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Backdoor attacks pose serious security threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). Backdoored models make arbitrarily (targeted) incorrect predictions on inputs embedded with well-designed triggers while behaving normally on clean inputs. Many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yudong Gao , Honglong Chen , Peng Sun , Junjian Li , Anqing Zhang , Zhibo Wang

The increasing importance of both deep neural networks (DNNs) and cloud services for training them means that bad actors have more incentive and opportunity to insert backdoors to alter the behavior of trained models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

In a backdoor attack on a machine learning model, an adversary produces a model that performs well on normal inputs but outputs targeted misclassifications on inputs containing a small trigger pattern. Model compression is a widely-used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yulong Tian , Fnu Suya , Fengyuan Xu , David Evans

Skeleton Action Recognition (SAR) has attracted significant interest for its efficient representation of the human skeletal structure. Despite its advancements, recent studies have raised security concerns in SAR models, particularly their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qichen Zheng , Yi Yu , Siyuan Yang , Jun Liu , Kwok-Yan Lam , Alex Kot

Open-vocabulary object detectors (OVODs) unify vision and language to detect arbitrary object categories based on text prompts, enabling strong zero-shot generalization to novel concepts. As these models gain traction in high-stakes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ankita Raj , Chetan Arora

Recent years have witnessed the great success of deep learning algorithms in the geoscience and remote sensing realm. Nevertheless, the security and robustness of deep learning models deserve special attention when addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nikolaus Dräger , Yonghao Xu , Pedram Ghamisi

Prompt-driven Video Segmentation Foundation Models (VSFMs), such as SAM2, are increasingly used in applications including autonomous driving and digital pathology, yet their security risks remain underexplored. We study backdoor attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zongmin Zhang , Zhen Sun , Yifan Liao , Wenhan Dong , Xinlei He , Xingshuo Han , Shengmin Xu , Xinyi Huang

Large pre-trained models have achieved notable success across a range of downstream tasks. However, recent research shows that a type of adversarial attack ($\textit{i.e.,}$ backdoor attack) can manipulate the behavior of machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dongliang Guo , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Junfeng Guo , Thomas Hartvigsen , Sheng Li

Backdoor attacks are dangerous and difficult to prevent in federated learning (FL), where training data is sourced from untrusted clients over long periods of time. These difficulties arise because: (a) defenders in FL do not have access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Shuaiqi Wang , Jonathan Hayase , Giulia Fanti , Sewoong Oh

Crowd counting is a regression task that estimates the number of people in a scene image, which plays a vital role in a range of safety-critical applications, such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring and flow control. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yuhua Sun , Tailai Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Pan Zhou , Jian Lou , Zichuan Xu , Xing Di , Yu Cheng , Lichao

Federated self-supervised learning (FSSL) combines the advantages of decentralized modeling and unlabeled representation learning, serving as a cutting-edge paradigm with strong potential for scalability and privacy preservation. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiayao Wang , Yang Song , Zhendong Zhao , Jiale Zhang , Qilin Wu , Junwu Zhu , Dongfang Zhao

Backdoor attacks pose a severe threat to deep learning, yet their impact on object detection remains poorly understood compared to image classification. While attacks have been proposed, we identify critical weaknesses in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

In autonomous driving, behavior prediction is fundamental for safe motion planning, hence the security and robustness of prediction models against adversarial attacks are of paramount importance. We propose a novel adversarial backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz , Mohammad Sabokrou , Amir Rasouli

Machine Learning using neural networks has received prominent attention recently because of its success in solving a wide variety of computational tasks, in particular in the field of computer vision. However, several works have drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 C. A. Martínez-Mejía , J. Solano , J. Breier , D. Bucko , X. Hou

Federated learning, while being a promising approach for collaborative model training, is susceptible to backdoor attacks due to its decentralized nature. Backdoor attacks have shown remarkable stealthiness, as they compromise model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhengyuan Jiang , Xingyu Lyu , Shanghao Shi , Yang Xiao , Yimin Chen , Y. Thomas Hou , Wenjing Lou , Ning Wanga

Deep learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to recent backdoor attacks. A backdoored model behaves normally for inputs containing no attacker-secretly-chosen trigger and maliciously for inputs with the trigger. To date, backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Hua Ma , Yinshan Li , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , Zhi Zhang , Anmin Fu , Hyoungshick Kim , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Nepal Surya , Derek Abbott

In this paper we present the first baseline results for the task of few-shot learning of discrete embedding vectors for image recognition. Few-shot learning is a highly researched task, commonly leveraged by recognition systems that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Roei Gelbhart , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to neural networks, enabling adversaries to manipulate model outputs on specific inputs, often with devastating consequences, especially in critical applications. While backdoor attacks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhen Guo , Abhinav Kumar , Reza Tourani

Object detection as a subfield within computer vision has achieved remarkable progress, which aims to accurately identify and locate a specific object from images or videos. Such methods rely on large-scale labeled training samples for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhimeng Xin , Shiming Chen , Tianxu Wu , Yuanjie Shao , Weiping Ding , Xinge You

Due to the high cost of training, large model (LM) practitioners commonly use pretrained models downloaded from untrusted sources, which could lead to owning compromised models. In-context learning is the ability of LMs to perform multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Aitor Urbieta