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Face recognition is a prevailing authentication solution in numerous biometric applications. Physical adversarial attacks, as an important surrogate, can identify the weaknesses of face recognition systems and evaluate their robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xiao Yang , Chang Liu , Longlong Xu , Yikai Wang , Yinpeng Dong , Ning Chen , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Embodied agents operating in complex and uncertain environments face considerable challenges. While some advanced agents handle complex manipulation tasks with proficiency, their success often hinges on extensive training data to develop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yichen Zhu , Zhicai Ou , Xiaofeng Mou , Jian Tang

For reinforcement learning agents to be deployed in high-risk settings, they must achieve a high level of robustness to unfamiliar scenarios. One method for improving robustness is unsupervised environment design (UED), a suite of methods…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to both backdoor and adversarial attacks. In the literature, these two types of attacks are commonly treated as distinct robustness problems and solved separately, since they belong to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhenxing Niu , Yuyao Sun , Qiguang Miao , Rong Jin , Gang Hua

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been successful in solving real-world tasks in domains such as connected and automated vehicles, disease, and job hiring. However, their implications are far-reaching in critical application areas. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yueyang Liu , Yan Huang , Zhipeng Cai

AI systems have found a wide range of real-world applications in recent years. The adoption of edge artificial intelligence, embedding AI directly into edge devices, is rapidly growing. Despite the implementation of guardrails and safety…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Eren Kurshan , Yuan Xie , Paul Franzon

Test-time defenses are used to improve the robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial examples during inference. However, existing methods either require an additional trained classifier to detect and correct the adversarial samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Anurag Singh , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Krikamol Muandet , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur

Robustness to adversarial perturbations has been explored in many areas of computer vision. This robustness is particularly relevant in vision-based reinforcement learning, as the actions of autonomous agents might be safety-critic or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Eugene Bykovets , Yannick Metz , Mennatallah El-Assady , Daniel A. Keim , Joachim M. Buhmann

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network, and the risk they introduce cannot be assessed through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

Many real-world applications, such as city-scale traffic monitoring and control, requires large-scale re-identification. However, previous ReID methods often failed to address two limitations in existing ReID benchmarks, i.e., low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Ye Yuan , Wuyang Chen , Tianlong Chen , Yang Yang , Zhou Ren , Zhangyang Wang , Gang Hua

Modern autonomous driving (AD) systems leverage 3D object detection to perceive foreground objects in 3D environments for subsequent prediction and planning. Visual 3D detection based on RGB cameras provides a cost-effective solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jian Wang , Lijun He , Yixing Yong , Haixia Bi , Fan Li

2D face recognition has been proven insecure for physical adversarial attacks. However, few studies have investigated the possibility of attacking real-world 3D face recognition systems. 3D-printed attacks recently proposed cannot generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yanjie Li , Yiquan Li , Xuelong Dai , Songtao Guo , Bin Xiao

The impact of designing for security of AI is critical for humanity in the AI era. With humans increasingly becoming dependent upon AI, there is a need for neural networks that work reliably, inspite of Adversarial attacks. The vision for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Rajagopal. A , Nirmala. V

Federated learning is vulnerable to various attacks, such as model poisoning and backdoor attacks, even if some existing defense strategies are used. To address this challenge, we propose an attack-adaptive aggregation strategy to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ching Pui Wan , Qifeng Chen

Adversarial examples can cause catastrophic mistakes in Deep Neural Network (DNNs) based vision systems e.g., for classification, segmentation and object detection. The vulnerability of DNNs against such attacks can prove a major roadblock…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Advancing defensive mechanisms against adversarial attacks in generative models is a critical research topic in machine learning. Our study focuses on a specific type of generative models - Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs). Contrary to…

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of face recognition models against physical adversarial patches, which raises security concerns about the deployed face recognition systems. However, it is still challenging to ensure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Zihao Xiao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep learning models are widely employed in safety-critical applications yet remain susceptible to adversarial attacks -- imperceptible perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. Conventional defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Eylon Mizrahi , Raz Lapid , Moshe Sipper

To operate in real-world high-stakes environments, deep learning systems have to endure noises that have been continuously thwarting their robustness. Data-end defense, which improves robustness by operations on input data instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jiakai Wang , Zixin Yin , Pengfei Hu , Aishan Liu , Renshuai Tao , Haotong Qin , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao