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Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated exemplary performance on a variety of vision tasks and are being used as an alternative to CNNs. Their design is based on a self-attention mechanism that processes images as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Aniruddha Saha , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have a radically different architecture with significantly less inductive bias than Convolutional Neural Networks. Along with the improvement in performance, security and robustness of ViTs are also of great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Khoa D. Doan , Yingjie Lao , Peng Yang , Ping Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved record-breaking performance in various visual tasks. However, concerns about their robustness against backdoor attacks have grown. Backdoor attacks involve associating a specific trigger with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Deng Siqin , Zhou Xiaoyi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have outperformed traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) across various computer vision tasks. However, akin to CNN, ViTs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary embeds the backdoor into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ji Guo , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Guoming Lu

Vision transformers (ViTs) process input images as sequences of patches via self-attention; a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This makes it interesting to study the adversarial feature space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) have become a dominant component due to their exceptional performance when fine-tuned for downstream tasks. However, the presence of backdoors within PVMs poses significant threats. Unfortunately, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Aishan Liu , Xinwei Zhang , Yisong Xiao , Yuguang Zhou , Siyuan Liang , Jiakai Wang , Xianglong Liu , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao

The increasing reliance on machine learning systems has made their security a critical concern. Evasion attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the decision-making processes of AI systems, potentially causing security breaches or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kasper Cools , Clara Maathuis , Alexander M. van Oers , Claudia S. Hübner , Nikos Deligiannis , Marijke Vandewal , Geert De Cubber

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across vision tasks, yet recent studies show they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing patch-wise attacks typically assume a single fixed trigger location during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Dazhuang Liu , Yanqi Qiao , Rui Wang , Kaitai Liang , Georgios Smaragdakis

Security of modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is under severe scrutiny as the deployment of these models become widespread in many intelligence-based applications. Most recently, DNNs are attacked through Trojan which can effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan

Recent studies have revealed that vision transformers (ViTs) face similar security risks from adversarial attacks as deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, directly applying attack methodology on CNNs to ViTs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chao Zhou , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful architectures in medical image analysis, excelling in tasks such as disease detection, segmentation, and classification. However, their reliance on large, attention-driven models makes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Banafsheh Saber Latibari , Najmeh Nazari , Hossein Sayadi , Houman Homayoun , Abhijit Mahalanobis

Vision transformers (ViTs) have significantly changed the computer vision landscape and have periodically exhibited superior performance in vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although the jury is still out on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Ariel N. Lee , Sarah Adel Bargal , Janavi Kasera , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko , Nataniel Ruiz

This paper investigates how Backdoor Attacks are represented within Vision Transformers (ViTs). By assuming knowledge of the trigger, we identify a specific ``trigger direction'' in the model's activations that corresponds to the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sengim Karayalcin , Marina Krcek , Pin-Yu Chen , Stjepan Picek

Recent advances in Vision Transformer (ViT) have demonstrated its impressive performance in image classification, which makes it a promising alternative to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Unlike CNNs, ViT represents an input image as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp , Yao Qin

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently set off a new wave in neural architecture design thanks to their record-breaking performance in various vision tasks. In parallel, to fulfill the goal of deploying ViTs into real-world vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Shunyao Zhang , Shang Wu , Cheng Wan , Yingyan Celine Lin

Vision Transformers (ViT) are competing to replace Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for various computer vision tasks in medical imaging such as classification and segmentation. While the vulnerability of CNNs to adversarial attacks is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Faris Almalik , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

In this work we demonstrate the vulnerability of vision transformers (ViTs) to gradient-based inversion attacks. During this attack, the original data batch is reconstructed given model weights and the corresponding gradients. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Holger Roth , Wenqi Li , Jan Kautz , Daguang Xu , Pavlo Molchanov

The widespread adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) elevates supply-chain risk on third-party model hubs, where an adversary can implant backdoors into released checkpoints. Existing ViT backdoor attacks largely rely on poisoned-data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaozuo Shen , Yifei Cai , Rui Ning , Chunsheng Xin , Hongyi Wu

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

The Vision Transformer (ViT) leverages the Transformer's encoder to capture global information by dividing images into patches and achieves superior performance across various computer vision tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Tianxiao Zhang , Wenju Xu , Bo Luo , Guanghui Wang
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