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The increasing importance of both deep neural networks (DNNs) and cloud services for training them means that bad actors have more incentive and opportunity to insert backdoors to alter the behavior of trained models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attack, which does not affect the network's performance on clean data but would manipulate the network behavior once a trigger pattern is added. Existing defense methods have greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Min Liu , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Xiangyu Yue

With the advancement of AI generative techniques, Deepfake faces have become incredibly realistic and nearly indistinguishable to the human eye. To counter this, Deepfake detectors have been developed as reliable tools for assessing face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shuaiwei Yuan , Junyu Dong , Yuezun Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made tremendous progress in the past ten years and have been applied in various critical applications. However, recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xinrui Liu , Yajie Wang , Yu-an Tan , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

Data poisoning attacks compromise the integrity of machine-learning models by introducing malicious training samples to influence the results during test time. In this work, we investigate backdoor data poisoning attack on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mahesh Subedar , Nilesh Ahuja , Ranganath Krishnan , Ibrahima J. Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

Machine learning models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks, in which an attacker maliciously modifies the training set to change the prediction of a learned model. In a trigger-less attack, the attacker can modify the training set but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks during training. The model corrupted in this way functions normally, but when triggered by certain patterns in the input, produces a predefined target label. Existing defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Wanlun Ma , Derui Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang

Backdoor attack injects malicious behavior to models such that inputs embedded with triggers are misclassified to a target label desired by the attacker. However, natural features may behave like triggers, causing misclassification once…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yingqi Liu , Guangyu Shen , Guanhong Tao , Zhenting Wang , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Backdoor attack introduces artificial vulnerabilities into the model by poisoning a subset of the training data via injecting triggers and modifying labels. Various trigger design strategies have been explored to attack text classifiers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zichao Li , Dheeraj Mekala , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Deep learning has become an integral part of various computer vision systems in recent years due to its outstanding achievements for object recognition, facial recognition, and scene understanding. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nima Mirnateghi , Syed Afaq Ali Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun

Backdoor attacks become a significant security concern for deep neural networks in recent years. An image classification model can be compromised if malicious backdoors are injected into it. This corruption will cause the model to function…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hongwei Zhang , Xiaoyin Xu , Dongsheng An , Xianfeng Gu , Min Zhang

The ubiquity of deep neural networks (DNNs), cloud-based training, and transfer learning is giving rise to a new cybersecurity frontier in which unsecure DNNs have `structural malware' (i.e., compromised weights and activation pathways). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 N. Benjamin Erichson , Dane Taylor , Qixuan Wu , Michael W. Mahoney

Face recognition systems are increasingly used in biometric security for convenience and effectiveness. However, they remain vulnerable to spoofing attacks, where attackers use photos, videos, or masks to impersonate legitimate users. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Arman Keresh , Pakizar Shamoi

Text-to-Image (T2I) models generate high-quality images but are vulnerable to malicious backdoor attacks that inject harmful biases (e.g., trigger-activated gender or racial stereotypes). Existing debiasing methods, often designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hongyi Cai , Mohammad Mahdinur Rahman , Mingkang Dong , Muxin Pu , Moqyad Alqaily , Jie Li , Xinfeng Li , Jialie Shen , Meikang Qiu , Qingsong Wen

Backdoor attacks threaten Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Towards stealthiness, researchers propose clean-label backdoor attacks, which require the adversaries not to alter the labels of the poisoned training datasets. Clean-label settings…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Nan Luo , Yuanzhang Li , Yajie Wang , Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Quanxin Zhang

Face Recognition Systems that operate in unconstrained environments capture images under varying conditions,such as inconsistent lighting, or diverse face poses. These challenges require including a Face Detection module that regresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Quentin Le Roux , Yannick Teglia , Teddy Furon , Philippe Loubet-Moundi

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to deep neural networks, particularly as recent advancements have led to increasingly subtle implantation, making the defense more challenging. Existing defense mechanisms typically rely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yukai Xu , Yujie Gu , Kouichi Sakurai

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in high-security applications such as for biometric verification at border controls. Despite their high accuracy on pristine data, it is well-known that digital manipulations, such as face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mathias Ibsen , Lázaro J. González-Soler , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Biometric data is considered to be very private and highly sensitive. As such, many methods for biometric template protection were considered over the years -- from biohashing and specially crafted feature extraction procedures, to the use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Eliron Rahimi , Margarita Osadchy , Orr Dunkelman