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Training deep neural networks on images represented as grids of pixels has brought to light an interesting phenomenon known as adversarial examples. Inspired by how humans reconstruct abstract concepts, we attempt to codify the input bitmap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Vishaal Munusamy Kabilan , Brandon Morris , Anh Nguyen

CNNs are poised to become integral parts of many critical systems. Despite their robustness to natural variations, image pixel values can be manipulated, via small, carefully crafted, imperceptible perturbations, to cause a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

Recent research has found that neural networks are vulnerable to several types of adversarial attacks, where the input samples are modified in such a way that the model produces a wrong prediction that misclassifies the adversarial sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Adversarial examples that fool machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, have been a topic of intense research interest, with attacks and defenses being developed in a tight back-and-forth. Most past defenses are best…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Mathias Lecuyer , Vaggelis Atlidakis , Roxana Geambasu , Daniel Hsu , Suman Jana

Neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. From a safety perspective, highly sparse adversarial attacks are particularly dangerous. On the other hand the pixelwise perturbations of sparse attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Despite extensive research into adversarial attacks, we do not know how adversarial attacks affect image pixels. Knowing how image pixels are affected by adversarial attacks has the potential to lead us to better adversarial defenses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Blerta Lindqvist

Despite the efficacy on a variety of computer vision tasks, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their applications in security-critical systems. Recent works have shown the possibility of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

Discrete image tokenizers encode visual inputs as sequences of tokens from a finite vocabulary and are gaining popularity in multimodal systems, including encoder-only, encoder-decoder, and decoder-only models. However, unlike CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Rishika Bhagwatkar , Irina Rish , Nicolas Flammarion , Francesco Croce

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples and make incomprehensible mistakes, which puts a threat on their real-world deployment. Combined with the idea of adversarial training, preprocessing-based defenses are popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Tao Bai , Jun Zhao , Lanqing Guo , Bihan Wen

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can fool them by adding minuscule perturbations to the input images. The robustness of existing defenses suffers greatly under white-box attack settings, where an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aamir Mustafa , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Roland Goecke , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

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

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

Previous work has suggested that preprocessing images through lossy compression can defend against adversarial perturbations, but comprehensive attack evaluations have been lacking. In this paper, we construct strong white-box and adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Samuel Räber , Till Aczel , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Despite their accuracy, neural network-based classifiers are still prone to manipulation through adversarial perturbations. Those perturbations are designed to be misclassified by the neural network, while being perceptually identical to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Ziv Katzir , Yuval Elovici

Deep learning image classification is vulnerable to adversarial attack, even if the attacker changes just a small patch of the image. We propose a defense against patch attacks based on partially occluding the image around each candidate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Michael McCoyd , Won Park , Steven Chen , Neil Shah , Ryan Roggenkemper , Minjune Hwang , Jason Xinyu Liu , David Wagner

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges to the robustness of modern deep neural networks in computer vision, and defending these networks against adversarial attacks has attracted intense research efforts. Among various defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhiyi Dong , Yongyi Mao

Deep learning models are used in safety-critical tasks such as automated driving and face recognition. However, small perturbations in the model input can significantly change the predictions. Adversarial attacks are used to identify small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Issa Oe , Keiichiro Yamamura , Hiroki Ishikura , Ryo Hamahira , Katsuki Fujisawa

Deep neural network image classifiers are reported to be susceptible to adversarial evasion attacks, which use carefully crafted images created to mislead a classifier. Many adversarial attacks belong to the category of dense attacks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 He Zhao , Thanh Nguyen , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Conventional adversarial defenses reduce classification accuracy whether or not a model is under attacks. Moreover, most of image processing based defenses are defeated due to the problem of obfuscated gradients. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya