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Adversarial patch attacks pose a practical threat to deep learning models by forcing targeted misclassifications through localized perturbations, often realized in the physical world. Existing defenses typically assume prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ayushi Mehrotra , Derek Peng , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Adversarial attacks on machine learning models have seen increasing interest in the past years. By making only subtle changes to the input of a convolutional neural network, the output of the network can be swayed to output a completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Simen Thys , Wiebe Van Ranst , Toon Goedemé

Recently, object detection has proven vulnerable to adversarial patch attacks. The attackers holding a specially crafted patch can hide themselves from state-of-the-art detectors, e.g., YOLO, even in the physical world. This attack can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiachun Li , Jianan Feng , Jianjun Huang , Bin Liang

We consider universal adversarial patches for faces -- small visual elements whose addition to a face image reliably destroys the performance of face detectors. Unlike previous work that mostly focused on the algorithmic design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Xiao Yang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Jun Zhu

Adversarial patches present significant challenges to the robustness of deep learning models, making the development of effective defenses become critical for real-world applications. This paper introduces DIFFender, a novel DIFfusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xingxing Wei , Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su

Object detection is fundamental to various real-world applications, such as security monitoring and surveillance video analysis. Despite their advancements, state-of-the-art object detectors are still vulnerable to adversarial patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jin Ma , Mohammed Aldeen , Christopher Salas , Feng Luo , Mashrur Chowdhury , Mert Pesé , Long Cheng

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

The widespread adoption of computer vision systems has underscored their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly adversarial patch attacks on object detectors. This study evaluates defense mechanisms for the YOLOv5 model against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Roie Kazoom , Raz Birman , Ofer Hadar

Adversarial patch attacks create adversarial examples by injecting arbitrary distortions within a bounded region of the input to fool deep neural networks (DNNs). These attacks are robust (i.e., physically-realizable) and universally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Zitao Chen , Pritam Dash , Karthik Pattabiraman

The physical attack has been regarded as a kind of threat against real-world computer vision systems. Still, many existing defense methods are only useful for small perturbations attacks and can't detect physical attacks effectively. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 JiaHao Xie , Ye Luo , Jianwei Lu

Deep neural networks have been shown vulnerable toadversarial patches, where exotic patterns can resultin models wrong prediction. Nevertheless, existing ap-proaches to adversarial patch generation hardly con-sider the contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Jinqi Luo , Tao Bai , Jun Zhao

Recently demonstrated physical-world adversarial attacks have exposed vulnerabilities in perception systems that pose severe risks for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. These attacks place adversarial artifacts in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Nicole Finnie , Robin Hutmacher

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

Adversarial patch attacks present a significant threat to real-world object detectors due to their practical feasibility. Existing defense methods, which rely on attack data or prior knowledge, struggle to effectively address a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lihua Jing , Rui Wang , Wenqi Ren , Xin Dong , Cong Zou

Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

Physical adversarial attacks threaten to fool object detection systems, but reproducible research on the real-world effectiveness of physical patches and how to defend against them requires a publicly available benchmark dataset. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Anneliese Braunegg , Amartya Chakraborty , Michael Krumdick , Nicole Lape , Sara Leary , Keith Manville , Elizabeth Merkhofer , Laura Strickhart , Matthew Walmer

An adversarial patch can arbitrarily manipulate image pixels within a restricted region to induce model misclassification. The threat of this localized attack has gained significant attention because the adversary can mount a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Blind spots or outright deceit can bedevil and deceive machine learning models. Unidentified objects such as digital "stickers," also known as adversarial patches, can fool facial recognition systems, surveillance systems and self-driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Zijian Zhu , Hang Su , Chang Liu , Wenzhao Xiang , Shibao Zheng

Patch-based adversarial attacks were proven to compromise the robustness and reliability of computer vision systems. However, their conspicuous and easily detectable nature challenge their practicality in real-world setting. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Amira Guesmi , Ruitian Ding , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Ihsen Alouani , Muhammad Shafique

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