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Universal Adversarial Perturbations

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Moosavi-Dezfooli, Seyed-Mohsen, Fawzi, Alhussein, Fawzi, Omar, Frossard, Pascal·2017·2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

Given a state-of-the-art deep neural network classifier, we show the existence of a universal (image-agnostic) and very small perturbation vector that causes natural images to be misclassified with high probability. We propose a systematic algorithm for computing universal perturbations, and show that state-of-the-art deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to such perturbations, albeit being quasi-imperceptible to the human eye. We further empirically analyze these universal perturbations and show, in particular, that they generalize very well across neural networks. The surprising existence of universal perturbations reveals important geometric correlations among the high-dimensional decision boundary of classifiers. It further outlines potential security breaches with the existence of single directions in the input space that adversaries can possibly exploit to break a classifier on most natural images.

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Authors
Moosavi-Dezfooli, S.-M., Fawzi, A., Fawzi, O., & Frossard, P.
Affiliations
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • Université de Lyon (FR)
Venue
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Pages
86-94
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2543927648
Cited by
2,680
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 112 · 2025: 238 · 2024: 326 · 2023: 361 · 2022: 350 · 2021: 454 · 2020: 396 · 2019: 277 · 2018: 135 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
104.41
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Nvidia
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Security and Verification in Computing
Keywords
universal adversarial perturbations, adversarial robustness, deep neural network classifier, imperceptible perturbations, decision boundaries, adversarial attacks, security vulnerabilities

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