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In real-world machine learning systems, labels are often derived from user behaviors that the system wishes to encourage. Over time, new models must be trained as new training examples and features become available. However, feedback loops…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Victoria Lin , Louis-Philippe Morency , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Srinagesh Sharma

Mitigating bias in machine learning models is a critical endeavor for ensuring fairness and equity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address bias by leveraging pixel image attributions to identify and regularize regions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sander De Coninck , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

We describe a new approach that improves the training of generative adversarial nets (GANs) for synthesizing diverse images from a text input. Our approach is based on the conditional version of GANs and expands on previous work leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Miriam Cha , Youngjune L. Gwon , H. T. Kung

ConvNets and Imagenet have driven the recent success of deep learning for image classification. However, the marked slowdown in performance improvement combined with the lack of robustness of neural networks to adversarial examples and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pierre Stock , Moustapha Cisse

The great success of convolutional neural networks has caused a massive spread of the use of such models in a large variety of Computer Vision applications. However, these models are vulnerable to certain inputs, the adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Petros Maragos

Deep computer vision systems being vulnerable to imperceptible and carefully crafted noise have raised questions regarding the robustness of their decisions. We take a step back and approach this problem from an orthogonal direction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Sadaf Gulshad , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Arnold Smeulders , Zeynep Akata

It has been observed that deep learning architectures tend to make erroneous decisions with high reliability for particularly designed adversarial instances. In this work, we show that the perturbation analysis of these architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

Machine learning researchers have long noticed the phenomenon that the model training process will be more effective and efficient when the training samples are densely sampled around the underlying decision boundary. While this observation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Honggang Yu , Shihfeng Zeng , Teng Zhang , Ing-Chao Lin , Yier Jin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur

Machine learning models, especially deep neural networks (DNNs), have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples which are carefully crafted samples with a small magnitude of the perturbation. Such adversarial perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Anand Bhattad , Min Jin Chong , Kaizhao Liang , Bo Li , D. A. Forsyth

Generative networks are fundamentally different in their aim and methods compared to CNNs for classification, segmentation, or object detection. They have initially not been meant to be an image analysis tool, but to produce naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Markus Wenzel

Research of adversarial attacks is important for AI security because it shows the vulnerability of deep learning models and helps to build more robust models. Adversarial attacks on images are most widely studied, which include noise-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaopei Zhu , Peiyang Xu , Guanning Zeng , Yingpeng Dong , Xiaolin Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are threatened by adversarial examples. Adversarial detection, which distinguishes adversarial images from benign images, is fundamental for robust DNN-based services. Image transformation is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Hui Liu , Bo Zhao , Yuefeng Peng , Weidong Li , Peng Liu

Adversarial examples are a hot topic due to their abilities to fool a classifier's prediction. There are two strategies to create such examples, one uses the attacked classifier's gradients, while the other only requires access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jean-Christophe Burnel , Kilian Fatras , Nicolas Courty

We investigate the impact of deep generative models on potential social biases in upcoming computer vision models. As the internet witnesses an increasing influx of AI-generated images, concerns arise regarding inherent biases that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Tianwei Chen , Yusuke Hirota , Mayu Otani , Noa Garcia , Yuta Nakashima

Generating adversarial examples for natural language is hard, as natural language consists of discrete symbols, and examples are often of variable lengths. In this paper, we propose a geometry-inspired attack for generating natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhao Meng , Roger Wattenhofer

Neural networks have a number of shortcomings. Amongst the severest ones is the sensitivity to distribution shifts which allows models to be easily fooled into wrong predictions by small perturbations to inputs that are often imperceivable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Adding perturbations via utilizing auxiliary gradient information or discarding existing details of the benign images are two common approaches for generating adversarial examples. Though visual imperceptibility is the desired property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zihan Chen , Ziyue Wang , Junjie Huang , Wentao Zhao , Xiao Liu , Dejian Guan

Adversarial examples are data points misclassified by neural networks. Originally, adversarial examples were limited to adding small perturbations to a given image. Recent work introduced the generalized concept of unrestricted adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Martin Kotuliak , Sandro E. Schoenborn , Andrei Dan

Due to their powerful image generation capabilities, diffusion-based adversarial example generation methods through image editing are rapidly gaining popularity. However, due to reliance on the discriminative capability of the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gaozheng Pei , Ke Ma , Dongpeng Zhang , Chengzhi Sun , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang