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This work presents Z-Mask, a robust and effective strategy to improve the adversarial robustness of convolutional networks against physically-realizable adversarial attacks. The presented defense relies on specific Z-score analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Fabio Brau , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Despite modifying only a small localized input region, adversarial patches can drastically change the prediction of computer vision models. However, prior methods either cannot perform satisfactorily under targeted attack scenarios or fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Subrat Kishore Dutta , Xiao Zhang

The physical attack has been regarded as a kind of threat against real-world computer vision systems. Still, many existing defense methods are only useful for small perturbations attacks and can't detect physical attacks effectively. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 JiaHao Xie , Ye Luo , Jianwei Lu

Adversarial patches in computer vision can be used, to fool deep neural networks and manipulate their decision-making process. One of the most prominent examples of adversarial patches are evasion attacks for object detectors. By covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jens Bayer , Stefan Becker , David Münch , Michael Arens

DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses great security concerns for security-critical systems. In this paper, a novel adaptive-patch-based physical attack (AP-PA) framework is proposed, which aims to generate adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jiawei Lian , Shaohui Mei , Shun Zhang , Mingyang Ma

Many deep neural networks are susceptible to minute perturbations of images that have been carefully crafted to cause misclassification. Ideally, a robust classifier would be immune to small variations in input images, and a number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Eashan Adhikarla , Dan Luo , Brian D. Davison

Recent works have empirically shown that there exist adversarial examples that can be hidden from neural network interpretability (namely, making network interpretation maps visually similar), or interpretability is itself susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Akhilan Boopathy , Sijia Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Cynthia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiyu Chang , Luca Daniel

Deep learning models are being integrated into a wide range of high-impact, security-critical systems, from self-driving cars to medical diagnosis. However, recent research has demonstrated that many of these deep learning architectures are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Scott Freitas , Shang-Tse Chen , Zijie J. Wang , Duen Horng Chau

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can fool them by adding minuscule perturbations to the input images. The robustness of existing defenses suffers greatly under white-box attack settings, where an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aamir Mustafa , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Roland Goecke , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

This paper presents a DNN bottleneck reinforcement scheme to alleviate the vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) against adversarial attacks. Typical DNN classifiers encode the input image into a compressed latent representation more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Wenqing Liu , Miaojing Shi , Teddy Furon , Li Li

Deep Learning models are highly susceptible to adversarial manipulations that can lead to catastrophic consequences. One of the most effective methods to defend against such disturbances is adversarial training but at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Samuel Henrique Silva , Arun Das , Ian Scarff , Peyman Najafirad

This chapter introduces the concept of adversarial attacks on image classification models built on convolutional neural networks (CNN). CNNs are very popular deep-learning models which are used in image classification tasks. However, very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jaydip Sen , Subhasis Dasgupta

Although deep networks have shown vulnerability to evasion attacks, such attacks have usually unrealistic requirements. Recent literature discussed the possibility to remove or not some of these requirements. This paper contributes to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Pol Labarbarie , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Stéphane Herbin , Milad Leyli-Abadi

Physical adversarial attacks threaten to fool object detection systems, but reproducible research on the real-world effectiveness of physical patches and how to defend against them requires a publicly available benchmark dataset. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Anneliese Braunegg , Amartya Chakraborty , Michael Krumdick , Nicole Lape , Sara Leary , Keith Manville , Elizabeth Merkhofer , Laura Strickhart , Matthew Walmer

This paper presents a novel reconstruction method that leverages Diffusion Models to protect machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks, all without requiring any modifications to the classifiers themselves. The susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hondamunige Prasanna Silva , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

We present Vax-a-Net; a technique for immunizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) against adversarial patch attacks (APAs). APAs insert visually overt, local regions (patches) into an image to induce misclassification. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 T. Gittings , S. Schneider , J. Collomosse

We propose to generate adversarial samples by modifying activations of upper layers encoding semantically meaningful concepts. The original sample is shifted towards a target sample, yielding an adversarial sample, by using the modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes Schneider , Giovanni Apruzzese

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi

The study of security in machine learning mainly focuses on downstream task-specific attacks, where the adversarial example is obtained by optimizing a loss function specific to the downstream task. At the same time, it has become standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Brian Pulfer , Yury Belousov , Vitaliy Kinakh , Teddy Furon , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Nowadays, Deep Learning as a service can be deployed in Internet of Things (IoT) to provide smart services and sensor data processing. However, recent research has revealed that some Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be easily misled by adding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ling Wang , Cheng Zhang , Zejian Luo , Chenguang Liu , Jie Liu , Xi Zheng , Athanasios Vasilakos