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Physical adversarial attacks pose a significant practical threat as it deceives deep learning systems operating in the real world by producing prominent and maliciously designed physical perturbations. Emphasizing the evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Amira Guesmi , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Muhammad Shafique , Ihsen Alouani

In the course of the past few years, diffusion models (DMs) have reached an unprecedented level of visual quality. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the detection of DM-generated images, which is critical to prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jonas Ricker , Simon Damm , Thorsten Holz , Asja Fischer

Neural Networks are infamously sensitive to small perturbations in their inputs, making them vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This project evaluates the performance of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) as a purification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Lars Lien Ankile , Anna Midgley , Sebastian Weisshaar

Deep learning based image recognition systems have been widely deployed on mobile devices in today's world. In recent studies, however, deep learning models are shown vulnerable to adversarial examples. One variant of adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao

Adversarial attacks induce misclassification by introducing subtle perturbations. Recently, diffusion models are applied to the image classifiers to improve adversarial robustness through adversarial training or by purifying adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yujie Li , Yanbin Wang , Haitao Xu , Bin Liu , Jianguo Sun , Zhenhao Guo , Wenrui Ma

Adversarial attacks on deep learning models have received increased attention in recent years. Work in this area has mostly focused on gradient-based techniques, so-called 'white-box' attacks, where the attacker has access to the targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Raz Lapid , Eylon Mizrahi , Moshe Sipper

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely and successfully used in Object Detection, e.g. Faster RCNN, YOLO, CenterNet. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Shudeng Wu , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

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

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiring modifications during inference. Unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

This paper presents a novel reconstruction method that leverages Diffusion Models to protect machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks, all without requiring any modifications to the classifiers themselves. The susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hondamunige Prasanna Silva , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

Over the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in creating synthetic media, mainly thanks to the development of powerful methods based on generative adversarial networks (GAN). Very recently, methods based on diffusion models (DM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giada Zingarini , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

The recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized the generation of realistic and complex images. However, these models also introduce potential safety hazards, such as producing harmful content and infringing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yimeng Zhang , Jinghan Jia , Xin Chen , Aochuan Chen , Yihua Zhang , Jiancheng Liu , Ke Ding , Sijia Liu

Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks on object detectors has attracted increasing interest. However, we identify that existing defense evaluations lack a unified and comprehensive framework, resulting in inconsistent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Junhao Zheng , Jiahao Sun , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Chen Ma , Chong Zhang , Cong Wang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are highly sensitive to imperceptible malicious perturbations, known as adversarial attacks. Following the discovery of this vulnerability in real-world imaging and vision applications, the associated safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tsachi Blau , Roy Ganz , Bahjat Kawar , Alex Bronstein , Michael Elad

Diffusion models are known for generating high-quality images, causing serious security concerns. To combat this, most efforts rely on deep neural networks (e.g., CNNs and Transformers), while largely overlooking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mengxin Fu , Yuezun Li

Advancements in diffusion models have enabled effortless image editing via text prompts, raising concerns about image security. Attackers with access to user images can exploit these tools for malicious edits. Recent defenses attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Aniruddha Bala , Rohit Chowdhury , Rohan Jaiswal , Siddharth Roheda

In recent years, some researchers have applied diffusion models to multivariate time series anomaly detection. The partial diffusion strategy, which depends on the diffusion steps, is commonly used for anomaly detection in these models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Guangqiang Wu , Fu Zhang

Diffusion models (DMs) are one of the most widely used generative models for producing high quality images. However, a flurry of recent papers points out that DMs are least private forms of image generators, by extracting a significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Michael F. Liu , Saiyue Lyu , Margarita Vinaroz , Mijung Park

Diffusion models (DM) have become state-of-the-art generative models because of their capability to generate high-quality images from noises without adversarial training. However, they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks as reported by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shengwei An , Sheng-Yen Chou , Kaiyuan Zhang , Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Guangyu Shen , Siyuan Cheng , Shiqing Ma , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Xiangyu Zhang