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Typographic attacks exploit multi-modal systems by injecting text into images, leading to targeted misclassifications, malicious content generation and even Vision-Language Model jailbreaks. In this work, we analyze how CLIP vision encoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Lorenz Hufe , Constantin Venhoff , Erblina Purelku , Maximilian Dreyer , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) rely on vision encoders and Large Language Models (LLMs) to exhibit remarkable capabilities on various multi-modal tasks in the joint space of vision and language. However, typographic attacks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Hao Cheng , Erjia Xiao , Jindong Gu , Le Yang , Jinhao Duan , Jize Zhang , Jiahang Cao , Kaidi Xu , Renjing Xu

As audio-visual multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, understanding their vulnerabilities is crucial. To this end, we introduce Multi-Modal Typography, a systematic study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianle Chen , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Typographic attacks exploit the interplay between text and visual content in multimodal foundation models, causing misclassifications when misleading text is embedded within images. Existing datasets are limited in size and diversity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Justus Westerhoff , Erblina Purelku , Jakob Hackstein , Jonas Loos , Leo Pinetzki , Erik Rodner , Lorenz Hufe

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show remarkable capabilities, their safety alignments are susceptible to jailbreak attacks. Existing attack methods typically focus on text-image interplay, treating the visual modality as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuan Xiong , Ziqi Miao , Lijun Li , Chen Qian , Jie Li , Jing Shao

Vision-language models (VLMs) (e.g. CLIP, LLaVA) are trained on large-scale, lightly curated web datasets, leading them to learn unintended correlations between semantic concepts and unrelated visual signals. These associations degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Maan Qraitem , Piotr Teterwak , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Typographic attacks, adding misleading text to images, can deceive vision-language models (LVLMs). The susceptibility of recent large LVLMs like GPT4-V to such attacks is understudied, raising concerns about amplified misinformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Maan Qraitem , Nazia Tasnim , Piotr Teterwak , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Vision-language pre-training models (VLPs) have exhibited revolutionary improvements in various vision-language tasks. In VLP, some adversarial attacks fool a model into false or absurd classifications. Previous studies addressed these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Hiroki Azuma , Yusuke Matsui

Current image generation models can effortlessly produce high-quality, highly realistic images, but this also increases the risk of misuse. In various Text-to-Image or Image-to-Image tasks, attackers can generate a series of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Hao Cheng , Erjia Xiao , Jiayan Yang , Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Jize Zhang , Kaidi Xu , Jindong Gu , Renjing Xu

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) integrate visual data processing, expanding their real-world applications, but also increasing the risk of generating unsafe responses. In response, leading companies have implemented Multi-Layered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yijun Yang , Lichao Wang , Xiao Yang , Lanqing Hong , Jun Zhu

We study typographic prompt injection attacks on vision-language models (VLMs), where adversarial text is rendered as images to bypass safety mechanisms, posing a growing threat as VLMs serve as the perceptual backbone of autonomous agents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ravikumar Balakrishnan , Sanket Mendapara , Ankit Garg

Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) now pose a serious yet overlooked privacy threat, as they can infer a social media user's geolocation directly from shared images, leading to unintended privacy leakage. While adversarial image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiayi Zhu , Yihao Huang , Yue Cao , Xiaojun Jia , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Geguang Pu , Bin Wang

Visual language pre-training (VLP) models have demonstrated significant success across various domains, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Addressing these adversarial vulnerabilities is crucial for enhancing security in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Dehong Kong , Siyuan Liang , Xiaopeng Zhu , Yuansheng Zhong , Wenqi Ren

Vision-Large-Language-Models (Vision-LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into autonomous driving (AD) systems due to their advanced visual-language reasoning capabilities, targeting the perception, prediction, planning, and control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nhat Chung , Sensen Gao , Tuan-Anh Vu , Jie Zhang , Aishan Liu , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong , Qing Guo

Despite the substantial advancements in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks poses a significant challenge. Existing work rarely studies the transferability of attacks on VLP models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiyuan Fu , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Haijing Guo , Jiafeng Wang , Shuyong Gao , Wenqiang Zhang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can be vulnerable to adversarial images that subtly bias their outputs toward plausible yet incorrect responses. We introduce a general, efficient, and training-free defense that combines image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nadav Kadvil , Malak Fares , Ayellet Tal

The deployment of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has brought forth a unique vulnerability: susceptibility to malicious attacks through visual inputs. This paper investigates the novel challenge of defending MLLMs against such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Renjie Pi , Tianyang Han , Jianshu Zhang , Yueqi Xie , Rui Pan , Qing Lian , Hanze Dong , Jipeng Zhang , Tong Zhang

Despite inheriting security measures from underlying language models, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) may still be vulnerable to safety alignment issues. Through empirical analysis, we uncover two critical findings: scenario-matched images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shuyang Hao , Bryan Hooi , Jun Liu , Kai-Wei Chang , Zi Huang , Yujun Cai

As a general-purpose vision-language pretraining model, CLIP demonstrates strong generalization ability in image-text alignment tasks and has been widely adopted in downstream applications such as image classification and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kuanrong Liu , Siyuan Liang , Cheng Qian , Ming Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

Multimodal Machine Learning systems, particularly those aligning text and image data like CLIP/BLIP models, have become increasingly prevalent, yet remain susceptible to adversarial attacks. While substantial research has addressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Minh Vu , Geigh Zollicoffer , Huy Mai , Ben Nebgen , Boian Alexandrov , Manish Bhattarai
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