Defending Against Physical Adversarial Patch Attacks on Infrared Human Detection

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Autori principali: Strack, Lukas, Waseda, Futa, Nguyen, Huy H., Zheng, Yinqiang, Echizen, Isao
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Strack, Lukas
Waseda, Futa
Nguyen, Huy H.
Zheng, Yinqiang
Echizen, Isao
author_facet Strack, Lukas
Waseda, Futa
Nguyen, Huy H.
Zheng, Yinqiang
Echizen, Isao
contents Infrared detection is an emerging technique for safety-critical tasks owing to its remarkable anti-interference capability. However, recent studies have revealed that it is vulnerable to physically-realizable adversarial patches, posing risks in its real-world applications. To address this problem, we are the first to investigate defense strategies against adversarial patch attacks on infrared detection, especially human detection. We propose a straightforward defense strategy, patch-based occlusion-aware detection (POD), which efficiently augments training samples with random patches and subsequently detects them. POD not only robustly detects people but also identifies adversarial patch locations. Surprisingly, while being extremely computationally efficient, POD easily generalizes to state-of-the-art adversarial patch attacks that are unseen during training. Furthermore, POD improves detection precision even in a clean (i.e., no-attack) situation due to the data augmentation effect. Our evaluation demonstrates that POD is robust to adversarial patches of various shapes and sizes. The effectiveness of our baseline approach is shown to be a viable defense mechanism for real-world infrared human detection systems, paving the way for exploring future research directions.
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spellingShingle Defending Against Physical Adversarial Patch Attacks on Infrared Human Detection
Strack, Lukas
Waseda, Futa
Nguyen, Huy H.
Zheng, Yinqiang
Echizen, Isao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Infrared detection is an emerging technique for safety-critical tasks owing to its remarkable anti-interference capability. However, recent studies have revealed that it is vulnerable to physically-realizable adversarial patches, posing risks in its real-world applications. To address this problem, we are the first to investigate defense strategies against adversarial patch attacks on infrared detection, especially human detection. We propose a straightforward defense strategy, patch-based occlusion-aware detection (POD), which efficiently augments training samples with random patches and subsequently detects them. POD not only robustly detects people but also identifies adversarial patch locations. Surprisingly, while being extremely computationally efficient, POD easily generalizes to state-of-the-art adversarial patch attacks that are unseen during training. Furthermore, POD improves detection precision even in a clean (i.e., no-attack) situation due to the data augmentation effect. Our evaluation demonstrates that POD is robust to adversarial patches of various shapes and sizes. The effectiveness of our baseline approach is shown to be a viable defense mechanism for real-world infrared human detection systems, paving the way for exploring future research directions.
title Defending Against Physical Adversarial Patch Attacks on Infrared Human Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15519