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With the development of high computational devices, deep neural networks (DNNs), in recent years, have gained significant popularity in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. However, previous efforts have shown that DNNs were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Ahoud Alhazmi , Chenliang Li

With the rise in popularity of machine and deep learning models, there is an increased focus on their vulnerability to malicious inputs. These adversarial examples drift model predictions away from the original intent of the network and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Richard Tran , David Patrick , Michael Geyer , Amanda Fernandez

Foundation models trained on web-scraped datasets propagate societal biases to downstream tasks. While counterfactual generation enables bias analysis, existing methods introduce artifacts by modifying contextual elements like clothing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Kirill Sirotkin , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Pablo Carballeira , Mayug Maniparambil , Catarina Barata , Noel E. O'Connor

Counterfactual data augmentation has recently emerged as a method to mitigate confounding biases in the training data. These biases, such as spurious correlations, arise due to various observed and unobserved confounding variables in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy , Saketh Bachu , Saloni Dash , Charchit Sharma , Amit Sharma , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

In spite of the enormous success of neural networks, adversarial examples remain a relatively weakly understood feature of deep learning systems. There is a considerable effort in both building more powerful adversarial attacks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

There is a broad consensus on the importance of deep learning models in tasks involving complex data. Often, an adequate understanding of these models is required when focusing on the transparency of decisions in human-critical…

Recent work on counterfactual visual explanations has contributed to making artificial intelligence models more explainable by providing visual perturbation to flip the prediction. However, these approaches neglect the causal relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yiran Qiao , Disheng Liu , Yiren Lu , Yu Yin , Mengnan Du , Jing Ma

We propose a novel approach for generating unrestricted adversarial examples by manipulating fine-grained aspects of image generation. Unlike existing unrestricted attacks that typically hand-craft geometric transformations, we learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Yordanos Goshu , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

When data is publicly released for human consumption, it is unclear how to prevent its unauthorized usage for machine learning purposes. Successful model training may be preventable with carefully designed dataset modifications, and we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Ivan Evtimov , Ian Covert , Aditya Kusupati , Tadayoshi Kohno

Adversarial examples are fabricated examples, indistinguishable from the original image that mislead neural networks and drastically lower their performance. Recently proposed AdvGAN, a GAN based approach, takes input image as a prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Puneet Mangla , Surgan Jandial , Sakshi Varshney , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

We show that the representation of an image in a deep neural network (DNN) can be manipulated to mimic those of other natural images, with only minor, imperceptible perturbations to the original image. Previous methods for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Sara Sabour , Yanshuai Cao , Fartash Faghri , David J. Fleet

Deep neural networks have been proved that they are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are generated by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to images. To defend these adversarial examples, various detection based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Kejiang Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Hang Zhou , Chuan Qin , Xiaofeng Mao , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Over the last few years, the phenomenon of adversarial examples --- maliciously constructed inputs that fool trained machine learning models --- has captured the attention of the research community, especially when the adversary is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Nic Ford , Justin Gilmer , Nicolas Carlini , Dogus Cubuk

Adversarial examples in machine learning are typically generated using gradients, obtained either directly through access to the model or approximated via queries to it. In this paper, we propose a much simpler approach to craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alexander Warnecke , Konrad Rieck

Counterfactual explanation methods have recently received significant attention for explaining CNN-based image classifiers due to their ability to provide easily understandable explanations that align more closely with human reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Syed Ali Tariq , Tehseen Zia

In recent years, diffusion models (DMs) have drawn significant attention for their success in approximating data distributions, yielding state-of-the-art generative results. Nevertheless, the versatility of these models extends beyond their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peter Lorenz , Ricard Durall , Janis Keuper

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Adversarial examples are maliciously modified inputs created to fool deep neural networks (DNN). The discovery of such inputs presents a major issue to the expansion of DNN-based solutions. Many researchers have already contributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alessandro Cennamo , Ido Freeman , Anton Kummert

Models that are learned from real-world data are often biased because the data used to train them is biased. This can propagate systemic human biases that exist and ultimately lead to inequitable treatment of people, especially minorities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Daniel McDuff , Shuang Ma , Yale Song , Ashish Kapoor

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji