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Physical adversarial patch attacks critically threaten pedestrian detection, causing surveillance and autonomous driving systems to miss pedestrians and creating severe safety risks. Despite their effectiveness in controlled settings,…

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Real-world adversarial physical patches were shown to be successful in compromising state-of-the-art models in a variety of computer vision applications. Existing defenses that are based on either input gradient or features analysis have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Bilel Tarchoun , Anouar Ben Khalifa , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Ihsen Alouani

Adversarial attacks, particularly patch attacks, pose significant threats to the robustness and reliability of deep learning models. Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks is crucial for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

In recent years, adversarial attacks against deep learning-based object detectors in the physical world have attracted much attention. To defend against these attacks, researchers have proposed various defense methods against adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei Zhang , Zhanhao Hu , Xiao Li , Xiaopei Zhu , Xiaolin Hu

Deep neural networks are successfully used in various applications, but show their vulnerability to adversarial examples. With the development of adversarial patches, the feasibility of attacks in physical scenes increases, and the defenses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Junwen Chen , Xingxing Wei

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

Adversarial patch attacks pose a significant threat to the practical deployment of deep learning systems. However, existing research primarily focuses on image pre-processing defenses, which often result in reduced classification accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized the field of computer vision like object detection with their unparalleled performance. However, existing research has shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In the physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Zijin Lin , Yue Zhao , Kai Chen , Jinwen He

To operate in real-world high-stakes environments, deep learning systems have to endure noises that have been continuously thwarting their robustness. Data-end defense, which improves robustness by operations on input data instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jiakai Wang , Zixin Yin , Pengfei Hu , Aishan Liu , Renshuai Tao , Haotong Qin , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Adversarial patches are images designed to fool otherwise well-performing neural network-based computer vision models. Although these attacks were initially conceived of and studied digitally, in that the raw pixel values of the image were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Gavin S. Hartnett , Li Ang Zhang , Caolionn O'Connell , Andrew J. Lohn , Jair Aguirre

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

State-of-the-art object detectors are vulnerable to localized patch hiding attacks, where an adversary introduces a small adversarial patch to make detectors miss the detection of salient objects. The patch attacker can carry out a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in physical adversarial attacks, which aim to craft deployable patterns for deceiving deep neural networks, especially for person detectors. However, the adversarial patterns of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jikang Cheng , Ying Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Zou Qin , Chen Li

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy customized attacks by intelligent adversaries. This paper deals with the detection of APTs that infiltrate cyber systems and compromise specifically targeted data and/or infrastructures.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Shana Moothedath , Dinuka Sahabandu , Joey Allen , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

While machine learning applications are getting mainstream owing to a demonstrated efficiency in solving complex problems, they suffer from inherent vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks consist of additive noise to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Bilel Tarchoun , Ihsen Alouani , Anouar Ben Khalifa , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

Defending against physical adversarial attacks is a rapidly growing topic in deep learning and computer vision. Prominent forms of physical adversarial attacks, such as overlaid adversarial patches and objects, share similarities with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Perry Deng , Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Matthew Wright

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…

Object detection plays a key role in many security-critical systems. Adversarial patch attacks, which are easy to implement in the physical world, pose a serious threat to state-of-the-art object detectors. Developing reliable defenses for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jiang Liu , Alexander Levine , Chun Pong Lau , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

Deep learning image classification is vulnerable to adversarial attack, even if the attacker changes just a small patch of the image. We propose a defense against patch attacks based on partially occluding the image around each candidate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Michael McCoyd , Won Park , Steven Chen , Neil Shah , Ryan Roggenkemper , Minjune Hwang , Jason Xinyu Liu , David Wagner

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) increasingly use DNN-based object detection models in vision-based perception. Correct detection and classification of obstacles is critical to ensure safe, trustworthy driving decisions. Adversarial patches aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jaden Mu