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Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proved to reach super-human performance in visual recognition tasks. However, CNNs can easily be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., maliciously-crafted images that force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Federico Nesti , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

Transformers have recently demonstrated strong performance in computer vision, with Vision Transformers (ViTs) leveraging self-attention to capture both low-level and high-level image features. However, standard ViTs remain computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ali El Bellaj , Mohammed-Amine Cheddadi , Rhassan Berber

Transformers are built upon multi-head scaled dot-product attention and positional encoding, which aim to learn the feature representations and token dependencies. In this work, we focus on enhancing the distinctive representation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Litao Yu , Jian Zhang

Transformer is a ubiquitous model for natural language processing and has attracted wide attentions in computer vision. The attention maps are indispensable for a transformer model to encode the dependencies among input tokens. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Jing Bai , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated impressive performance across a range of applications, including many safety-critical tasks. However, their unique architectural properties raise new challenges and opportunities in adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiani Liu , Zhiyuan Wang , Zeliang Zhang , Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Chenliang Xu

Recent advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) have been driven by transformer-based models. OCR systems are critical in numerous high-stakes domains, yet their vulnerability to adversarial attack remains largely uncharted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

Like many other tasks involving neural networks, Speech Recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However recent research has pointed out differences between attacks and defenses on ASR models compared to image models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

Adversarial training (AT) can help improve the robustness of Vision Transformers (ViT) against adversarial attacks by intentionally injecting adversarial examples into the training data. However, this way of adversarial injection inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Nian-Feng Tzeng

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

With the popularity of Transformer architectures in computer vision, the research focus has shifted towards developing computationally efficient designs. Window-based local attention is one of the major techniques being adopted in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ammarah Farooq , Muhammad Awais , Sara Ahmed , Josef Kittler

Deep learning models are intrinsically sensitive to distribution shifts in the input data. In particular, small, barely perceivable perturbations to the input data can force models to make wrong predictions with high confidence. An common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Transformer models have recently attracted much interest from computer vision researchers and have since been successfully employed for several problems traditionally addressed with convolutional neural networks. At the same time, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ricard Durall , Stanislav Frolov , Jörn Hees , Federico Raue , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Andreas Dengel , Janis Keupe

The vision transformer (ViT) has advanced to the cutting edge in the visual recognition task. Transformers are more robust than CNN, according to the latest research. ViT's self-attention mechanism, according to the claim, makes it more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Salman Rahman , Wonkwon Lee

Visual language pre-training (VLP) models have demonstrated significant success across various domains, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Addressing these adversarial vulnerabilities is crucial for enhancing security in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Dehong Kong , Siyuan Liang , Xiaopeng Zhu , Yuansheng Zhong , Wenqi Ren

Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have surpassed human-level performance on tasks such as object classification and face verification, they can easily be fooled by adversarial attacks. These attacks add a small perturbation to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rajeev Ranjan , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated outstanding Compressed Sensing (CS) performance compared to traditional, hand-crafted methods. However, they are broadly limited in terms of generalisability, inductive bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

Vision transformer (ViT) has recently shown its strong capability in achieving comparable results to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, vanilla ViT simply inherits the same architecture from the natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Quanfu Fan

Vision transformers have attracted much attention from computer vision researchers as they are not restricted to the spatial inductive bias of ConvNets. However, although Transformer-based backbones have achieved much progress on ImageNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hong-Yu Zhou , Chixiang Lu , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu