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Recent studies have revealed that vision transformers (ViTs) face similar security risks from adversarial attacks as deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, directly applying attack methodology on CNNs to ViTs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chao Zhou , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

Vision transformers (ViTs) process input images as sequences of patches via self-attention; a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This makes it interesting to study the adversarial feature space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) come from extracting and interpreting features from the data provided. By exploiting intermediate features in DNNs instead of relying on hard labels, we craft adversarial perturbation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Dehua Zhu , Yuanzhang Li

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated exemplary performance on a variety of vision tasks and are being used as an alternative to CNNs. Their design is based on a self-attention mechanism that processes images as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Aniruddha Saha , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully deployed in a variety of computer vision tasks, but they are still vulnerable to adversarial samples. Transfer-based attacks use a local model to generate adversarial samples and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jianping Zhang , Yizhan Huang , Weibin Wu , Michael R. Lyu

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a series of computer vision tasks, yet they still suffer from adversarial examples. % crafted in a similar fashion as CNNs. In this paper, we posit that adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Micah Goldblum , Zuxuan Wu , Tom Goldstein , Yu-Gang Jiang

The increasing reliance on machine learning systems has made their security a critical concern. Evasion attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the decision-making processes of AI systems, potentially causing security breaches or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kasper Cools , Clara Maathuis , Alexander M. van Oers , Claudia S. Hübner , Nikos Deligiannis , Marijke Vandewal , Geert De Cubber

While transformer-based models dominate NLP and vision applications, their underlying mechanisms to map the input space to the label space semantically are not well understood. In this paper, we study the sources of known representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Chashi Mahiul Islam , Samuel Jacob Chacko , Mao Nishino , Xiuwen Liu

Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming a very popular paradigm for vision tasks as they achieve state-of-the-art performance on image classification. However, although early works implied that this network structure had increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hugo Lemarchant , Liangzi Li , Yiming Qian , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, the adversarial examples generated by ViTs are challenging to transfer to other networks with different structures. Recent attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Huipeng Zhou , Yu-an Tan , Yajie Wang , Haoran Lyu , Shangbo Wu , Yuanzhang Li

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In previous studies, the use of models encrypted with a secret key was demonstrated to be robust against white-box attacks, but not against black-box…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ryota Iijima , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Vision Transformers (ViT) are competing to replace Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for various computer vision tasks in medical imaging such as classification and segmentation. While the vulnerability of CNNs to adversarial attacks is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Faris Almalik , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are increasingly deployed to offer advanced capabilities on inputs comprising both text and images. While prior research has shown that adversarial attacks can transfer from open-source to proprietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kai Hu , Weichen Yu , Li Zhang , Alexander Robey , Andy Zou , Chengming Xu , Haoqi Hu , Matt Fredrikson

Following the success in advancing natural language processing and understanding, transformers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to computer vision. This work provides a comprehensive study on the robustness of vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rulin Shao , Zhouxing Shi , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial attacks in black-box settings are highly practical, with transfer-based attacks being the most effective at generating adversarial examples (AEs) that transfer from surrogate models to unseen target models. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tao Wu , Tie Luo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, which means AEs generated for a source model can fool another black-box model (target model) with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Ryota Iijima , Miki Tanaka , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Deep learning models have shown remarkable success in dermatological image analysis, offering potential for automated skin disease diagnosis. Previously, convolutional neural network(CNN) based architectures have achieved immense popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rifat Sadik , Tanvir Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharjee , Bikash Chandra Halder , Ismail Hossain , Mridul Banik , Jia Uddin
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