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Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have vulnerabilities related to security concerns, with attackers usually employing complex hacking techniques to expose their structures. Data poisoning-enabled perturbation attacks are complex adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Ibrahim Radwan , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali , Neeraj Kumar

Machine learning models are vulnerable to tiny adversarial input perturbations optimized to cause a very large output error. To measure this vulnerability, we need reliable methods that can find such adversarial perturbations. For image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Levente Halmosi , Bálint Mohos , Márk Jelasity

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks (DNNs). In this paper, we make the case that sparse representations of the input data are a crucial tool for combating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-16 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Convolutional neural network-based medical image classifiers have been shown to be especially susceptible to adversarial examples. Such instabilities are likely to be unacceptable in the future of automated diagnoses. Though statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Isaac Wasserman

Throughout the past five years, the susceptibility of neural networks to minimal adversarial perturbations has moved from a peculiar phenomenon to a core issue in Deep Learning. Despite much attention, however, progress towards more robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-13 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Kümmerer , Ivan Ustyuzhaninov , Matthias Bethge

This study investigates the vulnerability of time series classification models to adversarial attacks, with a focus on how these models process local versus global information under such conditions. By leveraging the Normalized Auto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zhengyang Li , Wenhao Liang , Chang Dong , Weitong Chen , Dong Huang

Adversarial training is a defense technique that improves adversarial robustness of a deep neural network (DNN) by including adversarial examples in the training data. In this paper, we identify an overlooked problem of adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wonseok Lee , Hanbit Lee , Sang-goo Lee

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are being deployed for an increasing number of safety-critical applications, including autonomous cars and medical diagnosis. However, concerns about their reliability have been raised due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Luiz Sena , Xidan Song , Erickson Alves , Iury Bessa , Edoardo Manino , Lucas Cordeiro , Eddie de Lima Filho

The existence of real-world adversarial examples (commonly in the form of patches) poses a serious threat for the use of deep learning models in safety-critical computer vision tasks such as visual perception in autonomous driving. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Saasha Nair , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Semantic segmentation networks (SSNs) are central to safety-critical applications such as medical imaging and autonomous driving, where robustness under uncertainty is essential. However, existing probabilistic verification methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Navid Hashemi , Samuel Sasaki , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Lars Lindemann , Ipek Oguz , Meiyi Ma , Taylor T. Johnson

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are well-known for their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, posing significant security concerns. In response to these threats, various defense methods have emerged to bolster the model's robustness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiacong Hu , Jingwen Ye , Zunlei Feng , Jiazhen Yang , Shunyu Liu , Xiaotian Yu , Lingxiang Jia , Mingli Song

Deep learning on graph structures has shown exciting results in various applications. However, few attentions have been paid to the robustness of such models, in contrast to numerous research work for image or text adversarial attack and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hanjun Dai , Hui Li , Tian Tian , Xin Huang , Lin Wang , Jun Zhu , Le Song

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a key technique to reduce communication overhead without sacrificing performance in edge computing systems. Recently, entropy coding has been introduced to further reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Shahriar Rifat , Francesco Restuccia

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve strong performance in semantic segmentation for robotic perception but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, threatening safety-critical applications. While robustness has been studied for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ziad Sharawy , Mohammad Nakshbandi , Sorin Mihai Grigorescu

In order to gain access to networks, different types of intrusion attacks have been designed, and the attackers are working on improving them. Computer networks have become increasingly important in daily life due to the increasing reliance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Mohammad Hossein Modirrousta , Parisa Forghani Arani , Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

Adversarial attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of convolutional neural networks by introducing imperceptible perturbations that lead to misclassifications, exposing weaknesses in feature representations and decision boundaries. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Longwei Wang , Navid Nayyem , Abdullah Rakin

Motivated by safety-critical classification problems, we investigate adversarial attacks against cost-sensitive classifiers. We use current state-of-the-art adversarially-resistant neural network classifiers [1] as the underlying models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-08 Gavin S. Hartnett , Andrew J. Lohn , Alexander P. Sedlack

Recent works have shown that the input domain of any machine learning classifier is bound to contain adversarial examples. Thus we can no longer hope to immune classifiers against adversarial examples and instead can only aim to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Gil Fidel , Ron Bitton , Ziv Katzir , Asaf Shabtai

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which offer exceptional energy efficiency for inference, and Federated Learning (FL), which offers privacy-preserving distributed training, is a rising area of interest that highly beneficial towards Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Manh V. Nguyen , Liang Zhao , Bobin Deng , Shaoen Wu