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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

Vision transformers have achieved impressive performance in various vision-related tasks, but their vulnerability to backdoor attacks is under-explored. A handful of existing works focus on dirty-label attacks with wrongly-labeled poisoned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Xueluan Gong , Bowei Tian , Meng Xue , Shuike Li , Yanjiao Chen , Qian Wang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

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

Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

The widespread adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) elevates supply-chain risk on third-party model hubs, where an adversary can implant backdoors into released checkpoints. Existing ViT backdoor attacks largely rely on poisoned-data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaozuo Shen , Yifei Cai , Rui Ning , Chunsheng Xin , Hongyi Wu

Self-attention based models such as vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a very competitive architecture alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. Despite increasingly stronger variants with ever-higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Junting Pan , Adrian Bulat , Fuwen Tan , Xiatian Zhu , Lukasz Dudziak , Hongsheng Li , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

This paper presents a novel approach to address the challenges of understanding the prediction process and debugging prediction errors in Vision Transformers (ViT), which have demonstrated superior performance in various computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Seok-Yong Byun , Wonju Lee

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), such as the convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have been successfully applied in the field of computer vision, they are demonstrated to be vulnerable to well-sought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fahad Alrasheedi , Xin Zhong

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Transformer models have excelled in natural language tasks, prompting the vision community to explore their implementation in computer vision problems. However, these models are still influenced by adversarial examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jialin Wu , Kaikai Pan , Yanjiao Chen , Jiangyi Deng , Shengyuan Pang , Wenyuan Xu

Recently, Deep Learning (DL) techniques have been used for User Equipment (UE) positioning. However, the key shortcomings of such models is that: i) they weigh the same attention to the entire input; ii) they are not well suited for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Parshwa Shah , Dhaval K. Patel , Brijesh Soni , Miguel López-Benítez , Siddhartan Govindasamy

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

In recent years, vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful and promising techniques for computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

Vision State Space Models (SSMs), particularly architectures like Vision Mamba (ViM), have emerged as promising alternatives to Vision Transformers (ViTs). However, the security implications of this novel architecture, especially their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yinghao Wu , Liyan Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely applied in various computer vision and vision-language tasks. To gain insights into their robustness in practical scenarios, transferable adversarial examples on ViTs have been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuchen Ren , Zhengyu Zhao , Chenhao Lin , Bo Yang , Lu Zhou , Zhe Liu , Chao Shen

Backdoor attacks are an insidious security threat against machine learning models. Adversaries can manipulate the predictions of compromised models by inserting triggers into the training phase. Various backdoor attacks have been devised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuanli He , Jun Wang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

In recent years, the Vision Transformer (ViT) has garnered significant attention within the computer vision community. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and suffers from quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He