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20202025
most citedA Systematic Review of Robustness in Deep Learning for Computer Vision: Mind the gap?

30 citations · 42 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2025

Backdoors in DRL: Four Environments Focusing on In-distribution Triggers

Chace Ashcraft, Ted Staley, Josh Carney +4

Backdoor attacks, or trojans, pose a security risk by concealing undesirable behavior in deep neural network models. Open-source neural networks are downloaded from the internet da…

cs.LG2025

Investigating the Treacherous Turn in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Chace Ashcraft, Kiran Karra, Josh Carney +1

The Treacherous Turn refers to the scenario where an artificial intelligence (AI) agent subtly, and perhaps covertly, learns to perform a behavior that benefits itself but is deeme…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Detecting Dataset Bias in Medical AI: A Generalized and Modality-Agnostic Auditing Framework

Nathan Drenkow, Mitchell Pavlak, Keith Harrigian +5

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now firmly at the center of evidence-based medicine. Despite many success stories that edge the path of AI's rise in healthcare, there are comparabl…

cs.CV2025

A Causal Framework for Aligning Image Quality Metrics and Deep Neural Network Robustness

Nathan Drenkow, Mathias Unberath

Image quality plays an important role in the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) that have been widely shown to exhibit sensitivity to changes in imaging conditions. Convent…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Towards Virtual Clinical Trials of Radiology AI with Conditional Generative Modeling

Benjamin D. Killeen, Bohua Wan, Aditya V. Kulkarni +4

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform healthcare by enabling personalized and efficient care through data-driven insights. Although radiology is at the forefront of A…

cs.CV2024

Causality-Driven Audits of Model Robustness

Nathan Drenkow, William Paul, Chris Ribaudo +1

Robustness audits of deep neural networks (DNN) provide a means to uncover model sensitivities to the challenging real-world imaging conditions that significantly degrade DNN perfo…

cs.CV2024

From Generalization to Precision: Exploring SAM for Tool Segmentation in Surgical Environments

Kanyifeechukwu J. Oguine, Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul, Nathan Drenkow +1

Purpose: Accurate tool segmentation is essential in computer-aided procedures. However, this task conveys challenges due to artifacts' presence and the limited training data in med…

cs.CV2023

RobustCLEVR: A Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating Robustness in Object-centric Learning

Nathan Drenkow, Mathias Unberath

Object-centric representation learning offers the potential to overcome limitations of image-level representations by explicitly parsing image scenes into their constituent compone…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Data AUDIT: Identifying Attribute Utility- and Detectability-Induced Bias in Task Models

Mitchell Pavlak, Nathan Drenkow, Nicholas Petrick +2

To safely deploy deep learning-based computer vision models for computer-aided detection and diagnosis, we must ensure that they are robust and reliable. Towards that goal, algorit…

cs.CV2022

Context-Adaptive Deep Neural Networks via Bridge-Mode Connectivity

Nathan Drenkow, Alvin Tan, Chace Ashcraft +1

The deployment of machine learning models in safety-critical applications comes with the expectation that such models will perform well over a range of contexts (e.g., a vision mod…

cs.CV2021★ 30 cited

A Systematic Review of Robustness in Deep Learning for Computer Vision: Mind the gap?

Nathan Drenkow, Numair Sani, Ilya Shpitser +1

Deep neural networks for computer vision are deployed in increasingly safety-critical and socially-impactful applications, motivating the need to close the gap in model performance…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

On the Sins of Image Synthesis Loss for Self-supervised Depth Estimation

Zhaoshuo Li, Nathan Drenkow, Hao Ding +5

Scene depth estimation from stereo and monocular imagery is critical for extracting 3D information for downstream tasks such as scene understanding. Recently, learning-based method…

cs.CV2021

Patch Attack Invariance: How Sensitive are Patch Attacks to 3D Pose?

Max Lennon, Nathan Drenkow, Philippe Burlina

Perturbation-based attacks, while not physically realizable, have been the main emphasis of adversarial machine learning (ML) research. Patch-based attacks by contrast are physical…

cs.CV2020

Attack Agnostic Detection of Adversarial Examples via Random Subspace Analysis

Nathan Drenkow, Neil Fendley, Philippe Burlina

Whilst adversarial attack detection has received considerable attention, it remains a fundamentally challenging problem from two perspectives. First, while threat models can be wel…

cs.CV2020★ 5 cited

Revisiting Stereo Depth Estimation From a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers

Zhaoshuo Li, Xingtong Liu, Nathan Drenkow +4

Stereo depth estimation relies on optimal correspondence matching between pixels on epipolar lines in the left and right images to infer depth. In this work, we revisit the problem…