The importance of protecting personal information, like, a person's address or health history, is well known and commonly discussed. However, images also contain sensitive information that can compromise a person's privacy or be used for nefarious purposes. To date, most methods for preserving privacy with images have relied on obfuscation techniques, such as pixelation, blurring, or masking parts of the image. However,
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