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We propose to generate adversarial samples by modifying activations of upper layers encoding semantically meaningful concepts. The original sample is shifted towards a target sample, yielding an adversarial sample, by using the modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes Schneider , Giovanni Apruzzese

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

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of pre-trained language models to adversarial attacks. Existing adversarial defense techniques attempt to reconstruct adversarial examples within feature or text spaces. However, these methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Heng Yang , Ke Li

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Face Recognition systems are widely deployed in real-world applications, but they also raise privacy concerns due to unauthorized collection and misuse of facial data. Existing adversarial privacy protection methods rely on input-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiabei Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Yi Zhang

Despite the recent advances in a wide spectrum of applications, machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Attackers add carefully-crafted perturbations to input, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Ninghao Liu , Mengnan Du , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu , Xia Hu

Adversarial examples contain carefully crafted perturbations that can fool deep neural networks (DNNs) into making wrong predictions. Enhancing the adversarial robustness of DNNs has gained considerable interest in recent years. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shao-Yuan Lo , Vishal M. Patel

Adversarial attacks against neural networks in a regression setting are a critical yet understudied problem. In this work, we advance the state of the art by investigating adversarial attacks against regression networks and by formulating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

Deep neural networks are at the forefront of machine learning research. However, despite achieving impressive performance on complex tasks, they can be very sensitive: Small perturbations of inputs can be sufficient to induce incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

We propose a probabilistic perspective on adversarial examples, allowing us to embed subjective understanding of semantics as a distribution into the process of generating adversarial examples, in a principled manner. Despite significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-26 Andi Zhang , Mingtian Zhang , Damon Wischik

Adversarial classification is the task of performing robust classification in the presence of a strategic attacker. Originating from information hiding and multimedia forensics, adversarial classification recently received a lot of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Pascal Schöttle , Alexander Schlögl , Cecilia Pasquini , Rainer Böhme

In recent years novel architecture components for image classification have been developed, starting with attention and patches used in transformers. While prior works have analyzed the influence of some aspects of architecture components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

The latest generation of transformer-based vision models has proven to be superior to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models across several vision tasks, largely attributed to their remarkable prowess in relation modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Quazi Mishkatul Alam , Bilel Tarchoun , Ihsen Alouani , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Today's state-of-the-art image classifiers fail to correctly classify carefully manipulated adversarial images. In this work, we develop a new, localized adversarial attack that generates adversarial examples by imperceptibly altering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Eitan Rothberg , Tingting Chen , Luo Jie , Hao Ji

A common observation regarding adversarial attacks is that they mostly give rise to false activation at the penultimate layer to fool the classifier. Assuming that these activation values correspond to certain features of the input, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Emre Ozfatura , Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Kerem Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji

As a defense strategy against adversarial attacks, adversarial detection aims to identify and filter out adversarial data from the data flow based on discrepancies in distribution and noise patterns between natural and adversarial data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Qian Wang , Chen Li , Yuchen Luo , Hefei Ling , Shijuan Huang , Ruoxi Jia , Ning Yu

Deep learning based image recognition systems have been widely deployed on mobile devices in today's world. In recent studies, however, deep learning models are shown vulnerable to adversarial examples. One variant of adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao

Currently, a plethora of saliency models based on deep neural networks have led great breakthroughs in many complex high-level vision tasks (e.g. scene description, object detection). The robustness of these models, however, has not yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Zhaohui Che , Ali Borji , Guangtao Zhai , Suiyi Ling , Guodong Guo , Patrick Le Callet

This work presents Z-Mask, a robust and effective strategy to improve the adversarial robustness of convolutional networks against physically-realizable adversarial attacks. The presented defense relies on specific Z-score analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Fabio Brau , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo