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We present a Multimodal Backdoor Defense technique TIJO (Trigger Inversion using Joint Optimization). Recent work arXiv:2112.07668 has demonstrated successful backdoor attacks on multimodal models for the Visual Question Answering task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Indranil Sur , Karan Sikka , Matthew Walmer , Kaushik Koneripalli , Anirban Roy , Xiao Lin , Ajay Divakaran , Susmit Jha

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, comparable to state-of-the-art neural networks. Yet, this new type of deep neural network architecture is vulnerable to adversarial attacks limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a competitive alternative to convolutional neural networks for various computer vision applications. Specifically, ViT multi-head attention layers make it possible to embed information globally across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jyotikrishna Dass , Shang Wu , Huihong Shi , Chaojian Li , Zhifan Ye , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown significant promise in computer vision applications. However, their performance in few-shot learning is limited by challenges in refining token-level interactions, struggling with limited training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mohammed Al-Habib , Zuping Zhang , Abdulrahman Noman

Deep learning vision systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains such as healthcare, yet they remain vulnerable to small adversarial patches that can trigger misclassifications. Most existing defenses assume a single patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Aja Khanal , Ahmed Faid , Apurva Narayan

Recent researches show that deep learning model is susceptible to backdoor attacks. Many defenses against backdoor attacks have been proposed. However, existing defense works require high computational overhead or backdoor attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mingfu Xue , Yinghao Wu , Zhiyu Wu , Yushu Zhang , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Vision transformer has demonstrated promising performance on challenging computer vision tasks. However, directly training the vision transformers may yield unstable and sub-optimal results. Recent works propose to improve the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chengyue Gong , Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

A secure fingerprint recognition system must contain both a presentation attack (i.e., spoof) detection and recognition module in order to protect users against unwanted access by malicious users. Traditionally, these tasks would be carried…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Steven A. Grosz , Kanishka P. Wijewardena , Anil K. Jain

Vision Transformers (ViTs) partition input images into uniformly sized patches regardless of their content, resulting in long input sequence lengths for high-resolution images. We present Adaptive Patch Transformers (APT), which addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Rohan Choudhury , JungEun Kim , Jinhyung Park , Eunho Yang , László A. Jeni , Kris M. Kitani

Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cong Liao , Haoti Zhong , Anna Squicciarini , Sencun Zhu , David Miller

Vision Transformer models, such as ViT, Swin Transformer, and Transformer-in-Transformer, have recently gained significant traction in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture the global relation between features which leads to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Shashank Nag , Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Nitin Chandrachoodan , Peter A. Beerel

This paper presents an efficient multi-scale vision Transformer, called ResT, that capably served as a general-purpose backbone for image recognition. Unlike existing Transformer methods, which employ standard Transformer blocks to tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qinglong Zhang , Yubin Yang

Very recently, a variety of vision transformer architectures for dense prediction tasks have been proposed and they show that the design of spatial attention is critical to their success in these tasks. In this work, we revisit the design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xiangxiang Chu , Zhi Tian , Yuqing Wang , Bo Zhang , Haibing Ren , Xiaolin Wei , Huaxia Xia , Chunhua Shen

Model inversion is a widely adopted technique in data-free learning that reconstructs synthetic inputs from a pretrained model through iterative optimization, without access to original training data. Unfortunately, its application to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seongsoo Heo , Dong-Wan Choi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved competitive performance in broad vision tasks. Unfortunately, on popular threat models, naturally trained ViTs are shown to provide no more adversarial robustness than convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has made significant achievements in many real-world applications. But these real-world applications typically can only provide partial observations for making decisions due to occlusions and noisy sensors.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yinbo Yu , Jiajia Liu , Shouqing Li , Kepu Huang , Xudong Feng

The favorable performance of Vision Transformers (ViTs) is often attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA). The MSA enables global interactions at each layer of a ViT model, which is a contrasting feature against Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nam Hyeon-Woo , Kim Yu-Ji , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han , Seong Joon Oh , Tae-Hyun Oh

Backdoor attacks pose a severe threat to deep learning, yet their impact on object detection remains poorly understood compared to image classification. While attacks have been proposed, we identify critical weaknesses in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kealan Dunnett , Reza Arablouei , Dimity Miller , Volkan Dedeoglu , Raja Jurdak