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Deep networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, yet conventional attack methods utilize static adversarial perturbations that induce fixed mispredictions. In this work, we exploit an overlooked property of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yaoteng Tan , Zikui Cai , M. Salman Asif

To date, traffic obfuscation techniques have been widely adopted to protect network data privacy and security by obscuring the true patterns of traffic. Nevertheless, as the pre-trained models emerge, especially transformer-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Quanliang Jing , Xinxin Fan , Yanyan Liu , Jingping Bi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In previous studies, the use of models encrypted with a secret key was demonstrated to be robust against white-box attacks, but not against black-box…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ryota Iijima , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Though deep neural networks perform challenging tasks excellently, they are susceptible to adversarial examples, which mislead classifiers by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Under the query-free black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Zifei Zhang , Kai Qiao , Jian Chen , Ningning Liang

The notion of adversarial attacks on image classification models based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) is introduced in this work. To classify images, deep learning models called CNNs are frequently used. However, when the networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jaydip Sen , Abhiraj Sen , Ananda Chatterjee

We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-30 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll

In the recent years, pixel-based perceptual algorithms have been successfully applied for privacy-preserving deep learning (DL) based applications. However, their security has been broken in subsequent works by demonstrating a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ijaz Ahmad , Seokjoo Shin

Gradient inversion attack enables recovery of training samples from model gradients in federated learning (FL), and constitutes a serious threat to data privacy. To mitigate this vulnerability, prior work proposed both principled defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ruihan Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuan Guo , Kilian Q. Weinberger

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

In this paper, we propose a defence strategy to improve adversarial robustness by incorporating hidden layer representation. The key of this defence strategy aims to compress or filter input information including adversarial perturbation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Haojing Shen , Sihong Chen , Ran Wang , Xizhao Wang

The advancement of deep object detectors has greatly affected safety-critical fields like autonomous driving. However, physical adversarial camouflage poses a significant security risk by altering object textures to deceive detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jiawei Liang , Siyuan Liang , Jianjie Huang , Chenxi Si , Ming Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiring modifications during inference. Unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

Adversarial images aim to change a target model's decision by minimally perturbing a target image. In the black-box setting, the absence of gradient information often renders this search problem costly in terms of query complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Chuan Guo , Jared S. Frank , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Shadow removal is a task aimed at erasing regional shadows present in images and reinstating visually pleasing natural scenes with consistent illumination. While recent deep learning techniques have demonstrated impressive performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chong Wang , Yi Yu , Lanqing Guo , Bihan Wen

While adversarial perturbation of images to attack deep image classification models pose serious security concerns in practice, this paper suggests a novel paradigm where the concept of image perturbation can benefit classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Juyeop Kim , Jun-Ho Choi , Soobeom Jang , Jong-Seok Lee

In this paper, we propose a model protection method by using block-wise pixel shuffling with a secret key as a preprocessing technique to input images for the first time. The protected model is built by training with such preprocessed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

Recent studies have shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to specifically crafted adversarial inputs that are quasi-imperceptible to humans. In this letter, we propose a novel method to detect adversarial inputs, by augmenting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kirthi Shankar Sivamani , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

Deep neural network image classifiers are reported to be susceptible to adversarial evasion attacks, which use carefully crafted images created to mislead a classifier. Recently, various kinds of adversarial attack methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 He Zhao , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Backdoor attacks can implant malicious behaviours into deep models while preserving performance on clean data, posing a serious threat to safety-critical vision systems. Although backdoor mitigation has been studied extensively for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

Standard adversarial attacks change the predicted class label of a selected image by adding specially tailored small perturbations to its pixels. In contrast, a universal perturbation is an update that can be added to any image in a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ali Shafahi , Mahyar Najibi , Zheng Xu , John Dickerson , Larry S. Davis , Tom Goldstein