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We introduce the Adversarial Confusion Attack, a new class of threats against multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Unlike jailbreaks or targeted misclassification, the goal is to induce systematic disruption that makes the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jakub Hoscilowicz , Artur Janicki

Recent advancements in Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have revolutionized image synthesis and manipulation, raising significant concerns about data misappropriation and intellectual property infringement. While adversarial attacks have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zhongliang Guo , Chun Tong Lei , Lei Fang , Shuai Zhao , Yifei Qian , Jingyu Lin , Zeyu Wang , Cunjian Chen , Ognjen Arandjelović , Chun Pong Lau

Extremely large image generators offer significant transformative potential across diverse sectors. It allows users to design specific prompts to generate realistic images through some black-box APIs. However, some studies reveal that image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yu Tian , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Heming Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

The revolution in computer hardware, especially in graphics processing units and tensor processing units, has enabled significant advances in computer graphics and artificial intelligence algorithms. In addition to their many beneficial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

CAPTCHAs have long been essential tools for protecting applications from automated bots. Initially designed as simple questions to distinguish humans from bots, they have become increasingly complex to keep pace with the proliferation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ziqi Ding , Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Junchen Ding , Jieshan Chen , Yulei Sui , Yuekang Li

In recent years, the proliferation of so-called "fake news" has caused much disruptions in society and weakened the news ecosystem. Therefore, to mitigate such problems, researchers have developed state-of-the-art models to auto-detect fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Thai Le , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee

This demonstration presents Digital-Physical Adversarial Attacks (DiPA), a new class of practical adversarial attacks against pervasive camera-based authentication systems, where an attacker displays an adversarial patch directly on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Victoria Leonenkova , Ekaterina Shumitskaya , Dmitriy Vatolin , Anastasia Antsiferova

Social media networks commonly employ content moderation as a tool to limit the spread of harmful content. However, the efficacy of this strategy in limiting the delivery of harmful content to users is not well understood. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ian Goldstein , Laura Edelson , Minh-Kha Nguyen , Oana Goga , Damon McCoy , Tobias Lauinger

Participation on social media platforms has many benefits but also poses substantial threats. Users often face an unintended loss of privacy, are bombarded with mis-/disinformation, or are trapped in filter bubbles due to over-personalized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Christian von der Weth , Ashraf Abdul , Shaojing Fan , Mohan Kankanhalli

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) especially multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), has enabled it to understand text, images, videos, and other multimedia data, allowing AI systems to execute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Lehao Lin , Ke Wang , Maha Abdallah , Wei Cai

It is increasingly becoming difficult for human beings to work on their day to day life without going through the process of reverse Turing test, where the Computers tests the users to be humans or not. Almost every website and service…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Jimut Bahan Pal

With the spread of online social networks, it is more and more difficult to monitor all the user-generated content. Automating the moderation process of the inappropriate exchange content on Internet has thus become a priority task. Methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Noé Cecillon , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour , Georges Linares

To this date, CAPTCHAs have served as the first line of defense preventing unauthorized access by (malicious) bots to web-based services, while at the same time maintaining a trouble-free experience for human visitors. However, recent work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Dorjan Hitaj , Briland Hitaj , Sushil Jajodia , Luigi V. Mancini

We propose a new scheme of attack on the Microsoft's ASIRRA CAPTCHA which represents a significant shortcut to the intended attacking path, as it is not based in any advance in the state of the art on the field of image recognition. After…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-11 Carlos Javier Hernandez-Castro , Arturo Ribagorda , Yago Saez

Text classification methods have been widely investigated as a way to detect content of low credibility: fake news, social media bots, propaganda, etc. Quite accurate models (likely based on deep neural networks) help in moderating public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Piotr Przybyła , Alexander Shvets , Horacio Saggion

The rapid advancement of diffusion models and personalization techniques has made it possible to recreate individual portraits from just a few publicly available images. While such capabilities empower various creative applications, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guanyu Wang , Kailong Wang , Yihao Huang , Mingyi Zhou , Geguang Pu , Li Li

Online harms are a growing problem in digital spaces, putting user safety at risk and reducing trust in social media platforms. One of the most persistent forms of harm is hate speech. To address this, we need tools that combine the speed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Paloma Piot , Diego Sánchez , Javier Parapar

Hateful comments are prevalent on social media platforms. Although tools for automatically detecting, flagging, and blocking such false, offensive, and harmful content online have lately matured, such reactive and brute force methods alone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sougata Saha , Rohini Srihari

Facially manipulated images and videos or DeepFakes can be used maliciously to fuel misinformation or defame individuals. Therefore, detecting DeepFakes is crucial to increase the credibility of social media platforms and other media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Paarth Neekhara , Brian Dolhansky , Joanna Bitton , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Text-based password schemes have inherent security and usability problems, leading to the development of graphical password schemes. However, most of these alternate schemes are vulnerable to spyware attacks. We propose a new scheme, using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Liming Wang , Xiuling Chang , Zhongjie Ren , Haichang Gao , Xiyang Liu , Uwe Aickelin