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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which pose security challenges to hyperspectral image (HSI) classification based on DNNs. Numerous adversarial attack methods have been designed in the domain of natural…

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Signature-based malware detectors have proven to be insufficient as even a small change in malignant executable code can bypass these signature-based detectors. Many machine learning-based models have been proposed to efficiently detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yash Jakhotiya , Heramb Patil , Jugal Rawlani , Sunil B. Mane

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks: subtle perturbation can completely change prediction result. The vulnerability has led to a surge of research in this direction, including adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Bin Zhu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Since the threat of malicious software (malware) has become increasingly serious, automatic malware detection techniques have received increasing attention, where machine learning (ML)-based visualization detection methods become more and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Xinbo Liu , Jiliang Zhang , Yaping Lin , He Li

Adversarial learning methods are a promising approach to training robust deep networks, and can generate complex samples across diverse domains. They also can improve recognition despite the presence of domain shift or dataset bias: several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Eric Tzeng , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) methods aim to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. UDA has been extensively studied in the computer vision literature. Deep networks have been shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Shao-Yuan Lo , Vishal M. Patel

Transfer-based attacks pose a significant threat to real-world applications by directly targeting victim models with adversarial examples generated on surrogate models. While numerous approaches have been proposed to enhance adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bohan Liu , Xiaosen Wang

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Deep neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, vanilla adversarial examples generated under the white-box setting often exhibit low transferability across different models. Since adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zeliang Zhang , Wei Yao , Xiaosen Wang

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain by addressing domain shifts. Most UDA approaches emphasize transfer ability, but often overlook robustness against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fuxiang Huang , Xiaowei Fu , Shiyu Ye , Lina Ma , Wen Li , Xinbo Gao , David Zhang , Lei Zhang

Visual-Language Pre-training (VLP) models have achieved significant performance across various downstream tasks. However, they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. While prior efforts focus on improving the adversarial transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Liu , Aoyang Zhou , Aoyang Zhou

The emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has revolutionized various domains by enabling the resolution of complex tasks spanning image recognition, natural language processing, and scientific problem-solving. However, this progress has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jindong Gu , Xiaojun Jia , Pau de Jorge , Wenqain Yu , Xinwei Liu , Avery Ma , Yuan Xun , Anjun Hu , Ashkan Khakzar , Zhijiang Li , Xiaochun Cao , Philip Torr

Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) have become a dominant component due to their exceptional performance when fine-tuned for downstream tasks. However, the presence of backdoors within PVMs poses significant threats. Unfortunately, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Aishan Liu , Xinwei Zhang , Yisong Xiao , Yuguang Zhou , Siyuan Liang , Jiakai Wang , Xianglong Liu , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao

While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it hard to scale to large datasets like ImageNet. The key idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhichao Huang , Yanbo Fan , Chen Liu , Weizhong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk , Jue Wang

Classification models for the multivariate time series have gained significant importance in the research community, but not much research has been done on generating adversarial samples for these models. Such samples of adversaries could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Samuel Harford , Fazle Karim , Houshang Darabi

Transfer learning represents a recent paradigm shift in the way we build artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In contrast to training task-specific models, transfer learning involves pre-training deep learning models on a large corpus of…

Backdoor attack has emerged as a novel and concerning threat to AI security. These attacks involve the training of Deep Neural Network (DNN) on datasets that contain hidden trigger patterns. Although the poisoned model behaves normally on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Huasong Zhou , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaodong Wang , Leon Bevan Bullock

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved revolutionary progress in robot learning, enabling robots to execute complex physical robot tasks from natural language instructions. Despite this progress, their adversarial robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haochuan Xu , Yun Sing Koh , Shuhuai Huang , Zirun Zhou , Di Wang , Jun Sakuma , Jingfeng Zhang

Large vision models have been found vulnerable to adversarial examples, emphasizing the need for enhancing their adversarial robustness. While adversarial training is an effective defense for deep convolutional models, it often faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kangtao Lv , Huangsen Cao , Kainan Tu , Yihuai Xu , Zhimeng Zhang , Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang