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Object detectors have emerged as an indispensable module in modern computer vision systems. In this work, we propose DPatch -- a black-box adversarial-patch-based attack towards mainstream object detectors (i.e. Faster R-CNN and YOLO).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Xin Liu , Huanrui Yang , Ziwei Liu , Linghao Song , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) increasingly use DNN-based object detection models in vision-based perception. Correct detection and classification of obstacles is critical to ensure safe, trustworthy driving decisions. Adversarial patches aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jaden Mu

DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses great security concerns for security-critical systems. In this paper, a novel adaptive-patch-based physical attack (AP-PA) framework is proposed, which aims to generate adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jiawei Lian , Shaohui Mei , Shun Zhang , Mingyang Ma

Although infrared pedestrian detectors have been widely deployed in visual perception tasks, their vulnerability to physical adversarial attacks is becoming increasingly apparent. Existing physical attack methods predominantly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chengyin Hu , Yikun Guo , Yuxian Dong , Qike Zhang , Kalibinuer Tiliwalidi , Yiwei Wei , Haitao Shi , Jiujiang Guo , Jiahuan Long , Xiang Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, yet universal and transferable attacks remain underexplored, as most existing patches overfit to a single model and fail in black-box settings. To address this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hui Lu , Yi Yu , Yiming Yang , Chenyu Yi , Qixin Zhang , Bingquan Shen , Alex C. Kot , Xudong Jiang

Deep learning drives major advances in autonomous driving (AD), where object detectors are central to perception. However, adversarial attacks pose significant threats to the reliability and safety of these systems, with physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihui Zhu , Ziqi Zhou , Yichen Wang , Lulu Xue , Minghui Li , Shengshan Hu

Adversarial patch attacks present a significant threat to real-world object detectors due to their practical feasibility. Existing defense methods, which rely on attack data or prior knowledge, struggle to effectively address a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lihua Jing , Rui Wang , Wenqi Ren , Xin Dong , Cong Zou

Object detection is a crucial task in autonomous driving. While existing research has proposed various attacks on object detection, such as those using adversarial patches or stickers, the exploration of projection attacks on 3D surfaces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ce Zhou , Qiben Yan , Sijia Liu

LiDARs play a critical role in Autonomous Vehicles' (AVs) perception and their safe operations. Recent works have demonstrated that it is possible to spoof LiDAR return signals to elicit fake objects. In this work we demonstrate how the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhongyuan Hau , Kenneth T. Co , Soteris Demetriou , Emil C. Lupu

We consider outdoor optical access points (OAPs), which, enabled by recent advances in metasurface technology, have attracted growing interest. While OAPs promise high data rates and strong physical-layer security, practical deployments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Meysam Ghanbari , Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Rula Ammuri , Mazen Hasna , Khalid Qaraqe

In the field of remote sensing, we often utilize oriented bounding boxes (OBB) to bound the objects. This approach significantly reduces the overlap among dense detection boxes and minimizes the inclusion of background content within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Jianghu Shen , Xiaojun Wu

Object detection is a challenging task in remote sensing because objects only occupy a few pixels in the images, and the models are required to simultaneously learn object locations and detection. Even though the established approaches well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang

Searching for small objects in large images is a task that is both challenging for current deep learning systems and important in numerous real-world applications, such as remote sensing and medical imaging. Thorough scanning of very large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Nathan Drenkow , Philippe Burlina , Neil Fendley , Onyekachi Odoemene , Jared Markowitz

Adversarial attacks against deep learning-based object detectors (ODs) have been studied extensively in the past few years. These attacks cause the model to make incorrect predictions by placing a patch containing an adversarial pattern on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Avishag Shapira , Ron Bitton , Dan Avraham , Alon Zolfi , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Recent object detectors have achieved impressive accuracy in identifying objects seen during training. However, real-world deployment often introduces novel and unexpected objects, referred to as out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhenzhen Liu , Khanh-Huyen Bui , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao , Dung D. Le

We introduce OPtical ADversarial attack (OPAD). OPAD is an adversarial attack in the physical space aiming to fool image classifiers without physically touching the objects (e.g., moving or painting the objects). The principle of OPAD is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Alex M. Sherman , Stanley H. Chan

Deep learning-based object detection has become ubiquitous in the last decade due to its high accuracy in many real-world applications. With this growing trend, these models are interested in being attacked by adversaries, with most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Pham Phuc , Son Vuong , Khang Nguyen , Tuan Dang

Current mainstream object detection methods for large aerial images usually divide large images into patches and then exhaustively detect the objects of interest on all patches, no matter whether there exist objects or not. This paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xingxing Xie , Gong Cheng , Qingyang Li , Shicheng Miao , Ke Li , Junwei Han

With the advancement of deep learning, object detectors (ODs) with various architectures have achieved significant success in complex scenarios like autonomous driving. Previous adversarial attacks against ODs have been focused on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ziqi Zhou , Bowen Li , Yufei Song , Zhifei Yu , Shengshan Hu , Wei Wan , Leo Yu Zhang , Dezhong Yao , Hai Jin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become essential for processing the vast amounts of aerial imagery collected using earth-observing satellite platforms. However, DNNs are vulnerable towards adversarial examples, and it is expected that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Andrew Du , Bo Chen , Tat-Jun Chin , Yee Wei Law , Michele Sasdelli , Ramesh Rajasegaran , Dillon Campbell