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Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently advanced computer vision tasks significantly, an important real-world problem was overlooked: adapting to variable input resolutions. Typically, images are resized to a fixed resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu

The success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in various computer vision tasks has promoted the ever-increasing prevalence of this convolution-free network. The fact that ViT works on image patches makes it potentially relevant to the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Yingyi Chen , Xi Shen , Yahui Liu , Qinghua Tao , Johan A. K. Suykens

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving image classification method that is based on the combined use of encrypted images and the vision transformer (ViT). The proposed method allows us not only to apply images without visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zheng Qi , AprilPyone MaungMaung , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Vision Transformer (ViT)-based sparse multi-view 3D object detectors have achieved remarkable accuracy but still suffer from high inference latency due to heavy token processing. To accelerate these models, token compression has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mingqian Ji , Shanshan Zhang , Jian Yang

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

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

Recently, techniques have been developed to provably guarantee the robustness of a classifier to adversarial perturbations of bounded L_1 and L_2 magnitudes by using randomized smoothing: the robust classification is a consensus of base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

Recent studies showcase the competitive accuracy of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in relation to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), along with their remarkable robustness. However, ViTs demand a large amount of data to achieve adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sven Oehri , Nikolas Ebert , Ahmed Abdullah , Didier Stricker , Oliver Wasenmüller

The recent success of Vision Transformers is shaking the long dominance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in image recognition for a decade. Specifically, in terms of robustness on out-of-distribution samples, recent research finds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zeyu Wang , Yutong Bai , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Since the introduction of Vision Transformer (ViT), patchification has long been regarded as a de facto image tokenization approach for plain visual architectures. By compressing the spatial size of images, this approach can effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Feng Wang , Yaodong Yu , Guoyizhe Wei , Wei Shao , Yuyin Zhou , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

While adversarial training has been extensively studied for ResNet architectures and low resolution datasets like CIFAR, much less is known for ImageNet. Given the recent debate about whether transformers are more robust than convnets, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Naman D Singh , Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Verifying robustness of neural network classifiers has attracted great interests and attention due to the success of deep neural networks and their unexpected vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. Although finding minimum adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Akhilan Boopathy , Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Luca Daniel

Adversarial patch attacks pose a practical threat to deep learning models by forcing targeted misclassifications through localized perturbations, often realized in the physical world. Existing defenses typically assume prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ayushi Mehrotra , Derek Peng , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Deep learning-based malware detection systems are vulnerable to adversarial EXEmples - carefully-crafted malicious programs that evade detection with minimal perturbation. As such, the community is dedicating effort to develop mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Daniel Gibert , Luca Demetrio , Giulio Zizzo , Quan Le , Jordi Planes , Battista Biggio

Vision transformer (ViT) models exhibit substandard optimizability. In particular, they are sensitive to the choice of optimizer (AdamW vs. SGD), optimizer hyperparameters, and training schedule length. In comparison, modern convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tete Xiao , Mannat Singh , Eric Mintun , Trevor Darrell , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Self-supervised learning (SSL) with vision transformers (ViTs) has proven effective for representation learning as demonstrated by the impressive performance on various downstream tasks. Despite these successes, existing ViT-based SSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Chaitanya Devaguptapu , Sumukh Aithal , Shrinivas Ramasubramanian , Moyuru Yamada , Manohar Kaul

Vision Transformers (ViTs) take all the image patches as tokens and construct multi-head self-attention (MHSA) among them. Complete leverage of these image tokens brings redundant computations since not all the tokens are attentive in MHSA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Youwei Liang , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Pengtao Xie

Patch-based adversarial attacks introduce a perceptible but localized change to the input that induces misclassification. While progress has been made in defending against imperceptible attacks, it remains unclear how patch-based attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Christian Cosgrove , Adam Kortylewski , Chenglin Yang , Alan Yuille

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