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We introduce the Adversarial Confusion Attack, a new class of threats against multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Unlike jailbreaks or targeted misclassification, the goal is to induce systematic disruption that makes the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jakub Hoscilowicz , Artur Janicki

As visual assistant systems powered by visual language models (VLMs) become more prevalent, concerns over user privacy have grown, particularly for blind and low vision users who may unknowingly capture personal private information in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jeffri Murrugarra-LLerena , Haoran Niu , K. Suzanne Barber , Hal Daumé , Yang Trista Cao , Paola Cascante-Bonilla

The integrity of data visualizations is increasingly threatened by image editing techniques that enable subtle yet deceptive tampering. Through a formative study, we define this challenge and categorize tampering techniques into two primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sicheng Song , Yanjie Zhang , Zixin Chen , Huamin Qu , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

Adversarial attacks have been fairly explored for computer vision and vision-language models. However, the avenue of adversarial attack for the vision language segmentation models (VLSMs) is still under-explored, especially for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Anjila Budathoki , Manish Dhakal

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled accurate image-based geolocation, raising serious concerns about location privacy risks in everyday social media posts. However, current benchmarks remain coarse-grained,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Xiaonan Wang , Bo Shao , Hansaem Kim

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in diverse cross-modal tasks. However, object hallucination, where models produce plausible but inaccurate object descriptions, remains a significant challenge. In contrast to previous work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yiyang Huang , Liang Shi , Yitian Zhang , Yi Xu , Yun Fu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have remarkable abilities in generating multimodal reasoning tasks. However, potential misuse or safety alignment concerns of VLMs have increased significantly due to different categories of attack vectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Md Jueal Mia , M. Hadi Amini

Image manipulation detection and localization have received considerable attention from the research community given the blooming of Generative Models (GMs). Detection methods that follow a passive approach may overfit to specific GMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Filippo Bartolucci , Iacopo Masi , Giuseppe Lisanti

Personalized concept generation by tuning diffusion models with a few images raises potential legal and ethical concerns regarding privacy and intellectual property rights. Researchers attempt to prevent malicious personalization using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Xiaoyue Mi , Fan Tang , You Wu , Juan Cao , Peng Li , Yang Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, their integration of visual inputs introduces expanded attack surfaces, thereby exposing them to novel security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Juan Ren , Mark Dras , Usman Naseem

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, but their high inference cost makes them vulnerable to resource consumption attacks. Prior attacks attempt to extend VLM output sequences by optimizing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Rui Zhang , Zihan Wang , Tianli Yang , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Qingchuan Zhao , Yang Liu , Guowen Xu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a promising ability in image geolocation, but they still lack structured geographic reasoning and the capacity for autonomous self-evolution. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenjie Yang , Yutian Jiang , Yutong Deng , Chenyu Wu

The emergence of deep neural networks capable of revealing high-fidelity scene details from sparse 3D point clouds has raised significant privacy concerns in visual localization involving private maps. Lifting map points to randomly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Heejoon Moon , Jongwoo Lee , Jeonggon Kim , Je Hyeong Hong

This paper aims to improve privacy-preserving visual recognition, an increasingly demanded feature in smart camera applications, by formulating a unique adversarial training framework. The proposed framework explicitly learns a degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Zhenyu Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Zhaowen Wang , Hailin Jin

Geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location where an image was captured using observable visual evidence. Traditional methods achieve impressive results through large-scale training on massive image corpora. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinnao Li , Zijian Chen , Tingzhu Chen , Changbo Wang

3D Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as PointLLM and GPT4Point, have shown strong reasoning and generalization abilities in 3D understanding tasks. However, their adversarial robustness remains largely unexplored. Prior work in 2D VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chao Liu , Ngai-Man Cheung

Large Language Models (LLMs) pose a significant risk of safety misalignment after finetuning, as models can be compromised by both explicitly and implicitly harmful data. Even some seemingly benign data can inadvertently steer a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhanhao Hu , Xiao Huang , Patrick Mendoza , Emad A. Alghamdi , Basel Alomair , Raluca Ada Popa , David Wagner

On-device Vision-Language Models (VLMs) promise data privacy via local execution. However, we show that the architectural shift toward Dynamic High-Resolution preprocessing (e.g., AnyRes) introduces an inherent algorithmic side-channel.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Eyal Hadad , Mordechai Guri

The growing adoption of photorealistic 3D facial avatars, particularly those utilizing efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting representations, introduces new risks of online identity theft, especially in systems that rely on biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dawid Wolkiewicz , Anastasiya Pechko , Przemysław Spurek , Piotr Syga

Deep learning models are found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, as wrong predictions can be caused by small perturbation in input for deep learning models. Most of the existing works of adversarial image generation try to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Wen Sun , Jian Jin , Weisi Lin