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Despite substantial advances in network architecture performance, the susceptibility of adversarial attacks makes deep learning challenging to implement in safety-critical applications. This paper proposes a data-centric approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas , Abdul Ghani Naim

Recent studies have shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to a small perturbation of input called "adversarial examples". In this work, we propose a new feedforward CNN that improves robustness in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Jonghoon Jin , Aysegul Dundar , Eugenio Culurciello

Quantizing neural networks to low-bitwidth is important for model deployment on resource-limited edge hardware. Although a quantized network has a smaller model size and memory footprint, it is fragile to adversarial attacks. However, few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chaofan Tao , Ngai Wong

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

Machine-learning models can be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted input perturbations that force models to output wrong predictions. While uncertainty quantification has been recently proposed to detect adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emanuele Ledda , Daniele Angioni , Giorgio Piras , Giorgio Fumera , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Deep learning algorithms have been recently targeted by attackers due to their vulnerability. Several research studies have been conducted to address this issue and build more robust deep learning models. Non-continuous deep models are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali

This work proposes a unified three-stage framework that produces a quantized DNN with balanced fault and attack robustness. The first stage improves attack resilience via fine-tuning that desensitizes feature representations to small input…

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) are increasingly deployed in edge and resource-constrained environments due to their efficiency in computation and memory usage. While shown to distort the gradient landscape and weaken conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Reducing the memory footprint of Machine Learning (ML) models, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is essential to enable their deployment into resource-constrained tiny devices. However, a disadvantage of DNN models is their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Ferheen Ayaz , Idris Zakariyya , José Cano , Sye Loong Keoh , Jeremy Singer , Danilo Pau , Mounia Kharbouche-Harrari

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) models are one of the most frequently used deep learning networks, and extensively used in both academia and industry. Recent studies demonstrated that adversarial attacks against such models can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Ehsan Nowroozi , Yassine Mekdad , Mohammad Hajian Berenjestanaki , Mauro Conti , Abdeslam EL Fergougui

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) models play a vital role in achieving state-of-the-art performances in various technological fields. CNNs are not limited to Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computer Vision (CV) but also have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ehsan Nowroozi , Samaneh Ghelichkhani , Imran Haider , Ali Dehghantanha

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent performances in various computer vision tasks, they often misclassify with malicious samples, a.k.a. adversarial examples. Adversarial training is a popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hiroki Adachi , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi , Yasunori Ishii , Kazuki Kozuka

While neural networks have achieved high accuracy on standard image classification benchmarks, their accuracy drops to nearly zero in the presence of small adversarial perturbations to test inputs. Defenses based on regularization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Aditi Raghunathan , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

Given the outstanding progress that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made on natural image classification and object recognition problems, it is shown that deep learning methods can achieve very good recognition performance on many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yingpeng Deng , Lina J. Karam

In neural network (NN) security, safeguarding model integrity and resilience against adversarial attacks has become paramount. This study investigates the application of stochastic computing (SC) as a novel mechanism to fortify NN models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Faeze S. Banitaba , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

Quantizing deep neural networks is an effective method for reducing memory consumption and improving inference speed, and is thus useful for implementation in resource-constrained devices. However, it is still hard for extremely low-bit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kohei Yamamoto

The existence of adversarial attacks on convolutional neural networks (CNN) questions the fitness of such models for serious applications. The attacks manipulate an input image such that misclassification is evoked while still looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Mohammadreza Amirian , Friedhelm Schwenker , Thilo Stadelmann

Neural network quantization has become increasingly popular due to efficient memory consumption and faster computation resulting from bitwise operations on the quantized networks. Even though they exhibit excellent generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Kartik Gupta , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network, and the risk they introduce cannot be assessed through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

ML is shifting from the cloud to the edge. Edge computing reduces the surface exposing private data and enables reliable throughput guarantees in real-time applications. Of the panoply of devices deployed at the edge, resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Miguel Costa , Sandro Pinto