Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pang, Shuchao, Chen, Zhenghan, Zhang, Shen, Lu, Liming, Liang, Siyuan, Du, Anan, Zhou, Yongbin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15650
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866913999976660992
author Pang, Shuchao
Chen, Zhenghan
Zhang, Shen
Lu, Liming
Liang, Siyuan
Du, Anan
Zhou, Yongbin
author_facet Pang, Shuchao
Chen, Zhenghan
Zhang, Shen
Lu, Liming
Liang, Siyuan
Du, Anan
Zhou, Yongbin
contents Deep neural networks for 3D point clouds have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Previous 3D adversarial attack methods often exploit certain information about the target models, such as model parameters or outputs, to generate adversarial point clouds. However, in realistic scenarios, it is challenging to obtain any information about the target models under conditions of absolute security. Therefore, we focus on transfer-based attacks, where generating adversarial point clouds does not require any information about the target models. Based on our observation that the critical features used for point cloud classification are consistent across different DNN architectures, we propose CFG, a novel transfer-based black-box attack method that improves the transferability of adversarial point clouds via the proposed Critical Feature Guidance. Specifically, our method regularizes the search of adversarial point clouds by computing the importance of the extracted features, prioritizing the corruption of critical features that are likely to be adopted by diverse architectures. Further, we explicitly constrain the maximum deviation extent of the generated adversarial point clouds in the loss function to ensure their imperceptibility. Extensive experiments conducted on the ModelNet40 and ScanObjectNN benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed CFG outperforms the state-of-the-art attack methods by a large margin.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2508_15650
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Towards a 3D Transfer-based Black-box Attack via Critical Feature Guidance
Pang, Shuchao
Chen, Zhenghan
Zhang, Shen
Lu, Liming
Liang, Siyuan
Du, Anan
Zhou, Yongbin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Deep neural networks for 3D point clouds have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Previous 3D adversarial attack methods often exploit certain information about the target models, such as model parameters or outputs, to generate adversarial point clouds. However, in realistic scenarios, it is challenging to obtain any information about the target models under conditions of absolute security. Therefore, we focus on transfer-based attacks, where generating adversarial point clouds does not require any information about the target models. Based on our observation that the critical features used for point cloud classification are consistent across different DNN architectures, we propose CFG, a novel transfer-based black-box attack method that improves the transferability of adversarial point clouds via the proposed Critical Feature Guidance. Specifically, our method regularizes the search of adversarial point clouds by computing the importance of the extracted features, prioritizing the corruption of critical features that are likely to be adopted by diverse architectures. Further, we explicitly constrain the maximum deviation extent of the generated adversarial point clouds in the loss function to ensure their imperceptibility. Extensive experiments conducted on the ModelNet40 and ScanObjectNN benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed CFG outperforms the state-of-the-art attack methods by a large margin.
title Towards a 3D Transfer-based Black-box Attack via Critical Feature Guidance
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15650