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Recognizing text from natural images is a hot research topic in computer vision due to its various applications. Despite the enduring research of several decades on optical character recognition (OCR), recognizing texts from natural images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Zhanzhan Cheng , Yangliu Xu , Fan Bai , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Shuigeng Zhou

Studies have shown that machine learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples in theory and practice. Where previous attacks have focused mainly on visual models that exploit the difference between human and machine perception,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Eldor Abdukhamidov , Tamer Abuhmed , Joanna C. S. Santos , Mohammed Abuhamad

We design, implement, and evaluate adversarial decoding, a new, generic text generation technique that produces readable documents for different adversarial objectives. Prior methods either produce easily detectable gibberish, or cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Collin Zhang , Tingwei Zhang , Vitaly Shmatikov

DNN-based image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Most previous adversarial attacks do not have clear patterns, making it difficult to interpret attacks' results and gain insights into classifiers' mechanisms. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ryoya Nara , Yusuke Matsui

Deep learning models, while achieving state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, are susceptible to adversarial attacks that exploit inherent vulnerabilities in their architectures. Adversarial attacks manipulate the input data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shreyasi Mandal

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in recent years, exhibiting impressive performances in several application domains. It has however been shown that they can be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., images altered by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Marco Melis , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Gavin Brown , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

We present an end-to-end trainable approach for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on printed documents. Specifically, we propose a model that predicts a) a two-dimensional character grid (\emph{chargrid}) representation of a document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Christian Reisswig , Anoop R Katti , Marco Spinaci , Johannes Höhne

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are threatened by adversarial examples. Adversarial detection, which distinguishes adversarial images from benign images, is fundamental for robust DNN-based services. Image transformation is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Hui Liu , Bo Zhao , Yuefeng Peng , Weidong Li , Peng Liu

Adversarial vulnerability remains a major obstacle to constructing reliable NLP systems. When imperceptible perturbations are added to raw input text, the performance of a deep learning model may drop dramatically under attacks. Recent work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiahao Zhao , Wenji Mao

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have markedly enhanced the performance of computer vision tasks, yet the specialized nature of these networks often necessitates extensive data and high computational power. Addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiayou Chao , Wei Zhu

Most existing machine learning classifiers are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples. An adversarial example is a sample of input data which has been modified very slightly in a way that is intended to cause a machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Alexey Kurakin , Ian Goodfellow , Samy Bengio

Many real-world applications involve the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines to transform handwritten images into transcripts on which downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) models are applied. In this process, OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Weiping Fu , Zhongqin Wu , Zitao Liu

Some historical and more recent printed documents have been scanned or stored at very low resolutions, such as 60 dpi. Though such scans are relatively easy for humans to read, they still present significant challenges for optical character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Julian D. Gilbey , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Deep-learning-based face recognition (FR) systems are susceptible to adversarial examples in both digital and physical domains. Physical attacks present a greater threat to deployed systems as adversaries can easily access the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Ning Jiang , Yanhong Liu , Dingheng Zeng , Yue Feng , Weihong Deng , Ying Li

Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the task of extracting textual information from scanned documents is a vital and broadly used technology for digitizing and indexing physical documents. Existing technologies perform well for clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Daniel Rotman , Ophir Azulai , Inbar Shapira , Yevgeny Burshtein , Udi Barzelay

Deep Neural Networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial images. Conventional attacks strive for indistinguishable adversarial images with strictly restricted perturbations. Recently, researchers have moved to explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Zhengyu Zhao , Zhuoran Liu , Martha Larson

With the development of high computational devices, deep neural networks (DNNs), in recent years, have gained significant popularity in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. However, previous efforts have shown that DNNs were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Ahoud Alhazmi , Chenliang Li

An intriguing property of deep neural networks is their inherent vulnerability to adversarial inputs, which significantly hinders their application in security-critical domains. Most existing detection methods attempt to use carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Chanh Nguyen , Georgi Georgiev , Yujie Ji , Ting Wang

Deep learning is found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, its adversarial susceptibility in image caption generation is under-explored. We study adversarial examples for vision and language models, which typically adopt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Nayyer Aafaq , Naveed Akhtar , Wei Liu , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

Recent advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) have been driven by transformer-based models. OCR systems are critical in numerous high-stakes domains, yet their vulnerability to adversarial attack remains largely uncharted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham