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Robust and computationally efficient anomaly detection in videos is a problem in video surveillance systems. We propose a technique to increase robustness and reduce computational complexity in a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Usama Muneeb , Erdem Koyuncu , Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Hulya Seferoglu , Mehmet Fatih Erden , Ahmet Enis Cetin

Humans rely heavily on shape information to recognize objects. Conversely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are biased more towards texture. This is perhaps the main reason why CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ali Borji

Comparing the internal representations of neural networks is a central goal in both neuroscience and machine learning. Standard alignment metrics operate on raw neural activations, implicitly assuming that similar representations produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sunny Liu , Habon Issa , André Longon , Liv Gorton , Meenakshi Khosla , David Klindt

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples generated by imposing subtle perturbations to inputs that lead a model to predict incorrect outputs. Currently, a large number of researches on defending adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hua Wang , Jie Wang , Zhaoxia Yin

Capsule Networks preserve the hierarchical spatial relationships between objects, and thereby bears a potential to surpass the performance of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in performing tasks like image classification. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Alberto Marchisio , Giorgio Nanfa , Faiq Khalid , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for embedded applications presents many challenges in balancing resource-efficiency and task-related accuracy. These two aspects have been well-researched in the field of CNN compression. In…

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved beyond human-level accuracy in the image classification task and are widely deployed in real-world environments. However, CNNs show vulnerability to adversarial perturbations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Desheng Wang , Weidong Jin , Yunpu Wu , Aamir Khan

We show that adversarial examples, i.e., the visually imperceptible perturbations that result in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) fail, can be alleviated with a mechanism based on foveations---applying the CNN in different image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Yan Luo , Xavier Boix , Gemma Roig , Tomaso Poggio , Qi Zhao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be quite effective in a vast array of machine learning tasks, with recent examples in cyber security and autonomous vehicles. Despite the superior performance of DNNs in these applications, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples where inputs with imperceptible perturbations mislead DNNs to incorrect results. Despite the potential risk they bring, adversarial examples are also valuable for providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chongzhi Zhang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yitao Xu , Hang Yu , Yuqing Ma , Tianlin Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have dominated the majority of computer vision tasks. However, CNNs' vulnerability to adversarial attacks has raised concerns about deploying these models to safety-critical applications. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Keng-Hsin Liao , Chin-Yuan Yeh , Hsi-Wen Chen , Ming-Syan Chen

In this paper we present a class of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) called non-overlapping CNNs in the study of approximation capabilities of CNNs. We prove that such networks with sigmoidal activation function are capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Weike Chang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at image classification but remain vulnerable to common corruptions that humans handle with ease. A key reason for this fragility is their reliance on local texture cues rather than global object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Robin Narsingh Ranabhat , Longwei Wang , Amit Kumar Patel , KC santosh

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly effective in solving many complex real-world problems. However, these models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbation attacks, and despite the plethora of research in this domain, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Gil Fidel , Ron Bitton , Asaf Shabtai

In recent years, there has been growing concern over the vulnerability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to image perturbations. However, achieving general robustness against different types of perturbations remains challenging, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chun Yang Tan , Kazuhiko Kawamoto , Hiroshi Kera

Training deep networks that generalize to a wide range of variations in test data is essential to building accurate and robust image classifiers. One standard strategy is to apply data augmentation to synthetically enlarge the training set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Yunhan Zhao , Ye Tian , Charless Fowlkes , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

Adversarial examples pose significant threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), and their property of transferability in the black-box setting has led to the emergence of transfer-based attacks, making it feasible to target real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yuyang Luo , Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Yingzhe He

Although deep neural networks have achieved great performance on classification tasks, recent studies showed that well trained networks can be fooled by adding subtle noises. This paper introduces a new approach to improve neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Hieu Le , Hans Walker , Dung Tran , Peter Chin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have had great success in many real-world applications and have also been used to model visual processing in the brain. However, these networks are quite brittle - small changes in the input image can…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-30 Brian Hu , Stefan Mihalas

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in image recognition. Although the internal patterns of the input images are effectively learned by the CNNs, these patterns only constitute a small proportion of useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhengsu Chen , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Shaojie Tang