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Automated vulnerability detection in critical-infrastructure software confronts a fundamental barrier: industrial software is routinely deployed as stripped, symbol-free binaries that deprive conventional Software Composition Analysis of…

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We introduce SWAN (Semantic Watermarking with Abstract Meaning Representation), a novel framework that embeds watermark signatures into the semantic structure of a sentence using Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR). In contrast to…

Despite the tremendous success, deep neural networks are exposed to serious IP infringement risks. Given a target deep model, if the attacker knows its full information, it can be easily stolen by fine-tuning. Even if only its output is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Weiming Zhang , Huamin Feng , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Neural network applications have become popular in both enterprise and personal settings. Network solutions are tuned meticulously for each task, and designs that can robustly resolve queries end up in high demand. As the commercial value…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Henrique Teles Maia , Chang Xiao , Dingzeyu Li , Eitan Grinspun , Changxi Zheng

We study protecting a user's data (images in this work) against a learner's unauthorized use in training neural networks. It is especially challenging when the user's data is only a tiny percentage of the learner's complete training set. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Zihang Zou , Boqing Gong , Liqiang Wang

Real-world blind denoising poses a unique image restoration challenge due to the non-deterministic nature of the underlying noise distribution. Prevalent discriminative networks trained on synthetic noise models have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Mehmet Yamac , Esin Guldogan , Moncef Gabbouj

In this paper, we present DSN (Deep Serial Number), a simple yet effective watermarking algorithm designed specifically for deep neural networks (DNNs). Unlike traditional methods that incorporate identification signals into DNNs, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ruixiang Tang , Mengnan Du , Xia Hu

Tamper-resistance is a fundamental software security research area. Many approaches have been proposed to thwart specific procedures of tampering, e.g., obfuscation and self-checksumming. However, to our best knowledge, none of them can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

In this paper we show that cryptographic backdoors in a neural network (NN) can be highly effective in two directions, namely mounting the attacks as well as in presenting the defenses as well. On the attack side, a carefully planted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Anh Tu Ngo , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Subhamoy Maitra

While financially advantageous, outsourcing key steps, such as testing, to potentially untrusted Outsourced Assembly and Test (OSAT) companies may pose a risk of compromising on-chip assets. Obfuscation of scan chains is a technique that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Lilas Alrahis , Muhammad Yasin , Nimisha Limaye , Hani Saleh , Baker Mohammad , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Backdoor-based watermarking schemes were proposed to protect the intellectual property of artificial intelligence models, especially deep neural networks, under the black-box setting. Compared with ordinary backdoors, backdoor-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Fangqi Li , Shilin Wang , Yun Zhu

Neural implicit representations have had a significant impact on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) by enabling robots to build continuous, differentiable, and high-fidelity 3D maps from sensor data. However, as the scale and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yulun Tian , Hanwen Cao , Sunghwan Kim , Nikolay Atanasov

Malicious architecture extraction has been emerging as a crucial concern for deep neural network (DNN) security. As a defense, architecture obfuscation is proposed to remap the victim DNN to a different architecture. Nonetheless, we observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Tong Zhou , Shaolei Ren , Xiaolin Xu

The principal rank-one (RO) components of an image represent the self-similarity of the image, which is an important property for image restoration. However, the RO components of a corrupted image could be decimated by the procedure of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Shangqi Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

Watermarking is a technique to help identify the source of data points, which can be used to help prevent the misuse of protected datasets. Existing methods on code watermarking, leveraging the idea from the backdoor research, embed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuan Xiao , Yuchen Chen , Shiqing Ma , Haocheng Huang , Chunrong Fang , Yanwei Chen , Weisong Sun , Yunfeng Zhu , Xiaofang Zhang , Zhenyu Chen

In neural network (NN) security, safeguarding model integrity and resilience against adversarial attacks has become paramount. This study investigates the application of stochastic computing (SC) as a novel mechanism to fortify NN models.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Faeze S. Banitaba , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

Purpose: Recently, several attempts were conducted to transfer deep learning to medical image reconstruction. An increasingly number of publications follow the concept of embedding the CT reconstruction as a known operator into a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Christopher Syben , Markus Michen , Bernhard Stimpel , Stephan Seitz , Stefan Ploner , Andreas K. Maier

Modern FFT/NTT analytics, coded computation, and privacy-preserving ML interface routinely move polynomial frames across NICs, storage, and accelerators. However, even rare silent data corruption (SDC) can flip a few ring coefficients and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Baigang Chen , Dongfang Zhao

Deep learning techniques are one of the most significant elements of any Artificial Intelligence (AI) services. Recently, these Machine Learning (ML) methods, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), presented exceptional achievement in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mohammad Mehdi Yadollahi , Farzaneh Shoeleh , Sajjad Dadkhah , Ali A. Ghorbani