Adversarial Attack for RGB-Event based Visual Object Tracking

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Main Authors: Chen, Qiang, Wang, Xiao, Wang, Haowen, Jiang, Bo, Zhu, Lin, Zhang, Dawei, Tian, Yonghong, Tang, Jin
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author Chen, Qiang
Wang, Xiao
Wang, Haowen
Jiang, Bo
Zhu, Lin
Zhang, Dawei
Tian, Yonghong
Tang, Jin
author_facet Chen, Qiang
Wang, Xiao
Wang, Haowen
Jiang, Bo
Zhu, Lin
Zhang, Dawei
Tian, Yonghong
Tang, Jin
contents Visual object tracking is a crucial research topic in the fields of computer vision and multi-modal fusion. Among various approaches, robust visual tracking that combines RGB frames with Event streams has attracted increasing attention from researchers. While striving for high accuracy and efficiency in tracking, it is also important to explore how to effectively conduct adversarial attacks and defenses on RGB-Event stream tracking algorithms, yet research in this area remains relatively scarce. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose a cross-modal adversarial attack algorithm for RGB-Event visual tracking. Because of the diverse representations of Event streams, and given that Event voxels and frames are more commonly used, this paper will focus on these two representations for an in-depth study. Specifically, for the RGB-Event voxel, we first optimize the perturbation by adversarial loss to generate RGB frame adversarial examples. For discrete Event voxel representations, we propose a two-step attack strategy, more in detail, we first inject Event voxels into the target region as initialized adversarial examples, then, conduct a gradient-guided optimization by perturbing the spatial location of the Event voxels. For the RGB-Event frame based tracking, we optimize the cross-modal universal perturbation by integrating the gradient information from multimodal data. We evaluate the proposed approach against attacks on three widely used RGB-Event Tracking datasets, i.e., COESOT, FE108, and VisEvent. Extensive experiments show that our method significantly reduces the performance of the tracker across numerous datasets in both unimodal and multimodal scenarios. The source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Adversarial_Attack_Defense
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spellingShingle Adversarial Attack for RGB-Event based Visual Object Tracking
Chen, Qiang
Wang, Xiao
Wang, Haowen
Jiang, Bo
Zhu, Lin
Zhang, Dawei
Tian, Yonghong
Tang, Jin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Visual object tracking is a crucial research topic in the fields of computer vision and multi-modal fusion. Among various approaches, robust visual tracking that combines RGB frames with Event streams has attracted increasing attention from researchers. While striving for high accuracy and efficiency in tracking, it is also important to explore how to effectively conduct adversarial attacks and defenses on RGB-Event stream tracking algorithms, yet research in this area remains relatively scarce. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose a cross-modal adversarial attack algorithm for RGB-Event visual tracking. Because of the diverse representations of Event streams, and given that Event voxels and frames are more commonly used, this paper will focus on these two representations for an in-depth study. Specifically, for the RGB-Event voxel, we first optimize the perturbation by adversarial loss to generate RGB frame adversarial examples. For discrete Event voxel representations, we propose a two-step attack strategy, more in detail, we first inject Event voxels into the target region as initialized adversarial examples, then, conduct a gradient-guided optimization by perturbing the spatial location of the Event voxels. For the RGB-Event frame based tracking, we optimize the cross-modal universal perturbation by integrating the gradient information from multimodal data. We evaluate the proposed approach against attacks on three widely used RGB-Event Tracking datasets, i.e., COESOT, FE108, and VisEvent. Extensive experiments show that our method significantly reduces the performance of the tracker across numerous datasets in both unimodal and multimodal scenarios. The source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Adversarial_Attack_Defense
title Adversarial Attack for RGB-Event based Visual Object Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14423