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An adversarial patch can arbitrarily manipulate image pixels within a restricted region to induce model misclassification. The threat of this localized attack has gained significant attention because the adversary can mount a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Miguel A. DelaCruz , Patricia Mae Santos , Rafael T. Navarro

Detection of military assets on the ground can be performed by applying deep learning-based object detectors on drone surveillance footage. The traditional way of hiding military assets from sight is camouflage, for example by using…

Adversarial patch attacks mislead neural networks by injecting adversarial pixels within a local region. Patch attacks can be highly effective in a variety of tasks and physically realizable via attachment (e.g. a sticker) to the real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ke Xu , Yao Xiao , Zhaoheng Zheng , Kaijie Cai , Ram Nevatia

Adversarial attacks are valuable for evaluating the robustness of deep learning models. Existing attacks are primarily conducted on the visible light spectrum (e.g., pixel-wise texture perturbation). However, attacks targeting texture-free…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Aishan Liu , Jun Guo , Jiakai Wang , Siyuan Liang , Renshuai Tao , Wenbo Zhou , Cong Liu , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Deep neural networks used for human detection are highly vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, creating safety and privacy risks in real surveillance environments. Wearable attacks offer a realistic threat model, yet existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dingkun Zhou , Patrick P. K. Chan , Hengxu Wu , Shikang Zheng , Ruiqi Huang , Yuanjie Zhao

We consider universal adversarial patches for faces -- small visual elements whose addition to a face image reliably destroys the performance of face detectors. Unlike previous work that mostly focused on the algorithmic design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Xiao Yang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Jun Zhu

The benefits of utilizing spatial context in fast object detection algorithms have been studied extensively. Detectors increase inference speed by doing a single forward pass per image which means they implicitly use contextual reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Koninika Patil , Hamed Pirsiavash

Realistic adversarial attacks on various camera-based perception tasks of autonomous vehicles have been successfully demonstrated so far. However, only a few works considered attacks on traffic light detectors. This work shows how CNNs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Svetlana Pavlitska , Jamie Robb , Nikolai Polley , Melih Yazgan , J. Marius Zöllner

Transferable adversarial attack is always in the spotlight since deep learning models have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial samples. However, existing physical attack methods do not pay enough attention on transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yu Zhang , Zhiqiang Gong , Yichuang Zhang , YongQian Li , Kangcheng Bin , Jiahao Qi , Wei Xue , Ping Zhong

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

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

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

Adversarial input detection has emerged as a prominent technique to harden Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) against adversarial attacks. Most prior works use neural network-based detectors or complex statistical analysis for adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Neural architectures based on attention such as vision transformers are revolutionizing image recognition. Their main benefit is that attention allows reasoning about all parts of a scene jointly. In this paper, we show how the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giulio Lovisotto , Nicole Finnie , Mauricio Munoz , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Jan Hendrik Metzen

The existence of real-world adversarial examples (commonly in the form of patches) poses a serious threat for the use of deep learning models in safety-critical computer vision tasks such as visual perception in autonomous driving. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Saasha Nair , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

The security of object detection systems has attracted increasing attention, especially when facing adversarial patch attacks. Since patch attacks change the pixels in a restricted area on objects, they are easy to implement in the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Nan Ji , YanFei Feng , Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu

Adversarial patches present significant challenges to the robustness of deep learning models, making the development of effective defenses become critical for real-world applications. This paper introduces DIFFender, a novel DIFfusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xingxing Wei , Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su

To assess the vulnerability of deep learning in the physical world, recent works introduce adversarial patches and apply them on different tasks. In this paper, we propose another kind of adversarial patch: the Meaningful Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Xingxing Wei , Ying Guo , Jie Yu

Higher-order adversarial attacks can directly be considered the result of a cat-and-mouse game -- an elaborate action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes. This idiom describes the enduring circular training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jens Bayer , Stefan Becker , David Münch , Michael Arens , Jürgen Beyerer