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Adversarial perturbations of normal images are usually imperceptible to humans, but they can seriously confuse state-of-the-art machine learning models. What makes them so special in the eyes of image classifiers? In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yang Song , Taesup Kim , Sebastian Nowozin , Stefano Ermon , Nate Kushman

Deepfake represents a category of face-swapping attacks that leverage machine learning models such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks. Although the concept of the face-swapping is not new, its recent technical advances make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chaofei Yang , Lei Ding , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive image generation quality and semantic editing capability of real images, e.g., changing object classes, modifying attributes, or transferring styles. However, applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yiran Xu , Badour AlBahar , Jia-Bin Huang

Text-to-Image generation models have revolutionized the artwork design process and enabled anyone to create high-quality images by entering text descriptions called prompts. Creating a high-quality prompt that consists of a subject and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xinyue Shen , Yiting Qu , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

A fundamental challenge in image editing lies in preserving spatial locality: edits should improve targeted content without inadvertently altering surrounding regions. However, most optimization-based editing approaches treat images as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shaodong Xu , Zexian Li , Zhendong Wang , Litong Gong , Tiezheng Ge , Wengang Zhou , Bo Zheng , Houqiang Li

Content moderation (removing or limiting the distribution of posts based on their contents) is one tool social networks use to fight problems such as harassment and disinformation. Manually screening all content is usually impractical given…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Eugene Yang , David D. Lewis , Ophir Frieder

The rapid advancements of generative AI have fueled the potential of generative text image editing, meanwhile escalating the threat of misinformation spreading. However, existing forensics methods struggle to detect unseen forgery types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chenfan Qu , Yiwu Zhong , Fengjun Guo , Lianwen Jin

Score-based generative models (SBM), also known as diffusion models, are the de facto state of the art for image synthesis. Despite their unparalleled performance, SBMs have recently been in the spotlight for being tricked into creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Camilo Carvajal Reyes , Joaquín Fontbona , Felipe Tobar

Face authentication systems have brought significant convenience and advanced developments, yet they have become unreliable due to their sensitivity to inconspicuous perturbations, such as adversarial attacks. Existing defenses often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hanrui Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Cunjian Chen , Minhui Xue , Lay-Ki Soon , Shuo Wang , Zhe Jin

As deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated into critical systems, several methods to attack these systems have been developed. These adversarial attacks make imperceptible modifications to an image that fool DNN classifiers. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

Instruction-driven image editing allows users to quickly edit an image according to text instructions in a forward pass. Nevertheless, malicious users can easily exploit this technique to create fake images, which could cause a crisis of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Runyi Hu , Jie Zhang , Ting Xu , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang

Denoising diffusion models have shown remarkable potential in various generation tasks. The open-source large-scale text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion, becomes prevalent as it can generate realistic artistic or facial images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ruijia Wu , Yuhang Wang , Huafeng Shi , Zhipeng Yu , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang

Social media platforms are being increasingly used by malicious actors to share unsafe content, such as images depicting sexual activity, cyberbullying, and self-harm. Consequently, major platforms use artificial intelligence (AI) and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mazal Bethany , Brandon Wherry , Nishant Vishwamitra , Peyman Najafirad

The success of diffusion models has enabled effortless, high-quality image modifications that precisely align with users' intentions, thereby raising concerns about their potential misuse by malicious actors. Previous studies have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Hohyun Na , Seunghoo Hong , Simon S. Woo

The rapid advancement of generative models, facilitating the creation of hyper-realistic images from textual descriptions, has concurrently escalated critical societal concerns such as misinformation. Although providing some mitigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Changhoon Kim , Kyle Min , Maitreya Patel , Sheng Cheng , Yezhou Yang

Identity-preserving models have led to notable progress in generating personalized content. Unfortunately, such models also exacerbate risks when misused, for instance, by generating threatening content targeting specific individuals. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Junming Fu , Jishen Zeng , Yi Jiang , Peiyu Zhuang , Baoying Chen , Siyu Lu , Jianquan Yang

In this paper, we introduce an innovative method of safeguarding user privacy against the generative capabilities of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) models. Our novel poisoning attack method induces changes to observed views that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yihan Wu , Brandon Y. Feng , Heng Huang

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for generating high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, their increasing popularity has raised significant copyright concerns, as these models can be misused to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Naen Xu , Changjiang Li , Tianyu Du , Minxi Li , Wenjie Luo , Jiacheng Liang , Yuyuan Li , Xuhong Zhang , Meng Han , Jianwei Yin , Ting Wang

Due to the widespread of advanced digital imaging devices, forgery of digital images became more serious attack patterns. In this attack scenario, the attacker tries to manipulate the digital image to conceal some meaningful information of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Ahmed M. Nagm , Mohamed Torky , Mohammed Mahmoud Abo Ghazala , Hosam Eldin Fawzan Sayed

Digital images are vulnerable to nefarious tampering attacks such as content addition or removal that severely alter the original meaning. It is somehow like a person without protection that is open to various kinds of viruses. Image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Qichao Ying , Hang Zhou , Zhenxing Qian , Sheng Li , Xinpeng Zhang