fine-tuning scenarios, highlighting the challenges of robustness, transferability, and imperceptibility in practical protection settings. Finally, I will discuss open problems and future directions toward trustworthy generative content ownership.
About the Speaker
Qiuyu Tang is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on trustworthy AI, media forensics, and robust protection methods against diffusion-based image editing and personalization systems. Her recent work explores concept protection, style safeguarding, semantic image manipulation, and generative AI robustness. She has contributed to multiple publications in computer vision and AI safety, including research on diffusion model protection and manipulation detection, and has also served as a conference workshop organizer.
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