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Mays Y. Mhawi, Hikmat N. Abdullah, Axel Sikora

• Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have earned significant attention in various domains due to their generative model’s compelling ability to generate realistic examples probably drawn from sample distribution. Image security indicates the process of protecting digital images from unauthorized access, modification, or distribution. This requires a guarantee of image privacy, integrity, andGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have earned significant attention in various domains due to their generative model’s compelling ability to generate realistic examples probably drawn from sample distribution. Image security indicates the process of protecting digital images from unauthorized access, modification, or distribution. This requires a guarantee of image privacy, integrity, and authenticity to prohibit them from being exploited by malicious attacks. GANs can also be utilized for improving image security by exploiting its generation ability in encryption, steganography, and privacy-preserving tech-niques. This paper reviews GANs-based image security techniques providing a systematic overview of current literature and comparing the role of GANs in image encryption, image steganography, and priva-cy preserving from multiple dimensions. Additionally, it outlines future research directions to further explore the potential of GANs in addressing privacy and image security concerns.…