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The performance of computer vision models are susceptible to unexpected changes in input images caused by sensor errors or extreme imaging environments, known as common corruptions (e.g. noise, blur, illumination changes). These corruptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shunxin Wang , Raymond Veldhuis , Christoph Brune , Nicola Strisciuglio

This work concerns the development of deep networks that are certifiably robust to adversarial attacks. Joint robust classification-detection was recently introduced as a certified defense mechanism, where adversarial examples are either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sina Baharlouei , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Meisam Razaviyayn , Zico Kolter

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches to training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

In this work, we investigate the phenomenon that robust image classifiers have human-recognizable features -- often referred to as interpretability -- as revealed through the input gradients of their score functions and their subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan Helland , Nathan VanHoudnos

Despite extensive research since the community learned about adversarial examples 10 years ago, we still do not know how to train high-accuracy classifiers that are guaranteed to be robust to small perturbations of their inputs. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bernd Prach , Christoph H. Lampert

Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) are becoming ubiquitous in computer vision, powering systems for diverse tasks such as object detection, image classification, segmentation, pose estimation, and motion tracking. VFMs are capitalizing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Sandeep Gupta , Roberto Passerone

Despite the high performance achieved by deep neural networks on various tasks, extensive studies have demonstrated that small tweaks in the input could fail the model predictions. This issue of deep neural networks has led to a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ming-Chang Chiu , Xuezhe Ma

Legged locomotion has recently achieved remarkable success with the progress of machine learning techniques, especially deep reinforcement learning (RL). Controllers employing neural networks have demonstrated empirical and qualitative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Fan Shi , Chong Zhang , Takahiro Miki , Joonho Lee , Marco Hutter , Stelian Coros

Current approaches to novelty or anomaly detection are based on deep neural networks. Despite their effectiveness, neural networks are also vulnerable to imperceptible deformations of the input data. This is a serious issue in critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ranya Almohsen , Shivang Patel , Donald A. Adjeroh , Gianfranco Doretto

Nearly all models for object tracking with artificial neural networks depend on appearance features extracted from a "backbone" architecture, designed for object recognition. Indeed, significant progress on object tracking has been spurred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Girik Malik , Drew Linsley , Thomas Serre , Ennio Mingolla

Robustness is a fundamental aspect for developing safe and trustworthy models, particularly when they are deployed in the open world. In this work we analyze the inherent capability of one-stage object detectors to robustly operate in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Aitor Martinez-Seras , Javier Del Ser , Aitzol Olivares-Rad , Alain Andres , Pablo Garcia-Bringas

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully crafted input samples that can cause models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. To mitigate these vulnerabilities, adversarial training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Francesco Villani , Igor Maljkovic , Dario Lazzaro , Angelo Sotgiu , Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Fabio Roli

The deep neural network is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adding imperceptible adversarial perturbations to images is enough to make them fail. Most existing research focuses on attacking image classifiers or anchor-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Improving model robustness in case of corrupted images is among the key challenges to enable robust vision systems on smart devices, such as robotic agents. Particularly, robust test-time performance is imperative for most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Elena Camuffo , Umberto Michieli , Jijoong Moon , Daehyun Kim , Mete Ozay

Recent vision foundation models can extract universal representations and show impressive abilities in various tasks. However, their application on object detection is largely overlooked, especially without fine-tuning them. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shenghao Fu , Junkai Yan , Qize Yang , Xihan Wei , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

The challenge of Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) robustness remains a critical hurdle towards deploying deep vision models. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently achieved groundbreaking results. VLM-based open-vocabulary object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Kanjar De , Meenakshi Subhash Chippa , Rajkumar Saini , Marcus Liwicki

As a core step in structure-from-motion and SLAM, robust feature detection and description under challenging scenarios such as significant viewpoint changes remain unresolved despite their ubiquity. While recent works have identified the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gonglin Chen , Tianwen Fu , Haiwei Chen , Wenbin Teng , Hanyuan Xiao , Yajie Zhao

Traditionally, an object detector is applied to every part of the scene of interest, and its accuracy and computational cost increases with higher resolution images. However, in some application domains such as remote sensing, purchasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Burak Uzkent , Christopher Yeh , Stefano Ermon

With the advancement of deep learning, object detectors (ODs) with various architectures have achieved significant success in complex scenarios like autonomous driving. Previous adversarial attacks against ODs have been focused on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ziqi Zhou , Bowen Li , Yufei Song , Zhifei Yu , Shengshan Hu , Wei Wan , Leo Yu Zhang , Dezhong Yao , Hai Jin

Mixture models are well-established learning approaches that, in computer vision, have mostly been applied to inverse or ill-defined problems. However, they are general-purpose divide-and-conquer techniques, splitting the input space into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ali Varamesh , Tinne Tuytelaars