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Traditional adversarial attacks typically aim to alter the predicted labels of input images by generating perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye. However, these approaches often lack explainability. Moreover, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Akram Heidarizadeh , Connor Hatfield , Lorenzo Lazzarotto , HanQin Cai , George Atia

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks (DNNs). In this paper, we make the case that sparse representations of the input data are a crucial tool for combating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-16 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

Adversarial input image perturbation attacks have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning algorithms, particularly in image classification setting. These attacks involve subtle perturbations to input images that cause neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anthony Etim , Jakub Szefer

Sparse adversarial attacks fool deep neural networks (DNNs) through minimal pixel perturbations, often regularized by the $\ell_0$ norm. Recent efforts have replaced this norm with a structural sparsity regularizer, such as the nuclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shpresim Sadiku , Moritz Wagner , Sebastian Pokutta

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji

The generation of feasible adversarial examples is necessary for properly assessing models that work in constrained feature space. However, it remains a challenging task to enforce constraints into attacks that were designed for computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Thibault Simonetto , Salijona Dyrmishi , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Machine learning models have demonstrated vulnerability to adversarial attacks, more specifically misclassification of adversarial examples. In this paper, we propose a one-off and attack-agnostic Feature Manipulation (FM)-Defense to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Shuo Wang , Tianle Chen , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks has been widely demonstrated (e.g., adversarial example attacks). Traditional attacks perform unstructured pixel-wise perturbation to fool the classifier. An alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen , Tianle Chen

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., images that are maliciously perturbed to fool the model. Generating adversarial examples has been mostly limited to finding small perturbations that maximize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hossein Hosseini , Radha Poovendran

Adversarial attacks are often considered as threats to the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Various defending techniques have been developed to mitigate the potential negative impact of adversarial attacks against task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jianzhang Zheng , Fan Yang , Hao Shen , Xuan Tang , Mingsong Chen , Liang Song , Xian Wei

Neural networks are now actively being used for computer vision tasks in security critical areas such as robotics, face recognition, autonomous vehicles yet their safety is under question after the discovery of adversarial attacks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Kostiantyn Khabarlak , Larysa Koriashkina

The advent of local continuous image function (LIIF) has garnered significant attention for arbitrary-scale super-resolution (SR) techniques. However, while the vulnerabilities of fixed-scale SR have been assessed, the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yihao Huang , Xin Luo , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Xiaojun Jia , Weikai Miao , Geguang Pu , Yang Liu

Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jinghui Chen , Dongruo Zhou , Jinfeng Yi , Quanquan Gu

Adversarial perturbations of normal images are usually imperceptible to humans, but they can seriously confuse state-of-the-art machine learning models. What makes them so special in the eyes of image classifiers? In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yang Song , Taesup Kim , Sebastian Nowozin , Stefano Ermon , Nate Kushman

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Adversarial attacks that generate small L_p-norm perturbations to mislead classifiers have limited success in black-box settings and with unseen classifiers. These attacks are also not robust to defenses that use denoising filters and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Andrea Cavallaro

Modern object detectors are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which may bring risks to real-world applications. The sparse attack is an important task which, compared with the popular adversarial perturbation on the whole image, needs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yichi Zhang , Zijian Zhu , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Shibao Zheng , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Deep Learning based AI systems have shown great promise in various domains such as vision, audio, autonomous systems (vehicles, drones), etc. Recent research on neural networks has shown the susceptibility of deep networks to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Sambuddha Saha , Aashish Kumar , Pratyush Sahay , George Jose , Srinivas Kruthiventi , Harikrishna Muralidhara

Motivated by previous observations that the usually applied $L_p$ norms ($p=1,2,\infty$) do not capture the perceptual quality of adversarial examples in image classification, we propose to replace these norms with the structural similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Andras Gyorgy

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer