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Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Adversarial training injects such examples into training data to increase robustness. To scale this technique to large datasets, perturbations are crafted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-28 Florian Tramèr , Alexey Kurakin , Nicolas Papernot , Ian Goodfellow , Dan Boneh , Patrick McDaniel

Adversarial patches in computer vision can be used, to fool deep neural networks and manipulate their decision-making process. One of the most prominent examples of adversarial patches are evasion attacks for object detectors. By covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jens Bayer , Stefan Becker , David Münch , Michael Arens

We present an efficient approach for Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with hierarchical Vision Transformers (ViTs), allowing the hierarchical ViTs to discard masked patches and operate only on the visible ones. Our approach consists of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki

We study adversarial examples in a black-box setting where the adversary only has API access to the target model and each query is expensive. Prior work on black-box adversarial examples follows one of two main strategies: (1) transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fnu Suya , Jianfeng Chi , David Evans , Yuan Tian

Advances in deep learning are re-defining how visual data is processed and understand by the machines. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated prominent performance in computer vision related tasks. However, their performance…

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- minor perturbations added to a model's input which cause the model to output an incorrect prediction. We introduce a new method for improving the efficacy of adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Chris Miller , Soroush Vosoughi

Adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks have been widely studied. One significant feature that makes such attacks particularly powerful is transferability, where the adversarial examples generated from one model can be effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Renzhi Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Cong Tian , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yang Liu

Robust object detection is critical for autonomous driving and mobile robotics, where accurate detection of vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles is essential for ensuring safety. Despite the advancements in object detection transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Amirhossein Nazeri , Chunheng Zhao , Pierluigi Pisu

Vision transformers (ViTs) achieve remarkable performance on large datasets, but tend to perform worse than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when trained from scratch on smaller datasets, possibly due to a lack of local inductive bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ibrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Senthilkumar S. Kathiresan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

In this work we propose Energy Attack, a transfer-based black-box $L_\infty$-adversarial attack. The attack is parameter-free and does not require gradient approximation. In particular, we first obtain white-box adversarial perturbations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Ruoxi Shi , Borui Yang , Yangzhou Jiang , Chenglong Zhao , Bingbing Ni

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, comparable to state-of-the-art neural networks. Yet, this new type of deep neural network architecture is vulnerable to adversarial attacks limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

We propose an adaptation to the training of Vision Transformers (ViTs) that allows for an explicit modeling of objects during the attention computation. This is achieved by adding a new branch to selected attention layers that computes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Vivek Trivedy , Amani Almalki , Longin Jan Latecki

Constructing adversarial examples in a black-box threat model injures the original images by introducing visual distortion. In this paper, we propose a novel black-box attack approach that can directly minimize the induced distortion by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Nannan Li , Zhenzhong Chen

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are increasingly deployed to offer advanced capabilities on inputs comprising both text and images. While prior research has shown that adversarial attacks can transfer from open-source to proprietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kai Hu , Weichen Yu , Li Zhang , Alexander Robey , Andy Zou , Chengming Xu , Haoqi Hu , Matt Fredrikson

Adversarial examples mislead deep neural networks with imperceptible perturbations and have brought significant threats to deep learning. An important aspect is their transferability, which refers to their ability to deceive other models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kunyu Wang , Xuanran He , Wenxuan Wang , Xiaosen Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision, yet their self-attention mechanism lacks explicit spatial inductive biases, leading to suboptimal performance on spatially-structured tasks. Existing approaches introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

Humans possess remarkable ability to accurately classify new, unseen images after being exposed to only a few examples. Such ability stems from their capacity to identify common features shared between new and previously seen images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weihao Jiang , Chang Liu , Kun He

In this study, we delve into the robustness of neural network-based LiDAR point cloud tracking models under adversarial attacks, a critical aspect often overlooked in favor of performance enhancement. These models, despite incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shengjing Tian , Xiantong Zhao , Yuhao Bian , Yinan Han , Bin Liu

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

Utilizing well-trained representations in transfer learning often results in superior performance and faster convergence compared to training from scratch. However, even if such good representations are transferred, a model can easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 SeokHyun Seo , Jinwoo Hong , JungWoo Chae , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang