Imperceptible Adversarial Examples in the Physical World

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Main Authors: Xu, Weilin, Szyller, Sebastian, Cornelius, Cory, Rojas, Luis Murillo, Arvinte, Marius, Velasquez, Alvaro, Martin, Jason, Himayat, Nageen
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author Xu, Weilin
Szyller, Sebastian
Cornelius, Cory
Rojas, Luis Murillo
Arvinte, Marius
Velasquez, Alvaro
Martin, Jason
Himayat, Nageen
author_facet Xu, Weilin
Szyller, Sebastian
Cornelius, Cory
Rojas, Luis Murillo
Arvinte, Marius
Velasquez, Alvaro
Martin, Jason
Himayat, Nageen
contents Adversarial examples in the digital domain against deep learning-based computer vision models allow for perturbations that are imperceptible to human eyes. However, producing similar adversarial examples in the physical world has been difficult due to the non-differentiable image distortion functions in visual sensing systems. The existing algorithms for generating physically realizable adversarial examples often loosen their definition of adversarial examples by allowing unbounded perturbations, resulting in obvious or even strange visual patterns. In this work, we make adversarial examples imperceptible in the physical world using a straight-through estimator (STE, a.k.a. BPDA). We employ STE to overcome the non-differentiability -- applying exact, non-differentiable distortions in the forward pass of the backpropagation step, and using the identity function in the backward pass. Our differentiable rendering extension to STE also enables imperceptible adversarial patches in the physical world. Using printout photos, and experiments in the CARLA simulator, we show that STE enables fast generation of $\ell_\infty$ bounded adversarial examples despite the non-differentiable distortions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work demonstrating imperceptible adversarial examples bounded by small $\ell_\infty$ norms in the physical world that force zero classification accuracy in the global perturbation threat model and cause near-zero ($4.22\%$) AP50 in object detection in the patch perturbation threat model. We urge the community to re-evaluate the threat of adversarial examples in the physical world.
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spellingShingle Imperceptible Adversarial Examples in the Physical World
Xu, Weilin
Szyller, Sebastian
Cornelius, Cory
Rojas, Luis Murillo
Arvinte, Marius
Velasquez, Alvaro
Martin, Jason
Himayat, Nageen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Adversarial examples in the digital domain against deep learning-based computer vision models allow for perturbations that are imperceptible to human eyes. However, producing similar adversarial examples in the physical world has been difficult due to the non-differentiable image distortion functions in visual sensing systems. The existing algorithms for generating physically realizable adversarial examples often loosen their definition of adversarial examples by allowing unbounded perturbations, resulting in obvious or even strange visual patterns. In this work, we make adversarial examples imperceptible in the physical world using a straight-through estimator (STE, a.k.a. BPDA). We employ STE to overcome the non-differentiability -- applying exact, non-differentiable distortions in the forward pass of the backpropagation step, and using the identity function in the backward pass. Our differentiable rendering extension to STE also enables imperceptible adversarial patches in the physical world. Using printout photos, and experiments in the CARLA simulator, we show that STE enables fast generation of $\ell_\infty$ bounded adversarial examples despite the non-differentiable distortions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work demonstrating imperceptible adversarial examples bounded by small $\ell_\infty$ norms in the physical world that force zero classification accuracy in the global perturbation threat model and cause near-zero ($4.22\%$) AP50 in object detection in the patch perturbation threat model. We urge the community to re-evaluate the threat of adversarial examples in the physical world.
title Imperceptible Adversarial Examples in the Physical World
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16622