English
Related papers

Related papers: A Versatile Framework for Designing Group-Sparse A…

200 papers

We study the unique, less-well understood problem of generating sparse adversarial samples simply by observing the score-based replies to model queries. Sparse attacks aim to discover a minimum number-the l0 bounded-perturbations to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Accurate and robust classification of diseases is important for proper diagnosis and treatment. However, medical datasets often face challenges related to limited sample sizes and inherent imbalanced distributions, due to difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shuhan Li , Yi Lin , Hao Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Adversarial attacks of deep neural networks have been intensively studied on image, audio, natural language, patch, and pixel classification tasks. Nevertheless, as a typical, while important real-world application, the adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Qing Guo , Xiaofei Xie , Felix Juefei-Xu , Lei Ma , Zhongguo Li , Wanli Xue , Wei Feng , Yang Liu

Anomaly segmentation aims to identify Out-of-Distribution (OoD) anomalous objects within images. Existing pixel-wise methods typically assign anomaly scores individually and employ a global thresholding strategy to segment anomalies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuxing Liu , Ji Zhang , Zhou Xuchuan , Jingzhong Xiao , Huimin Yang , Jiaxin Zhong

Learning interpretable multimodal representations inherently relies on uncovering the conditional dependencies between heterogeneous features. However, sparse graph estimation techniques, such as Graphical Lasso (GLasso), to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fei Wang , Yutong Zhang , Xiong Wang

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 introduce a feature scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme (either targeted or non-targeted) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haichao Zhang , Jianyu Wang

We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-30 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll

Deep neural networks are powerful and popular learning models that achieve state-of-the-art pattern recognition performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. However, these networks have also been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

This paper introduces stochastic sparse adversarial attacks (SSAA), standing as simple, fast and purely noise-based targeted and untargeted attacks of neural network classifiers (NNC). SSAA offer new examples of sparse (or $L_0$) attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Manon Césaire , Lucas Schott , Hatem Hajri , Sylvain Lamprier , Patrick Gallinari

State-of-the-art defense mechanisms are typically evaluated in the context of white-box attacks, which is not realistic, as it assumes the attacker can access the gradients of the target network. To protect against this scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Joana C. Costa , Tiago Roxo , Hugo Proença , Pedro R. M. Inácio

This work investigates efficient score-based black-box adversarial attacks that achieve a high Attack Success Rate (ASR) and good generalization ability. We propose a novel attack framework, termed DifAttack++, which operates in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jun Liu , Jiantao Zhou , Jiandian Zeng , Jinyu Tian , Isao Echizen

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The amount of these perturbations are generally quantified using $L_p$ metrics, such as $L_0$, $L_2$ and $L_\infty$. However, even when the measured perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ayberk Aydin , Alptekin Temizel

Machine learning models have demonstrated vulnerability to adversarial attacks, more specifically misclassification of adversarial examples. In this paper, we investigate an attack-agnostic defense against adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Alsharif Abuadbba , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler

Deep neural networks obtain state-of-the-art performance on a series of tasks. However, they are easily fooled by adding a small adversarial perturbation to input. The perturbation is often human imperceptible on image data. We observe a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Puyudi Yang , Jianbo Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jane-Ling Wang , Michael I. Jordan

Video classification systems based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in accurately verifying video content. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Duoxun Tang , Yuxin Cao , Xi Xiao , Derui Wang , Sheng Wen , Tianqing Zhu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to small input perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Inspired by the fact that these adversaries are constructed by iteratively minimizing the confidence of a network for the true class label, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Motasem Alfarra , Juan C. Pérez , Ali Thabet , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Bernard Ghanem

Most adversarial attacks on point clouds perturb a large number of points, causing widespread geometric changes and limiting applicability in real-world scenarios. While recent works explore sparse attacks by modifying only a few points,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Keke Tang , Tianyu Hao , Xiaofei Wang , Weilong Peng , Denghui Zhang , Peican Zhu , Zhihong Tian

Synthesizing a subject-specific pathology-free image from a pathological image is valuable for algorithm development and clinical practice. In recent years, several approaches based on the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) have achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Yunlong Zhang , Xin Lin , Yihong Zhuang , LiyanSun , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Guisheng Wang , Lin Yang , Yizhou Yu

Adversarial robustness assessment for video recognition models has raised concerns owing to their wide applications on safety-critical tasks. Compared with images, videos have much high dimension, which brings huge computational costs when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Wei Xingxing , Wang Songping , Yan Huanqian