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Neural Image Classifiers are effective but inherently hard to interpret and susceptible to adversarial attacks. Solutions to both problems exist, among others, in the form of counterfactual examples generation to enhance explainability or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Rafael Bischof , Florian Scheidegger , Michael A. Kraus , A. Cristiano I. Malossi

Counterfactuals are a popular framework for interpreting machine learning predictions. These what if explanations are notoriously challenging to create for computer vision models: standard gradient-based methods are prone to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jeremy Goldwasser , Giles Hooker

Auto-encoding generative adversarial networks (GANs) combine the standard GAN algorithm, which discriminates between real and model-generated data, with a reconstruction loss given by an auto-encoder. Such models aim to prevent mode…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , David Warde-Farley , Shakir Mohamed

Adversarial attacks present a significant security risk to image recognition tasks. Defending against these attacks in a real-life setting can be compared to the way antivirus software works, with a key consideration being how well the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai

We propose a concept-based adversarial attack framework that extends beyond single-image perturbations by adopting a probabilistic perspective. Rather than modifying a single image, our method operates on an entire concept - represented by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Andi Zhang , Xuan Ding , Steven McDonagh , Samuel Kaski

Representation learning of textual networks poses a significant challenge as it involves capturing amalgamated information from two modalities: (i) underlying network structure, and (ii) node textual attributes. For this, most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Tony Gracious , Ambedkar Dukkipati

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are fundamental to many generative modelling applications, they suffer from numerous issues. In this work, we propose a principled framework to simultaneously mitigate two fundamental issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kwot Sin Lee , Ngoc-Trung Tran , Ngai-Man Cheung

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been successfully applied to the artificial generation of image data. In terms of text data, much has been done on the artificial generation of natural language from a single corpus. We consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Baiyang Wang , Diego Klabjan

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein they are fooled into reconstructing a chosen target image. However, how to defend against such attacks remains an open problem. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-01 Matthew Willetts , Alexander Camuto , Tom Rainforth , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Images synthesized by powerful generative adversarial network (GAN) based methods have drawn moral and privacy concerns. Although image forensic models have reached great performance in detecting fake images from real ones, these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Dongze Li , Wei Wang , Hongxing Fan , Jing Dong

In recent years, the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence technology has significantly lowered the barrier to creating high-quality fake images, posing a serious challenge to information authenticity and credibility.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haifeng Zhang , Qinghui He , Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Bin Xiao

Due to their powerful image generation capabilities, diffusion-based adversarial example generation methods through image editing are rapidly gaining popularity. However, due to reliance on the discriminative capability of the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gaozheng Pei , Ke Ma , Dongpeng Zhang , Chengzhi Sun , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

Adversarial perturbations of normal images are usually imperceptible to humans, but they can seriously confuse state-of-the-art machine learning models. What makes them so special in the eyes of image classifiers? In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yang Song , Taesup Kim , Sebastian Nowozin , Stefano Ermon , Nate Kushman

Recent studies on AI security have highlighted the vulnerability of Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models to subtle yet intentionally designed perturbations in images and texts. Investigating multimodal systems' robustness via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Haonan Zheng , Wen Jiang , Xinyang Deng , Wenrui Li

Modern self-driving perception systems have been shown to improve upon processing complementary inputs such as LiDAR with images. In isolation, 2D images have been found to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Yet, there have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 James Tu , Huichen Li , Xinchen Yan , Mengye Ren , Yun Chen , Ming Liang , Eilyan Bitar , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proved to reach super-human performance in visual recognition tasks. However, CNNs can easily be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., maliciously-crafted images that force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Federico Nesti , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Despite the success on few-shot learning problems, most meta-learned models only focus on achieving good performance on clean examples and thus easily break down when given adversarially perturbed samples. While some recent works have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Minseon Kim , Hyeonjeong Ha , Dong Bok Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

The progress in generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), opened new possibilities for image generation but raised concerns about potential malicious uses, especially in sensitive areas like medical imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Giovanni Pasqualino , Luca Guarnera , Alessandro Ortis , Sebastiano Battiato

Image classification currently faces significant security challenges due to adversarial attacks, which consist of intentional alterations designed to deceive classification models based on artificial intelligence. This article explores an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh