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We propose an adversarial attack for facial class-specific Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) methods. Existing attacks, such as the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) or the Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) method, are either fast but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Saurabh Goswami , Rajagopalan A. N

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face of expensive time and computational cost for calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Sharpness-aware Minimization (SAM) has been proposed recently to improve model generalization ability. However, SAM calculates the gradient twice in each optimization step, thereby doubling the computation costs compared to stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jiaxin Deng , Junbiao Pang , Baochang Zhang , Tian Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically plausible framework for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. However, it is a challenge to train SNNs due to their non-differentiability, efficiently. Existing gradient approximation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Changqing Xu , Ziqiang Yang , Yi Liu , Xinfang Liao , Guiqi Mo , Hao Zeng , Yintang Yang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully deployed in a variety of computer vision tasks, but they are still vulnerable to adversarial samples. Transfer-based attacks use a local model to generate adversarial samples and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jianping Zhang , Yizhan Huang , Weibin Wu , Michael R. Lyu

A hard challenge in developing practical face recognition (FR) attacks is due to the black-box nature of the target FR model, i.e., inaccessible gradient and parameter information to attackers. While recent research took an important step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zexin Li , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Juefeng Guo , Shouhong Ding , Simin Chen , Cong Liu

Deep Neural Networks are built to generalize outside of training set in mind by using techniques such as regularization, early stopping and dropout. But considerations to make them more resilient to adversarial examples are rarely taken. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Arkar Min Aung , Yousef Fadila , Radian Gondokaryono , Luis Gonzalez

Decision-based methods have shown to be effective in black-box adversarial attacks, as they can obtain satisfactory performance and only require to access the final model prediction. Gradient estimation is a critical step in black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Han Liu , Xingshuo Huang , Xiaotong Zhang , Qimai Li , Fenglong Ma , Wei Wang , Hongyang Chen , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang

Though CNNs have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples --- crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to clean images. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Cihang Xie , Zhishuai Zhang , Yuyin Zhou , Song Bai , Jianyu Wang , Zhou Ren , Alan Yuille

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to small and even imperceptible perturbations has become a central topic in deep learning research. Although several sophisticated defense mechanisms have been introduced, most were later shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Leo Schwinn , An Nguyen , René Raab , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger

The notion of adversarial attacks on image classification models based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) is introduced in this work. To classify images, deep learning models called CNNs are frequently used. However, when the networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jaydip Sen , Abhiraj Sen , Ananda Chatterjee

Efficient adversarial attack methods are critical for assessing the robustness of computer vision models. In this paper, we reconstruct the optimization objective for generating adversarial examples as "maximizing the difference between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinlei Liu , Tao Hu , Peng Yi , Weitao Han , Jichao Xie , Baolin Li

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain vulnerable to transfer-based targeted attacks, where perturbations optimized on open-source surrogate encoders can generalize to closed-source MLLMs. A key challenge for improving adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Leitao Yuan , Qinghua Mao , Daizong Liu , Kun Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yan Teng , Jing Shao , Dongrui Liu

A recent line of work focused on making adversarial training computationally efficient for deep learning models. In particular, Wong et al. (2020) showed that $\ell_\infty$-adversarial training with fast gradient sign method (FGSM) can fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Maksym Andriushchenko , Nicolas Flammarion

The black-box adversarial attack has attracted impressive attention for its practical use in the field of deep learning security. Meanwhile, it is very challenging as there is no access to the network architecture or internal weights of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yifeng Xiong , Jiadong Lin , Min Zhang , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Learning adversarial examples can be formulated as an optimization problem of maximizing the loss function with some box-constraints. However, for solving this induced optimization problem, the state-of-the-art gradient-based methods such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Wei Tao , Lei Bao , Sheng Long , Gaowei Wu , Qing Tao

Deep neural networks have achieved unprecedented success on diverse vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial noise that is imperceptible to humans. This phenomenon negatively affects their deployment in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jianping Zhang , Jen-tse Huang , Wenxuan Wang , Yichen Li , Weibin Wu , Xiaosen Wang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

The reliance on deep learning algorithms has grown significantly in recent years. Yet, these models are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which introduce visually imperceptible perturbations into testing data to induce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Rajeev Sahay , Rehana Mahfuz , Aly El Gamal

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing key roles in various artificial intelligence applications such as image classification and object recognition. However, a growing number of studies have shown that there exist adversarial examples in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hongying Liu , Zhenyu Zhou , Fanhua Shang , Xiaoyu Qi , Yuanyuan Liu , Licheng Jiao

Deep neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, vanilla adversarial examples generated under the white-box setting often exhibit low transferability across different models. Since adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zeliang Zhang , Wei Yao , Xiaosen Wang