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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advancement, however, they are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the most widely used technique for improving adversarial robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

The study on improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples grows rapidly in recent years. Among them, adversarial training is the most promising one, which flattens the input loss landscape (loss change with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Dongxian Wu , Shu-tao Xia , Yisen Wang

Given their substantial success in addressing a wide range of computer vision challenges, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are increasingly being used in smart home applications, with many of these applications relying on the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Utku Ozbulak , Baptist Vandersmissen , Azarakhsh Jalalvand , Ivo Couckuyt , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve

We introduce Evenly Cascaded convolutional Network (ECN), a neural network taking inspiration from the cascade algorithm of wavelet analysis. ECN employs two feature streams - a low-level and high-level steam. At each layer these streams…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Chengxi Ye , Chinmaya Devaraj , Michael Maynord , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Deep neural network (DNN) accelerators received considerable attention in recent years due to the potential to save energy compared to mainstream hardware. Low-voltage operation of DNN accelerators allows to further reduce energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 David Stutz , Nandhini Chandramoorthy , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Recently, adversarial attacks can be applied to the physical world, causing practical issues to various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) powered applications. Most existing physical adversarial attack defense works only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Zirui Xu , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen

Recent studies have shown that Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks on the graph structure. Although multiple works have been proposed to improve their robustness against such structural adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Qibiao Peng , Yang Liu , Zibin Zheng , Carl Yang

The weights of neural networks (NNs) have recently gained prominence as a new data modality in machine learning, with applications ranging from accuracy and hyperparameter prediction to representation learning or weight generation. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Léo Meynent , Ivan Melev , Konstantin Schürholt , Göran Kauermann , Damian Borth

We show that combining human prior knowledge with end-to-end learning can improve the robustness of deep neural networks by introducing a part-based model for object classification. We believe that the richer form of annotation helps guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Chawin Sitawarin , Kornrapat Pongmala , Yizheng Chen , Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

Neural Networks are currently one of the most widely deployed machine learning algorithms. In particular, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are gaining popularity and are evaluated for deployment in safety critical applications such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Giulio Gambardella , Johannes Kappauf , Michaela Blott , Christoph Doehring , Martin Kumm , Peter Zipf , Kees Vissers

Modern neural network modules which can significantly enhance the learning power usually add too much computational complexity to the original neural networks. In this paper, we pursue very efficient neural network modules which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Sheng Chen , Xu Wang , Chao Chen , Yifan Lu , Xijin Zhang , Linfu Wen

In this paper, we first identify activation shift, a simple but remarkable phenomenon in a neural network in which the preactivation value of a neuron has non-zero mean that depends on the angle between the weight vector of the neuron and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Takuro Kutsuna

The new wave of adversarial attacks that utilize gradient-related vulnerabilities in neural network-based classifiers makes Network Intrusion Detection Systems more open to such threats. Although state-of-the-art adversarial training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hira Nasir , Eiman Javed , Balawal Shabir , Zunera Jalil , Ahmad Mohsin

This paper aims to design robust Edge Intelligence using semantic communication for time-critical IoT applications. We systematically analyze the effect of image DCT coefficients on inference accuracy and propose the channel-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Andrea Cavagna , Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

While deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, considerably few efforts have been paid to construct robust deep tracking algorithms against adversarial attacks. Current studies on adversarial attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Shuai Jia , Chao Ma , Yibing Song , Xiaokang Yang

Standard Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be easily fooled by images with small quasi-imperceptible artificial perturbations. As alternatives to CNNs, the recently proposed Capsule Networks (CapsNets) are shown to be more robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jindong Gu , Baoyuan Wu , Volker Tresp

Recent work has shown deep neural networks (DNNs) to be highly susceptible to well-designed, small perturbations at the input layer, or so-called adversarial examples. Taking images as an example, such distortions are often imperceptible,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Shixiang Gu , Luca Rigazio

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is an effective method for improving generalization ability by regularizing loss sharpness. In this paper, we explore SAM in the context of adversarial robustness. We find that using only SAM can achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zeming Wei , Jingyu Zhu , Yihao Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have begun to permeate all corners of electronic society (from voice recognition to scene generation) due to their high accuracy and machine efficiency per operation. At their core, CNN computations are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Kartik Hegde , Jiyong Yu , Rohit Agrawal , Mengjia Yan , Michael Pellauer , Christopher W. Fletcher