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Rapidly growing wildfires have recently devastated societal assets, exposing a critical need for early warning systems to expedite relief efforts. Smoke detection using camera-based Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) offers a promising solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ryo Ide , Lei Yang

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their optimization is computationally demanding, and requires careful hyperparameter tuning,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Maura Pintor , Daniele Angioni , Angelo Sotgiu , Luca Demetrio , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Detecting visual relationships, i.e. <Subject, Predicate, Object> triplets, is a challenging Scene Understanding task approached in the past via linguistic priors or spatial information in a single feature branch. We introduce a new deeply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Vassilis Pitsikalis , Petros Koutras , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be susceptible to adversarial examples, leading to significant performance degradation. In black-box attack scenarios, a considerable attack performance gap between the surrogate model and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Haijing Guo , Jiafeng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Jinglun Li , Wenqiang Zhang

The transferability of adversarial examples across deep neural networks (DNNs) is the crux of many black-box attacks. Many prior efforts have been devoted to improving the transferability via increasing the diversity in inputs of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which becomes one of the most important research problems in the development of deep learning. While a lot of efforts have been made in recent years, it is of great significance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yinpeng Dong , Qi-An Fu , Xiao Yang , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Zihao Xiao , Jun Zhu

With the advancement of vision transformers (ViTs) and self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques, pre-trained large ViTs have become the new foundation models for computer vision applications. However, studies have shown that, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Weijie Zheng , Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Visual place recognition methods struggle with occlusions and partial visual overlaps. We propose a novel visual place recognition approach based on overlap prediction, called VOP, shifting from traditional reliance on global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tong Wei , Philipp Lindenberger , Jiri Matas , Daniel Barath

We consider a problem of learning the reward and policy from expert examples under unknown dynamics. Our proposed method builds on the framework of generative adversarial networks and introduces the empowerment-regularized maximum-entropy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Byron Boots , Michael C. Yip

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

Current adversarial attacks for evaluating the robustness of vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models in multi-modal tasks suffer from limited transferability, where attacks crafted for a specific model often struggle to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Peng-Fei Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Zi Huang

The existence of adversarial examples has been a mystery for years and attracted much interest. A well-known theory by \citet{ilyas2019adversarial} explains adversarial vulnerability from a data perspective by showing that one can extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ang Li , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Despite modifying only a small localized input region, adversarial patches can drastically change the prediction of computer vision models. However, prior methods either cannot perform satisfactorily under targeted attack scenarios or fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Subrat Kishore Dutta , Xiao Zhang

Transfer learning has become the de facto standard in computer vision and natural language processing, especially where labeled data is scarce. Accuracy can be significantly improved by using pre-trained models and subsequent fine-tuning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 T. S. Jayram , Vincent Marois , Tomasz Kornuta , Vincent Albouy , Emre Sevgen , Ahmet S. Ozcan

Transfer learning has emerged as a powerful methodology for adapting pre-trained deep neural networks on image recognition tasks to new domains. This process consists of taking a neural network pre-trained on a large feature-rich source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Francisco Utrera , Evan Kravitz , N. Benjamin Erichson , Rajiv Khanna , Michael W. Mahoney

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A practical adversarial attack should require as little as possible knowledge of attacked models. Current substitute attacks need pre-trained models to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mingyi Zhou , Jing Wu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Ce Zhu

Many existing adversarial attacks generate $L_p$-norm perturbations on image RGB space. Despite some achievements in transferability and attack success rate, the crafted adversarial examples are easily perceived by human eyes. Towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jianqi Chen , Hao Chen , Keyan Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Although the adoption rate of deep neural networks (DNNs) has tremendously increased in recent years, a solution for their vulnerability against adversarial examples has not yet been found. As a result, substantial research efforts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Utku Ozbulak , Esla Timothy Anzaku , Wesley De Neve , Arnout Van Messem