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Object detection is the foundation of various critical computer-vision tasks such as segmentation, object tracking, and event detection. To train an object detector with satisfactory accuracy, a large amount of data is required. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hua Ma , Yinshan Li , Yansong Gao , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Anmin Fu , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Nepal Surya , Derek Abbott

Recently, 3D backdoor attacks have posed a substantial threat to 3D Deep Neural Networks (3D DNNs) designed for 3D point clouds, which are extensively deployed in various security-critical applications. Although the existing 3D backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaoyang Ning , Qing Xie , Jinyu Xu , Wenbo Jiang , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma

3D object detection plays an important role in autonomous driving; however, its vulnerability to backdoor attacks has become evident. By injecting ''triggers'' to poison the training dataset, backdoor attacks manipulate the detector's…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can handle increasingly complex tasks, albeit they require rapidly expanding training datasets. Collecting data from platforms with user-generated content, such as social networks, has significantly eased the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jonathan Knauer , Phillip Rieger , Hossein Fereidooni , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL) improves communication efficiency by exploiting the superposition property of wireless channels, but this same property also creates a critical security vulnerability: the parameter server (PS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xiaoyan Ma , Seohyun Lee , Taejoon Kim , Christopher G. Brinton

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a prevalent approach for encoding data representations. Using a pre-trained SSL image encoder and subsequently training a downstream classifier, impressive performance can be achieved on various tasks with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengxin Zheng , Jiaqi Xue , Zihao Wang , Xun Chen , Qian Lou , Lei Jiang , Xiaofeng Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary manipulates a small portion of training data such that the victim model predicts normally on the benign samples but classifies the triggered samples as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yinghua Gao , Yiming Li , Xueluan Gong , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia , Qian Wang

Deep learning models have achieved high performance on many tasks, and thus have been applied to many security-critical scenarios. For example, deep learning-based face recognition systems have been used to authenticate users to access many…

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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) significantly enhance road safety by detecting potential collisions and alerting drivers. However, their reliance on expensive sensor technologies such as LiDAR and radar limits accessibility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Muhammad Zaeem Shahzad , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Backdoor attacks embed hidden malicious behaviors into deep learning models, which only activate and cause misclassifications on model inputs containing a specific trigger. Existing works on backdoor attacks and defenses, however, mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Emily Wenger , Josephine Passananti , Arjun Bhagoji , Yuanshun Yao , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Split Learning (SL) offers a framework for collaborative model training that respects data privacy by allowing participants to share the same dataset while maintaining distinct feature sets. However, SL is susceptible to backdoor attacks,…

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Deep learning-based object detection has become ubiquitous in the last decade due to its high accuracy in many real-world applications. With this growing trend, these models are interested in being attacked by adversaries, with most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Pham Phuc , Son Vuong , Khang Nguyen , Tuan Dang

DDoS attacks have become a major threat to the security of IoT devices and can cause severe damage to the network infrastructure. IoT devices suffer from the inherent problem of resource constraints and are therefore susceptible to such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sandipan Dey , Payal Santosh Kate , Vatsala Upadhyay , Abhishek Vaish

Relying only on unlabeled data, Self-supervised learning (SSL) can learn rich features in an economical and scalable way. As the drive-horse for building foundation models, SSL has received a lot of attention recently with wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yifei Wang , Wenhan Ma , Stefanie Jegelka , Yisen Wang

Backdoor attacks (BAs) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A victim classifier will predict to an attacker-desired target class whenever a test sample is embedded with the same backdoor pattern (BP) that was used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Backdoor attacks can implant malicious behaviours into deep models while preserving performance on clean data, posing a serious threat to safety-critical vision systems. Although backdoor mitigation has been studied extensively for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak

Backdoor attacks (BA) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A classifier being attacked will predict to the attacker's target class when a test sample from a source class is embedded with the backdoor pattern (BP).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , Siheng Chen , Xi Li , George Kesidis

Federated learning is a promising approach for training machine learning models while preserving data privacy. However, its distributed nature makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks, particularly in NLP tasks, where related research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Minyeong Choe , Cheolhee Park , Changho Seo , Hyunil Kim

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced robotic control by enabling end-to-end decision-making directly from multimodal inputs. However, their tightly coupled architectures expose novel security vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xueyang Zhou , Guiyao Tie , Guowen Zhang , Hechang Wang , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

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