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Mean squared error (MSE) and $\ell_p$ norms have largely dominated the measurement of loss in neural networks due to their simplicity and analytical properties. However, when used to assess visual information loss, these simple norms are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Li-Heng Chen , Christos G. Bampis , Zhi Li , Andrey Norkin , Alan C. Bovik

Adversarial attacks expose a fundamental vulnerability in modern deep vision models by exploiting their dependence on dense, pixel-level representations that are highly sensitive to imperceptible perturbations. Traditional defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jingjie He , Weijie Liang , Zihan Shan , Matthew Caesar

The presence of residual and dense neural networks which greatly promotes the development of image Super-Resolution(SR) have witnessed a lot of impressive results. Depending on our observation, although more layers and connections could…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Yuan Ma , Kewen Liu , Hongxia Xiong , Panpan Fang , Xiaojun Li , Yalei Chen , Chaoyang Liu

Image similarity is a core concept in Image Analysis due to its extensive application in computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition. The objective of our study is to evaluate Quasi-Euclidean metric as an image similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Vibhor Singh , Vishesh Devgan , Ishu Anand

We propose a method for semi-supervised semantic segmentation using an adversarial network. While most existing discriminators are trained to classify input images as real or fake on the image level, we design a discriminator in a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wei-Chih Hung , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Yan-Ting Liou , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The traditional methods of image assessment, such as mean squared error (MSE), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), are all based on the absolute error of images. Pearson's inner-product correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Jianji Wang , Nanning Zheng , Badong Chen , Jose C. Principe

We present an adversarial framework to craft perturbations that mislead classifiers by accounting for the image content and the semantics of the labels. The proposed framework combines a structure loss and a semantic adversarial loss in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

Deep neural network-based image classifications are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The image classifications can be easily fooled by adding artificial small and imperceptible perturbations to input images. As one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jindong Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

State-of-the-art deep neural networks have proven to be highly powerful in a broad range of tasks, including semantic image segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, i.e., non-perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kira Maag , Asja Fischer

Regional adversarial attacks often rely on complicated methods for generating adversarial perturbations, making it hard to compare their efficacy against well-known attacks. In this study, we show that effective regional perturbations can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Utku Ozbulak , Jonathan Peck , Wesley De Neve , Bart Goossens , Yvan Saeys , Arnout Van Messem

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

We propose an adversarial defense method that achieves state-of-the-art performance among attack-agnostic adversarial defense methods while also maintaining robustness to input resolution, scale of adversarial perturbation, and scale of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Bo Sun , Nian-hsuan Tsai , Fangchen Liu , Ronald Yu , Hao Su

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithm is a setup built upon a realistic assumption that access to a large amount of labeled data is tough. In this study, we present a generalized framework, named SCAR, standing for Selecting Clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Dongyoon Yang , Kunwoong Kim , Yongdai Kim

We show how perceptual embeddings of the visual system can be constructed at inference-time with no training data or deep neural network features. Our perceptual embeddings are solutions to a weighted least squares (WLS) problem, defined at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Daniel Severo , Lucas Theis , Johannes Ballé

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) aim to bridge the gap between neuroscience and machine learning by emulating the structure of the human nervous system. However, like convolutional neural networks, SNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Weiran Chen , Qi Xu

Sparse attacks are to optimize the magnitude of adversarial perturbations for fooling deep neural networks (DNNs) involving only a few perturbed pixels (i.e., under the l0 constraint), suitable for interpreting the vulnerability of DNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Hao Wang , Brian Jalaian , Xu Yuan

Lossy image compression is often limited by the simplicity of the chosen loss measure. Recent research suggests that generative adversarial networks have the ability to overcome this limitation and serve as a multi-modal loss, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Jan P. Klopp , Keng-Chi Liu , Liang-Gee Chen , Shao-Yi Chien

Medical imaging plays a significant role in detecting and treating various diseases. However, these images often happen to be of too poor quality, leading to decreased efficiency, extra expenses, and even incorrect diagnoses. Therefore, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Alnur Alimanov , Md Baharul Islam

An average healthy person does not perceive the world in just black and white. Moreover, the perceived world is not composed of pixels and through vision humans perceive structures. However, the acquisition and display systems discretize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-26 Dogancan Temel , Ghassan AlRegib

State-of-the-art deep neural networks have been shown to be extremely powerful in a variety of perceptual tasks like semantic segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the input which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kira Maag , Asja Fischer