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The transferability of adversarial perturbations between image models has been extensively studied. In this case, an attack is generated from a known surrogate \eg, the ImageNet trained model, and transferred to change the decision of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Muzammal Naseer , Ahmad Mahmood , Salman Khan , Fahad Khan

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks, raising concerns about their deployment in safety-critical applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Lin Luo , Xin Wang , Bojia Zi , Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Multimodal Language Models (MMLMs) typically undergo post-training alignment to prevent harmful content generation. However, these alignment stages focus primarily on the assistant role, leaving the user role unaligned, and stick to a fixed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Erfan Shayegani , G M Shahariar , Sara Abdali , Lei Yu , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Yue Dong

Although deep-learning based video recognition models have achieved remarkable success, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are generated by adding human-imperceptible perturbations on clean video samples. As indicated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have witnessed a surge in both research and real-world applications. However, as they are becoming increasingly prevalent, ensuring their robustness against adversarial attacks is paramount. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rishika Bhagwatkar , Shravan Nayak , Reza Bayat , Alexis Roger , Daniel Z Kaplan , Pouya Bashivan , Irina Rish

Adversarial face examples possess two critical properties: Visual Quality and Transferability. However, existing approaches rarely address these properties simultaneously, leading to subpar results. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Fengfan Zhou , Hefei Ling , Yuxuan Shi , Jiazhong Chen , Ping Li

Adversarial attacks are a central tool for probing the robustness of modern vision models, yet most methods optimize perturbations directly in pixel space under $\ell_\infty$ or $\ell_2$ constraints. While effective in white-box settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Eitan Shaar , Ariel Shaulov , Yalcin Tur , Gal Chechik , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

Strong adversarial examples are crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks. However, the performance of popular attacks is usually sensitive, for instance, to minor image transformations, stemming from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhengwei Fang , Rui Wang , Tao Huang , Liping Jing

Vision-language models (VLMs) rely on a shared visual-textual representation space to perform tasks such as zero-shot classification, image captioning, and visual question answering (VQA). While this shared space enables strong cross-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chengyin Hu , Jiaju Han , Xuemeng Sun , Qike Zhang , Yiwei Wei , Ang Li , Chunlei Meng , Xiang Chen , Jiahuan Long

Deep neural networks were significantly vulnerable to adversarial examples manipulated by malicious tiny perturbations. Although most conventional adversarial attacks ensured the visual imperceptibility between adversarial examples and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shuai Li , Xiaoyu Jiang , Xiaoguang Ma

The textual adversarial attack refers to an attack method in which the attacker adds imperceptible perturbations to the original texts by elaborate design so that the NLP (natural language processing) model produces false judgments. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Cao , Dolma Dawa , Nuo Qun , Trashi Nyima

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to learn complex reasoning from long-horizon human interactions. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have driven recent progress, current training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoyuan Li , Rui Liu , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Deep learning drives major advances in autonomous driving (AD), where object detectors are central to perception. However, adversarial attacks pose significant threats to the reliability and safety of these systems, with physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihui Zhu , Ziqi Zhou , Yichen Wang , Lulu Xue , Minghui Li , Shengshan Hu

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful generalist policies, their severe vulnerability to adversarial patches significantly hinders their deployment in safety-critical domains. Moreover, existing patch attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiyuan Fu , Kaixun Jiang , Jingkai Jia , Zhaoyu Chen , Xueyao Chen , Lingyi Hong , Shuyong Gao , Chenzhi Tan , Dingkang Yang , Wenqiang Zhang

Medical visual question answering (VQA) bridges the gap between visual information and clinical decision-making, enabling doctors to extract understanding from clinical images and videos. In particular, surgical VQA can enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Long Bai , Guankun Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , An Wang , Hongliang Ren

Adversarial attacks can mislead deep neural networks (DNNs) by adding imperceptible perturbations to benign examples. The attack transferability enables adversarial examples to attack black-box DNNs with unknown architectures or parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kaisheng Liang , Bin Xiao

Adversarial machine learning (AML) studies attacks that can fool machine learning algorithms into generating incorrect outcomes as well as the defenses against worst-case attacks to strengthen model robustness. Specifically for image…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yuzhe You , Jarvis Tse , Jian Zhao

Deep neural networks have proven to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks in the form of adding specific perturbations on images to make wrong outputs. Designing stronger adversarial attack methods can help more reliably evaluate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jialiang Sun , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaoqian Chen

Recently, a multitude of methods for image-to-image translation have demonstrated impressive results on problems such as multi-domain or multi-attribute transfer. The vast majority of such works leverages the strengths of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 James Oldfield , Yannis Panagakis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou

Despite recent success on various tasks, deep learning techniques still perform poorly on adversarial examples with small perturbations. While optimization-based methods for adversarial attacks are well-explored in the field of computer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Lifan Yuan , Yichi Zhang , Yangyi Chen , Wei Wei