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Deep learning has successfully solved a wide range of tasks in 2D vision as a dominant AI technique. Recently, deep learning on 3D point clouds is becoming increasingly popular for addressing various tasks in this field. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Hanieh Naderi , Ivan V. Bajić

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built on the assumption of treating image patches as ``visual tokens" and learn patch-to-patch attention. The patch embedding based tokenizer has a semantic gap with respect to its counterpart, the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ryan Grainger , Thomas Paniagua , Xi Song , Naresh Cuntoor , Mun Wai Lee , Tianfu Wu

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

Natural images are virtually surrounded by low-density misclassified regions that can be efficiently discovered by gradient-guided search --- enabling the generation of adversarial images. While many techniques for detecting these attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Tao Yu , Shengyuan Hu , Chuan Guo , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Multi-head self-attention is a distinctive feature extraction mechanism of vision transformers that computes pairwise relationships among all input patches, contributing significantly to their high performance. However, it is known to incur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yuki Igaue , Hiroaki Aizawa

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial attack, which is an attack that can mislead state-of-the-art classifiers into making an incorrect classification with high confidence by deliberately perturbing the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lina Wang , Rui Tang , Yawei Yue , Xingshu Chen , Wei Wang , Yi Zhu , Xuemei Zeng

Adversarial patches are physically realizable localized noise, which are able to hijack Vision Transformers (ViT) self-attention, pulling focus toward a small, high-contrast region and corrupting the class token to force confident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anadi Goyal , Chandan Karfa , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Transformers have recently shown superior performances on various vision tasks. The large, sometimes even global, receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power over their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

This paper discusses the attack feasibility of Remote Adversarial Patch (RAP) targeting face detectors. The RAP that targets face detectors is similar to the RAP that targets general object detectors, but the former has multiple issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Masora Okano , Koichi Ito , Masakatsu Nishigaki , Tetsushi Ohki

In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of MDE to adversarial patches. We propose a novel \underline{S}tealthy \underline{A}dversarial \underline{A}ttacks on \underline{M}DE (SAAM) that compromises MDE by either corrupting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Adversarial patch attacks that craft the pixels in a confined region of the input images show their powerful attack effectiveness in physical environments even with noises or deformations. Existing certified defenses towards adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Husheng Han , Kaidi Xu , Xing Hu , Xiaobing Chen , Ling Liang , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Yanzhi Wang , Yunji Chen

The adversarial patch attack against image classification models aims to inject adversarially crafted pixels within a restricted image region (i.e., a patch) for inducing model misclassification. This attack can be realized in the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Chong Xiang , Saeed Mahloujifar , Prateek Mittal

Adversarial algorithms have shown to be effective against neural networks for a variety of tasks. Some adversarial algorithms perturb all the pixels in the image minimally for the image classification task in image classification. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples, which are crafted maliciously by modifying the inputs with imperceptible perturbations to misled the network produce incorrect outputs, reveals the lack of robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Lina Wang , Xingshu Chen , Yulong Wang , Yawei Yue , Yi Zhu , Xuemei Zeng , Wei Wang

Adversarial attacks are known to succeed on classifiers, but it has been an open question whether more complex vision systems are vulnerable. In this paper, we study adversarial examples for vision and language models, which incorporate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Xiaojun Xu , Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Anna Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Dawn Song

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become a leading tool in various computer vision tasks, owing to its unique self-attention mechanism that learns visual representations explicitly through cross-patch information interactions. Despite having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jie Ma , Yalong Bai , Bineng Zhong , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

In this paper, we propose EDIT (Encoder-Decoder Image Transformer), a novel architecture designed to mitigate the attention sink phenomenon observed in Vision Transformer models. Attention sink occurs when an excessive amount of attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Wenfeng Feng , Hongxiang Wang , Jianlong Wang , Xin Zhang , Jingjing Zhao , Yueyue Liang , Xiang Chen , Duokui Han

Recent work has shown the potential of transformers for computer vision applications. An image is first partitioned into patches, which are then used as input tokens for the attention mechanism. Due to the expensive quadratic cost of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Shelly Sheynin , Sagie Benaim , Adam Polyak , Lior Wolf

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become a dominant architecture in computer vision, yet their prediction process remains difficult to interpret because information is propagated through complex interactions across layers and attention heads.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sehyeong Jo , Gangjae Jang , Haesol Park

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to train robust Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, AT creates an inherent trade-off between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness, which is commonly attributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu