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We study the problem of defending deep neural network approaches for image classification from physically realizable attacks. First, we demonstrate that the two most scalable and effective methods for learning robust models, adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tong Wu , Liang Tong , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Adversarial patch attacks pose a practical threat to deep learning models by forcing targeted misclassifications through localized perturbations, often realized in the physical world. Existing defenses typically assume prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ayushi Mehrotra , Derek Peng , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Object detection has found extensive applications in various tasks, but it is also susceptible to adversarial patch attacks. The ideal defense should be effective, efficient, easy to deploy, and capable of withstanding adaptive attacks. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jianan Feng , Jiachun Li , Changqing Miao , Jianjun Huang , Wei You , Wenchang Shi , Bin Liang

State-of-the-art object detectors are vulnerable to localized patch hiding attacks, where an adversary introduces a small adversarial patch to make detectors miss the detection of salient objects. The patch attacker can carry out a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Adversarial patch attacks present a significant threat to real-world object detectors due to their practical feasibility. Existing defense methods, which rely on attack data or prior knowledge, struggle to effectively address a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lihua Jing , Rui Wang , Wenqi Ren , Xin Dong , Cong Zou

Adversarial patch-based attacks aim to fool a neural network with an intentionally generated noise, which is concentrated in a particular region of an input image. In this work, we perform an in-depth analysis of different patch generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Svetlana Pavlitskaya , Jonas Hendl , Sebastian Kleim , Leopold Müller , Fabian Wylczoch , J. Marius Zöllner

Object detection models are critical components of automated systems, such as autonomous vehicles and perception-based robots, but their sensitivity to adversarial attacks poses a serious security risk. Progress in defending these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Alexis Winter , Jean-Vincent Martini , Romaric Audigier , Angelique Loesch , Bertrand Luvison

Recent studies have shown that Adversarial Patches (APs) can effectively manipulate object detection models. However, the conspicuous patterns often associated with these patches tend to attract human attention, posing a significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zheng Zhou , Hongbo Zhao , Ju Liu , Qiaosheng Zhang , Liwei Geng , Shuchang Lyu , Wenquan Feng

Adversarial training (AT) is considered to be one of the most reliable defenses against adversarial attacks. However, models trained with AT sacrifice standard accuracy and do not generalize well to novel attacks. Recent works show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Chun Pong Lau , Jiang Liu , Hossein Souri , Wei-An Lin , Soheil Feizi , Rama Chellappa

Object detectors have emerged as an indispensable module in modern computer vision systems. In this work, we propose DPatch -- a black-box adversarial-patch-based attack towards mainstream object detectors (i.e. Faster R-CNN and YOLO).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Xin Liu , Huanrui Yang , Ziwei Liu , Linghao Song , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Adversarial examples present significant challenges to the security of Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications. Specifically, there are patch-based and texture-based attacks that are usually used to craft physical-world adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wei Zhang , Xinyu Chang , Xiao Li , Yiming Zhu , Xiaolin Hu

We consider universal adversarial patches for faces -- small visual elements whose addition to a face image reliably destroys the performance of face detectors. Unlike previous work that mostly focused on the algorithmic design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Xiao Yang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Jun Zhu

Adversarial perturbations are a useful way to expose vulnerabilities in object detectors. Existing perturbation methods are frequently white-box, architecture specific and use a loss function. More importantly, while they are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Melane Navaratnarajah , David A. Kelly , Hana Chockler

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks and common corruptions, which undermine their robustness. In order to enhance model resilience against such challenges, Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a prominent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tejaswini Medi , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Adversarial patch is an important form of real-world adversarial attack that brings serious risks to the robustness of deep neural networks. Previous methods generate adversarial patches by either optimizing their perturbation values while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xingxing Wei , Ying Guo , Jie Yu , Bo Zhang

Adversarial Training (AT), which is commonly accepted as one of the most effective approaches defending against adversarial examples, can largely harm the standard performance, thus has limited usefulness on industrial-scale production and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Ranjie Duan , Yao Zhu , Gege Qi , Shaokai Ye , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

Notwithstanding the prominent performance achieved in various applications, point cloud recognition models have often suffered from natural corruptions and adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we delve into boosting the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Hang Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Kui Zhang , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Patch-based physical attacks have increasingly aroused concerns. However, most existing methods focus on obscuring targets captured on the ground, and some of these methods are simply extended to deceive aerial detectors. They smear the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jiawei Lian , Xiaofei Wang , Yuru Su , Mingyang Ma , Shaohui Mei

The adversarial patch attack aims to fool image classifiers within a bounded, contiguous region of arbitrary changes, posing a real threat to computer vision systems (e.g., autonomous driving, content moderation, biometric authentication,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Di Yang , Yihao Huang , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Ming Hu , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

Adversarial patch attacks pose a severe threat to deep neural networks, yet most existing approaches rely on unrealistic white-box assumptions, untargeted objectives, or produce visually conspicuous patches that limit real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Roie Kazoom , Alon Goldberg , Hodaya Cohen , Ofer Hadar