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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

We present a method to create universal, robust, targeted adversarial image patches in the real world. The patches are universal because they can be used to attack any scene, robust because they work under a wide variety of transformations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Tom B. Brown , Dandelion Mané , Aurko Roy , Martín Abadi , Justin Gilmer

Adversarial attacks pose a significant challenge to the reliable deployment of machine learning models in EdgeAI applications, such as autonomous driving and surveillance, which rely on resource-constrained devices for real-time inference.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Abdul Basit , Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Certifiably robust defenses against adversarial patches for image classifiers ensure correct prediction against any changes to a constrained neighborhood of pixels. PatchCleanser arXiv:2108.09135 [cs.CV], the state-of-the-art certified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Aniruddha Saha , Shuhua Yu , Arash Norouzzadeh , Wan-Yi Lin , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi

State-of-the-art convolutional neural network models for object detection and image classification are vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial perturbations, such as patch attacks. Existing defenses have focused, implicitly or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mauricio Byrd Victorica , György Dán , Henrik Sandberg

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated rapid progress and a high level of success in object detection. However, recent evidence has highlighted their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. These attacks are calculated image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Chris Wise , Jo Plested

Adversarial patches in computer vision can be used, to fool deep neural networks and manipulate their decision-making process. One of the most prominent examples of adversarial patches are evasion attacks for object detectors. By covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jens Bayer , Stefan Becker , David Münch , Michael Arens

Adversarial patches are images designed to fool otherwise well-performing neural network-based computer vision models. Although these attacks were initially conceived of and studied digitally, in that the raw pixel values of the image were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Gavin S. Hartnett , Li Ang Zhang , Caolionn O'Connell , Andrew J. Lohn , Jair Aguirre

Adversarial patch attacks mislead neural networks by injecting adversarial pixels within a local region. Patch attacks can be highly effective in a variety of tasks and physically realizable via attachment (e.g. a sticker) to the real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ke Xu , Yao Xiao , Zhaoheng Zheng , Kaijie Cai , Ram Nevatia

Local feature extractors are the cornerstone of many computer vision tasks. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks can significantly compromise their effectiveness. This paper discusses approaches to attack sophisticated local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yu Wen Pao , Li Chang Lai , Hong-Yi Lin

The use of transformers for vision tasks has challenged the traditional dominant role of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in computer vision (CV). For image classification tasks, Vision Transformer (ViT) effectively establishes spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shihua Sun , Kenechukwu Nwodo , Shridatt Sugrim , Angelos Stavrou , Haining Wang

By adding human-imperceptible noise to clean images, the resultant adversarial examples can fool other unknown models. Features of a pixel extracted by deep neural networks (DNNs) are influenced by its surrounding regions, and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Lianli Gao , Qilong Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Xianglong Liu , Heng Tao Shen

Adversarial patch attacks pose a severe threat to deep neural networks, yet most existing approaches rely on unrealistic white-box assumptions, untargeted objectives, or produce visually conspicuous patches that limit real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Roie Kazoom , Alon Goldberg , Hodaya Cohen , Ofer Hadar

The literature on adversarial attacks in computer vision typically focuses on pixel-level perturbations. These tend to be very difficult to interpret. Recent work that manipulates the latent representations of image generators to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Stephen Casper , Max Nadeau , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Gabriel Kreiman

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized the field of computer vision like object detection with their unparalleled performance. However, existing research has shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In the physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Zijin Lin , Yue Zhao , Kai Chen , Jinwen He

Recent works showed the vulnerability of image classifiers to adversarial attacks in the digital domain. However, the majority of attacks involve adding small perturbation to an image to fool the classifier. Unfortunately, such procedures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Mikhail Pautov , Grigorii Melnikov , Edgar Kaziakhmedov , Klim Kireev , Aleksandr Petiushko

In this paper, we propose a new key-based defense focusing on both efficiency and robustness. Although the previous key-based defense seems effective in defending against adversarial examples, carefully designed adaptive attacks can bypass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Isao Echizen , Hitoshi Kiya

Adversarial attacks in deep learning models, especially for safety-critical systems, are gaining more and more attention in recent years, due to the lack of trust in the security and robustness of AI models. Yet the more primitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Abhijith Sharma , Yijun Bian , Phil Munz , Apurva Narayan

Current ship detection techniques based on remote sensing imagery primarily rely on the object detection capabilities of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial patch attacks, which can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chun Liu , Panpan Ding , Zheng Zheng , Hailong Wang , Bingqian Zhu , Tao Xu , Zhigang Han , Jiayao Wang

To operate in real-world high-stakes environments, deep learning systems have to endure noises that have been continuously thwarting their robustness. Data-end defense, which improves robustness by operations on input data instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jiakai Wang , Zixin Yin , Pengfei Hu , Aishan Liu , Renshuai Tao , Haotong Qin , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao