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LiDAR-driven 3D sensing allows new generations of vehicles to achieve advanced levels of situation awareness. However, recent works have demonstrated that physical adversaries can spoof LiDAR return signals and deceive 3D object detectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhongyuan Hau , Soteris Demetriou , Luis Muñoz-González , Emil C. Lupu

Our study assesses the adversarial robustness of LiDAR-camera fusion models in 3D object detection. We introduce an attack technique that, by simply adding a limited number of physically constrained adversarial points above a car, can make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Bo Yang , Xiaoyu Ji , Zizhi Jin , Yushi Cheng , Wenyuan Xu

Adversarial robustness in LiDAR-based 3D object detection is a critical research area due to its widespread application in real-world scenarios. While many digital attacks manipulate point clouds or meshes, they often lack physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Luo Cheng , Hanwei Zhang , Lijun Zhang , Holger Hermanns

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

Detecting objects such as cars and pedestrians in 3D plays an indispensable role in autonomous driving. Existing approaches largely rely on expensive LiDAR sensors for accurate depth information. While recently pseudo-LiDAR has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yurong You , Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Divyansh Garg , Geoff Pleiss , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on LiDAR sensors for environmental perception and decision-making in driving scenarios. However, ensuring the safety and reliability of AVs in complex environments remains a pressing challenge. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Shijun Zheng , Weiquan Liu , Yu Guo , Yu Zang , Siqi Shen , Cheng Wang

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is an indispensable sensor for precise long- and wide-range 3D sensing, which directly benefited the recent rapid deployment of autonomous driving (AD). Meanwhile, such a safety-critical application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Takami Sato , Yuki Hayakawa , Ryo Suzuki , Yohsuke Shiiki , Kentaro Yoshioka , Qi Alfred Chen

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving systems. However, LiDAR point clouds may appear to have sparsity, uneven distribution, and incomplete structures, significantly limiting the detection performance. In road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Wanjing Zhang , Chenxing Wang

LiDAR-based 3D object detectors are fundamental to autonomous driving, where failing to detect objects poses severe safety risks. Developing effective 3D adversarial attacks is essential for thoroughly testing these detection systems and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Bing Li , Wuqi Wang , Yanan Zhang , Jingzheng Li , Haigen Min , Wei Feng , Xingyu Zhao , Jie Zhang , Qing Guo

Recent work in adversarial machine learning started to focus on the visual perception in autonomous driving and studied Adversarial Examples (AEs) for object detection models. However, in such visual perception pipeline the detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yunhan Jia , Yantao Lu , Junjie Shen , Qi Alfred Chen , Zhenyu Zhong , Tao Wei

We present a simple and flexible object detection framework optimized for autonomous driving. Building on the observation that point clouds in this application are extremely sparse, we propose a practical pillar-based approach to fix the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yue Wang , Alireza Fathi , Abhijit Kundu , David Ross , Caroline Pantofaru , Thomas Funkhouser , Justin Solomon

Object detection in autonomous driving applications implies that the detection and tracking of semantic objects are commonly native to urban driving environments, as pedestrians and vehicles. One of the major challenges in state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 G. Melotti , W. Lu , P. Conde , D. Zhao , A. Asvadi , N. Gonçalves , C. Premebida

Adversarial robustness of BEV 3D object detectors is critical for autonomous driving (AD). Existing invasive attacks require altering the target vehicle itself (e.g. attaching patches), making them unrealistic and impractical for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aixuan Li , Mochu Xiang , Bosen Hou , Zhexiong Wan , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Autonomous driving is regarded as one of the most promising remedies to shield human beings from severe crashes. To this end, 3D object detection serves as the core basis of perception stack especially for the sake of path planning, motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Rui Qian , Xin Lai , Xirong Li

Autonomous vehicles rely on LiDAR based perception to support safety critical control functions such as adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking. While previous research has shown that LiDAR perception can be manipulated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Daniyal Ganiuly , Nurzhau Bolatbek , Assel Smaiyl

LiDAR sensors are used widely in Autonomous Vehicles for better perceiving the environment which enables safer driving decisions. Recent work has demonstrated serious LiDAR spoofing attacks with alarming consequences. In particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Chengzeng You , Zhongyuan Hau , Soteris Demetriou

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is widely used in safety-critical systems. However, these systems remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks that embed hidden malicious behaviors during training. A key limitation of existing backdoor attacks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Saket S. Chaturvedi , Gaurav Bagwe , Lan Zhang , Pan He , Xiaoyong Yuan

In autonomous driving, the combination of AI and vehicular technology offers great potential. However, this amalgamation comes with vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks. This survey focuses on the intersection of Adversarial Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Junae Kim , Amardeep Kaur

Deep learning models have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks with visually imperceptible perturbations. Even this poses a serious security challenge for the localization of self-driving cars, there has been very little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yizhen Lao , Yu Zhang , Ziting Wang , Chengbo Wang , Yifei Xue , Wanpeng Shao

Recent advances in foundation models have opened up new possibilities for enhancing 3D perception. In particular, DepthAnything offers dense and reliable geometric priors from monocular RGB images, which can complement sparse LiDAR data in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujian Mo , Yan Wu , Junqiao Zhao , Jijun Wang , Yinghao Hu , Jun Yan