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20182025
most citedOn Success and Simplicity: A Second Look at Transferable Targeted Attacks

45 citations · 138 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CR2025

Typographic Attacks in a Multi-Image Setting

Xiaomeng Wang, Zhengyu Zhao, Martha Larson

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are susceptible to typographic attacks, which are misclassifications caused by an attack text that is added to an image. In this paper, we intr…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Physical 3D Adversarial Attacks against Monocular Depth Estimation in Autonomous Driving

Junhao Zheng, Chenhao Lin, Jiahao Sun +3

Deep learning-based monocular depth estimation (MDE), extensively applied in autonomous driving, is known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Previous physical attacks against…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Adversarial Example Soups: Improving Transferability and Stealthiness for Free

Bo Yang, Hengwei Zhang, Jindong Wang +4

Transferable adversarial examples cause practical security risks since they can mislead a target model without knowing its internal knowledge. A conventional recipe for maximizing…

cs.CV2023

Collapse-Aware Triplet Decoupling for Adversarially Robust Image Retrieval

Qiwei Tian, Chenhao Lin, Zhengyu Zhao +2

Adversarial training has achieved substantial performance in defending image retrieval against adversarial examples. However, existing studies in deep metric learning (DML) still s…

cs.CR2023★ 3 cited

Robustness Over Time: Understanding Adversarial Examples' Effectiveness on Longitudinal Versions of Large Language Models

Yugeng Liu, Tianshuo Cong, Zhengyu Zhao +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) undergo continuous updates to improve user experience. However, prior research on the security and safety implications of LLMs has primarily focused on…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Generative Watermarking Against Unauthorized Subject-Driven Image Synthesis

Yihan Ma, Zhengyu Zhao, Xinlei He +3

Large text-to-image models have shown remarkable performance in synthesizing high-quality images. In particular, the subject-driven model makes it possible to personalize the image…

cs.CR2023

Quantization Aware Attack: Enhancing Transferable Adversarial Attacks by Model Quantization

Yulong Yang, Chenhao Lin, Qian Li +6

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) have received increasing attention in resource-constrained scenarios due to their exceptional generalizability. However, their robustness against r…

cs.CR2023★ 6 cited

Image Shortcut Squeezing: Countering Perturbative Availability Poisons with Compression

Zhuoran Liu, Zhengyu Zhao, Martha Larson

Perturbative availability poisons (PAPs) add small changes to images to prevent their use for model training. Current research adopts the belief that practical and effective approa…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Generative Poisoning Using Random Discriminators

Dirren van Vlijmen, Alex Kolmus, Zhuoran Liu +2

We introduce ShortcutGen, a new data poisoning attack that generates sample-dependent, error-minimizing perturbations by learning a generator. The key novelty of ShortcutGen is the…

cs.CR2022★ 7 cited

Towards Good Practices in Evaluating Transfer Adversarial Attacks

Zhengyu Zhao, Hanwei Zhang, Renjue Li +3

Transfer adversarial attacks raise critical security concerns in real-world, black-box scenarios. However, the actual progress of this field is difficult to assess due to two commo…

cs.CR2022

Membership Inference Attacks by Exploiting Loss Trajectory

Yiyong Liu, Zhengyu Zhao, Michael Backes +1

Machine learning models are vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to predict whether or not a particular sample was contained in the target model's…

cs.CV2022

The Importance of Image Interpretation: Patterns of Semantic Misclassification in Real-World Adversarial Images

Zhengyu Zhao, Nga Dang, Martha Larson

Adversarial images are created with the intention of causing an image classifier to produce a misclassification. In this paper, we propose that adversarial images should be evaluat…

cs.LG2022

Level Up with ML Vulnerability Identification: Leveraging Domain Constraints in Feature Space for Robust Android Malware Detection

Hamid Bostani, Zhengyu Zhao, Zhuoran Liu +1

Machine Learning (ML) promises to enhance the efficacy of Android Malware Detection (AMD); however, ML models are vulnerable to realistic evasion attacks--crafting realizable Adver…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Going Grayscale: The Road to Understanding and Improving Unlearnable Examples

Zhuoran Liu, Zhengyu Zhao, Alex Kolmus +4

Recent work has shown that imperceptible perturbations can be applied to craft unlearnable examples (ULEs), i.e. images whose content cannot be used to improve a classifier during…

cs.LG2020★ 45 cited

On Success and Simplicity: A Second Look at Transferable Targeted Attacks

Zhengyu Zhao, Zhuoran Liu, Martha Larson

Achieving transferability of targeted attacks is reputed to be remarkably difficult. Currently, state-of-the-art approaches are resource-intensive because they necessitate training…

cs.CR2020★ 5 cited

Screen Gleaning: A Screen Reading TEMPEST Attack on Mobile Devices Exploiting an Electromagnetic Side Channel

Zhuoran Liu, Niels Samwel, Léo Weissbart +4

We introduce screen gleaning, a TEMPEST attack in which the screen of a mobile device is read without a visual line of sight, revealing sensitive information displayed on the phone…

cs.CV2020★ 12 cited

Adversarial Image Color Transformations in Explicit Color Filter Space

Zhengyu Zhao, Zhuoran Liu, Martha Larson

Deep Neural Networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial images. Conventional attacks strive for indistinguishable adversarial images with strictly restricted perturbat…

cs.CV2020★ 14 cited

Adversarial Color Enhancement: Generating Unrestricted Adversarial Images by Optimizing a Color Filter

Zhengyu Zhao, Zhuoran Liu, Martha Larson

We introduce an approach that enhances images using a color filter in order to create adversarial effects, which fool neural networks into misclassification. Our approach, Adversar…

cs.CV2019★ 10 cited

Towards Large yet Imperceptible Adversarial Image Perturbations with Perceptual Color Distance

Zhengyu Zhao, Zhuoran Liu, Martha Larson

The success of image perturbations that are designed to fool image classifier is assessed in terms of both adversarial effect and visual imperceptibility. The conventional assumpti…

cs.CV2019★ 5 cited

Who's Afraid of Adversarial Queries? The Impact of Image Modifications on Content-based Image Retrieval

Zhuoran Liu, Zhengyu Zhao, Martha Larson

An adversarial query is an image that has been modified to disrupt content-based image retrieval (CBIR) while appearing nearly untouched to the human eye. This paper presents an an…

cs.CV2018★ 22 cited

From Volcano to Toyshop: Adaptive Discriminative Region Discovery for Scene Recognition

Zhengyu Zhao, Martha Larson

As deep learning approaches to scene recognition emerge, they have continued to leverage discriminative regions at multiple scales, building on practices established by conventiona…