Black-box Adversarial Attacks Against Image Quality Assessment Models

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Auteurs principaux: Ran, Yu, Zhang, Ao-Xiang, Li, Mingjie, Tang, Weixuan, Wang, Yuan-Gen
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author Ran, Yu
Zhang, Ao-Xiang
Li, Mingjie
Tang, Weixuan
Wang, Yuan-Gen
author_facet Ran, Yu
Zhang, Ao-Xiang
Li, Mingjie
Tang, Weixuan
Wang, Yuan-Gen
contents The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes for model refinement. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the black-box adversarial attacks on NR-IQA models. Specifically, we first formulate the attack problem as maximizing the deviation between the estimated quality scores of original and perturbed images, while restricting the perturbed image distortions for visual quality preservation. Under such formulation, we then design a Bi-directional loss function to mislead the estimated quality scores of adversarial examples towards an opposite direction with maximum deviation. On this basis, we finally develop an efficient and effective black-box attack method against NR-IQA models. Extensive experiments reveal that all the evaluated NR-IQA models are vulnerable to the proposed attack method. And the generated perturbations are not transferable, enabling them to serve the investigation of specialities of disparate IQA models.
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Ran, Yu
Zhang, Ao-Xiang
Li, Mingjie
Tang, Weixuan
Wang, Yuan-Gen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes for model refinement. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the black-box adversarial attacks on NR-IQA models. Specifically, we first formulate the attack problem as maximizing the deviation between the estimated quality scores of original and perturbed images, while restricting the perturbed image distortions for visual quality preservation. Under such formulation, we then design a Bi-directional loss function to mislead the estimated quality scores of adversarial examples towards an opposite direction with maximum deviation. On this basis, we finally develop an efficient and effective black-box attack method against NR-IQA models. Extensive experiments reveal that all the evaluated NR-IQA models are vulnerable to the proposed attack method. And the generated perturbations are not transferable, enabling them to serve the investigation of specialities of disparate IQA models.
title Black-box Adversarial Attacks Against Image Quality Assessment Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17533