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Image attribution -- matching an image back to a trusted source -- is an emerging tool in the fight against online misinformation. Deep visual fingerprinting models have recently been explored for this purpose. However, they are not robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Maksym Andriushchenko , Xiaoyang Rebecca Li , Geoffrey Oxholm , Thomas Gittings , Tu Bui , Nicolas Flammarion , John Collomosse

For many computer vision applications such as image captioning, visual question answering, and person search, learning discriminative feature representations at both image and text level is an essential yet challenging problem. Its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Xiang Xu , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Transferable adversarial images raise critical security concerns for computer vision systems in real-world, black-box attack scenarios. Although many transfer attacks have been proposed, existing research lacks a systematic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhengyu Zhao , Hanwei Zhang , Renjue Li , Ronan Sicre , Laurent Amsaleg , Michael Backes , Qi Li , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

AI systems can take harmful actions and are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. We present an approach, inspired by recent advances in representation engineering, that interrupts the models as they respond with harmful outputs with…

We consider a wireless communication system, where a transmitter sends signals to a receiver with different modulation types while the receiver classifies the modulation types of the received signals using its deep learning-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Kemal Davaslioglu , Sennur Ulukus

Unrestricted adversarial attacks typically manipulate the semantic content of an image (e.g., color or texture) to create adversarial examples that are both effective and photorealistic, demonstrating their ability to deceive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zhaoyu Chen , Bo Li , Shuang Wu , Kaixun Jiang , Shouhong Ding , Wenqiang Zhang

Beyond achieving high performance across many vision tasks, multimodal models are expected to be robust to single-source faults due to the availability of redundant information between modalities. In this paper, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Karren Yang , Wan-Yi Lin , Manash Barman , Filipe Condessa , Zico Kolter

Machine learning classifiers are known to be vulnerable to inputs maliciously constructed by adversaries to force misclassification. Such adversarial examples have been extensively studied in the context of computer vision applications. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Sandy Huang , Nicolas Papernot , Ian Goodfellow , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel

Fundamental questions remain about when and why adversarial examples arise in neural networks, with competing views characterising them either as artifacts of the irregularities in the decision landscape or as products of sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Edward Stevinson , Lucas Prieto , Melih Barsbey , Tolga Birdal

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) integrate vision and text to power applications, but this integration introduces new vulnerabilities. We study Image-based Prompt Injection (IPI), a black-box attack in which adversarial instructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Neha Nagaraja , Lan Zhang , Zhilong Wang , Bo Zhang , Pawan Patil

For text enrollment-based open-vocabulary keyword spotting (KWS), acoustic and text embeddings are typically compared at either the phoneme or utterance level. To facilitate this, we optimize acoustic and text encoders using deep metric…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Youngmoon Jung , Yong-Hyeok Lee , Myunghun Jung , Jaeyoung Roh , Chang Woo Han , Hoon-Young Cho

Deep reinforcement learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can decrease a victim's cumulative expected reward by manipulating the victim's observations. Despite the efficiency of previous optimization-based methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 You Qiaoben , Chengyang Ying , Xinning Zhou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Recent work has shown the possibility of adversarial attacks on automatic speechrecognition (ASR) systems. However, in the vast majority of work in this area, theattacks have been executed only in the digital space, or have involved short…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Joseph Szurley , J. Zico Kolter

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which bridge the gap between audio-visual and natural language processing, achieve state-of-the-art performance on several audio-visual tasks. Despite the superior performance of MLLMs, the scarcity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jinming Wen , Xinyi Wu , Shuai Zhao , Yanhao Jia , Yuwen Li

With the rapid advancement of multimodal learning, pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable capacities in bridging the gap between visual and language modalities. However, these models remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiaming Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Xin Wang , Lingyu Qiu , Jiaqi Wang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Jitao Sang

Under noisy environments, to achieve the robust performance of speaker recognition is still a challenging task. Motivated by the promising performance of multi-task training in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Jianfeng Zhou , Tao Jiang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Zhe Wang , Bingyin Xia

Adversarial attacks on deep learning models have proliferated in recent years. In many cases, a different adversarial perturbation is required to be added to each image to cause the deep learning model to misclassify it. This is ineffective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anthony Etim , Jakub Szefer

Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of acoustics-enabled personal devices powered by machine learning. Yet, machine learning has proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A large number of modern systems protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Shimaa Ahmed , Yash Wani , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Mohammad Yaghini , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot , Kassem Fawaz

Growing at a fast pace, modern autonomous systems will soon be deployed at scale, opening up the possibility for cooperative multi-agent systems. Sharing information and distributing workloads allow autonomous agents to better perform tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 James Tu , Tsunhsuan Wang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Recent work has shown that additive threat models, which only permit the addition of bounded noise to the pixels of an image, are insufficient for fully capturing the space of imperceivable adversarial examples. For example, small rotations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-25 Matt Jordan , Naren Manoj , Surbhi Goel , Alexandros G. Dimakis