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Given the power of vision transformers, a new learning paradigm, pre-training and then prompting, makes it more efficient and effective to address downstream visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we identify a novel security threat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Sheng Yang , Jiawang Bai , Kuofeng Gao , Yong Yang , Yiming Li , Shu-tao Xia

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become ubiquitous in computer vision. Despite their success, ViTs lack inductive biases, which can make it difficult to train them with limited data. To address this challenge, prior studies suggest training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Srijan Das , Tanmay Jain , Dominick Reilly , Pranav Balaji , Soumyajit Karmakar , Shyam Marjit , Xiang Li , Abhijit Das , Michael S. Ryoo

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance, but are also vulnerable to backdoor attacks whereby the adversary can manipulate the model's outputs through hidden triggers. Prior attacks primarily rely on single-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhiyuan Zhong , Zhen Sun , Yepang Liu , Xinlei He , Guanhong Tao

Semantic segmentation models are widely deployed in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains largely underexplored. Prior segmentation backdoor studies transfer threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Guangsheng Zhang , Huan Tian , Leo Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Ming Ding , Wanlei Zhou , Bo Liu

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

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

Typical deep neural network (DNN) backdoor attacks are based on triggers embedded in inputs. Existing imperceptible triggers are computationally expensive or low in attack success. In this paper, we propose a new backdoor trigger, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Yulong Wang , Minghui Zhao , Shenghong Li , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become popular in computer vision tasks. Backdoor attacks, which trigger undesirable behaviours in models during inference, threaten ViTs' performance, particularly in security-sensitive tasks. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zeyu Michael Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) enabled the use of the transformer architecture on vision tasks showing impressive performances when trained on big datasets. However, on relatively small datasets, ViTs are less accurate given their lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Guglielmo Camporese , Elena Izzo , Lamberto Ballan

A secure fingerprint recognition system must contain both a presentation attack (i.e., spoof) detection and recognition module in order to protect users against unwanted access by malicious users. Traditionally, these tasks would be carried…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Steven A. Grosz , Kanishka P. Wijewardena , Anil K. Jain

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Following their success in visual recognition tasks, Vision Transformers(ViTs) are being increasingly employed for image restoration. As a few recent works claim that ViTs for image classification also have better robustness properties, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shashank Agnihotri , Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Julia Grabinski , Paramanand Chandramouli , Margret Keuper

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks which can hide backdoor triggers in DNNs by poisoning training data. A backdoored model behaves normally on clean test images, yet consistently predicts a particular target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Xiang Zheng , James Bailey , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision Transformers (ViT) are competing to replace Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for various computer vision tasks in medical imaging such as classification and segmentation. While the vulnerability of CNNs to adversarial attacks is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Faris Almalik , Mohammad Yaqub , Karthik Nandakumar

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs), when pre-trained on large-scale data, provide general-purpose representations for diverse downstream tasks. However, artifacts in ViTs are widely observed across different supervision paradigms and downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Cheng Shi , Yizhou Yu , Sibei Yang

In a backdoor attack, an adversary injects corrupted data into a model's training dataset in order to gain control over its predictions on images with a specific attacker-defined trigger. A typical corrupted training example requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rishi D. Jha , Jonathan Hayase , Sewoong Oh

Understanding the mechanisms behind Vision Transformer (ViT), particularly its vulnerability to adversarial perturba tions, is crucial for addressing challenges in its real-world applications. Existing ViT adversarial attackers rely on la…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Chenxing Gao , Hang Zhou , Junqing Yu , YuTeng Ye , Jiale Cai , Junle Wang , Wei Yang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) take all the image patches as tokens and construct multi-head self-attention (MHSA) among them. Complete leverage of these image tokens brings redundant computations since not all the tokens are attentive in MHSA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Youwei Liang , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Pengtao Xie