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Connected cars are susceptible to cyberattacks. Security and safety of future vehicles highly depend on a holistic protection of automotive components, of which the time-sensitive backbone network takes a significant role. These onboard…

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In the semantic segmentation of street scenes with neural networks, the reliability of predictions is of highest interest. The assessment of neural networks by means of uncertainties is a common ansatz to prevent safety issues. As in…

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Deep neural networks (NNs) for computer vision are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., miniscule malicious changes to inputs may induce unintuitive outputs. One key approach to verify and mitigate such robustness issues is to falsify…

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Trajectory prediction using deep neural networks (DNNs) is an essential component of autonomous driving (AD) systems. However, these methods are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to serious consequences such as collisions. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yulong Cao , Danfei Xu , Xinshuo Weng , Zhuoqing Mao , Anima Anandkumar , Chaowei Xiao , Marco Pavone

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Divya Gopinath , Kaiyuan Wang , Mengshi Zhang , Corina S. Pasareanu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which may lead to catastrophe in security-critical domains. Numerous detection methods are proposed to characterize the feature uniqueness of adversarial examples, or to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ruoxi Chen , Haibo Jin , Jinyin Chen , Haibin Zheng

The ubiquity of deep neural networks (DNNs), cloud-based training, and transfer learning is giving rise to a new cybersecurity frontier in which unsecure DNNs have `structural malware' (i.e., compromised weights and activation pathways). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 N. Benjamin Erichson , Dane Taylor , Qixuan Wu , Michael W. Mahoney

In this work we address the task of observing the performance of a semantic segmentation deep neural network (DNN) during online operation, i.e., during inference, which is of high importance in safety-critical applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Marvin Klingner , Andreas Bär , Marcel Mross , Tim Fingscheidt

This paper considers the problem of helping humans exercise scalable oversight over deep neural networks (DNNs). Adversarial examples can be useful by helping to reveal weaknesses in DNNs, but they can be difficult to interpret or draw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Stephen Casper , Kaivalya Hariharan , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

One major factor impeding more widespread adoption of deep neural networks (DNNs) is their lack of robustness, which is essential for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. This has motivated much recent work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Abdullah Hamdi , Matthias Müller , Bernard Ghanem

Safety is one of the most important development goals for highly automated driving (HAD) systems. This applies in particular to the perception function driven by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). For these, large parts of the traditional safety…

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Safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicles and industrial IoT are adopting semantic communication (SemCom) systems using deep neural networks to reduce bandwidth and increase transmission speed by transmitting only task-relevant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Thanh Le , Hai Duong , ThanhVu Nguyen , Takeshi Matsumura

Learning-based autonomous driving systems are trained mostly on incident-free data, offering little guidance near safety-performance boundaries. Real crash reports contain precisely the contrastive evidence needed, but they are hard to use:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jay Patrikar , Apoorva Sharma , Sushant Veer , Boyi Li , Sebastian Scherer , Marco Pavone

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as a powerful mechanism and are being increasingly deployed in real-world safety-critical domains. Despite the widespread success, their complex architecture makes proving any formal guarantees about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Saket Dingliwal , Divyansh Pareek , Jatin Arora

When interacting in unstructured human environments, occasional robot failures are inevitable. When such failures occur, everyday people, rather than trained technicians, will be the first to respond. Existing natural language explanations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Devleena Das , Sonia Chernova

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…

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We propose a systematic analysis of deep neural networks (DNNs) based on a signal processing technique for network parameter removal, in the form of synaptic filters that identifies the fragility, robustness and antifragility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chandresh Pravin , Ivan Martino , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated superior performance over classical machine learning to support many features in safety-critical systems. Although DNNs are now widely used in such systems (e.g., self driving cars), there is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Mohammed Oualid Attaoui , Hazem Fahmy , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have had a dramatic impact on a variety of problems that were long considered very difficult, e. g., image classification and automatic language translation to name just a few. The accuracy of…

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