8 papers
Confundo: Learning to Generate Robust Poison for Practical RAG Systems
Haoyang Hu, Zhejun Jiang, Yueming Lyu +3
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is increasingly deployed in real-world applications, where its reference-grounded design makes outputs appear trustworthy. This trust has spurr…
DOCR-Inspector: Fine-Grained and Automated Evaluation of Document Parsing with VLM
Qintong Zhang, Junyuan Zhang, Zhifei Ren +8
Document parsing aims to transform unstructured PDF images into semi-structured data, facilitating the digitization and utilization of information in diverse domains. While vision…
Protego: User-Centric Pose-Invariant Privacy Protection Against Face Recognition-Induced Digital Footprint Exposure
Ziling Wang, Shuya Yang, Jialin Lu +1
Face recognition (FR) technologies are increasingly used to power large-scale image retrieval systems, raising serious privacy concerns. Services like Clearview AI and PimEyes allo…
Deep-Learning-Assisted Highly-Accurate COVID-19 Diagnosis on Lung Computed Tomography Images
Yinuo Wang, Juhyun Bae, Ka Ho Chow +2
COVID-19 is a severe and acute viral disease that can cause symptoms consistent with pneumonia in which inflammation is caused in the alveolous regions of the lungs leading to a bu…
AnywhereDoor: Multi-Target Backdoor Attacks on Object Detection
Jialin Lu, Junjie Shan, Ziqi Zhao +1
As object detection becomes integral to many safety-critical applications, understanding its vulnerabilities is essential. Backdoor attacks, in particular, pose a serious threat by…
OCR Hinders RAG: Evaluating the Cascading Impact of OCR on Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Junyuan Zhang, Qintong Zhang, Bin Wang +6
Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge to reduce hallucinations and incorporate up-to-date information without…