Defending Object Detectors against Patch Attacks with Out-of-Distribution Smoothing

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Main Authors: Feng, Ryan, Mangaokar, Neal, Choi, Jihye, Jha, Somesh, Prakash, Atul
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author Feng, Ryan
Mangaokar, Neal
Choi, Jihye
Jha, Somesh
Prakash, Atul
author_facet Feng, Ryan
Mangaokar, Neal
Choi, Jihye
Jha, Somesh
Prakash, Atul
contents Patch attacks against object detectors have been of recent interest due to their being physically realizable and more closely aligned with practical systems. In response to this threat, many new defenses have been proposed that train a patch segmenter model to detect and remove the patch before the image is passed to the downstream model. We unify these approaches with a flexible framework, OODSmoother, which characterizes the properties of approaches that aim to remove adversarial patches. This framework naturally guides us to design 1) a novel adaptive attack that breaks existing patch attack defenses on object detectors, and 2) a novel defense approach SemPrior that takes advantage of semantic priors. Our key insight behind SemPrior is that the existing machine learning-based patch detectors struggle to learn semantic priors and that explicitly incorporating them can improve performance. We find that SemPrior alone provides up to a 40% gain, or up to a 60% gain when combined with existing defenses.
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spellingShingle Defending Object Detectors against Patch Attacks with Out-of-Distribution Smoothing
Feng, Ryan
Mangaokar, Neal
Choi, Jihye
Jha, Somesh
Prakash, Atul
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Patch attacks against object detectors have been of recent interest due to their being physically realizable and more closely aligned with practical systems. In response to this threat, many new defenses have been proposed that train a patch segmenter model to detect and remove the patch before the image is passed to the downstream model. We unify these approaches with a flexible framework, OODSmoother, which characterizes the properties of approaches that aim to remove adversarial patches. This framework naturally guides us to design 1) a novel adaptive attack that breaks existing patch attack defenses on object detectors, and 2) a novel defense approach SemPrior that takes advantage of semantic priors. Our key insight behind SemPrior is that the existing machine learning-based patch detectors struggle to learn semantic priors and that explicitly incorporating them can improve performance. We find that SemPrior alone provides up to a 40% gain, or up to a 60% gain when combined with existing defenses.
title Defending Object Detectors against Patch Attacks with Out-of-Distribution Smoothing
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08989