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Autori principali: Trippodo, Matteo, Becattini, Federico, Seidenari, Lorenzo
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10359
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author Trippodo, Matteo
Becattini, Federico
Seidenari, Lorenzo
author_facet Trippodo, Matteo
Becattini, Federico
Seidenari, Lorenzo
contents Recent advances in text-based image editing have enabled fine-grained manipulation of visual content guided by natural language. However, such methods are susceptible to adversarial attacks. In this work, we propose a novel attack that targets the visual component of editing methods. We introduce Attention Attack, which disrupts the cross-attention between a textual prompt and the visual representation of the image by using an automatically generated caption of the source image as a proxy for the edit prompt. This breaks the alignment between the contents of the image and their textual description, without requiring knowledge of the editing method or the editing prompt. Reflecting on the reliability of existing metrics for immunization success, we propose two novel evaluation strategies: Caption Similarity, which quantifies semantic consistency between original and adversarial edits, and semantic Intersection over Union (IoU), which measures spatial layout disruption via segmentation masks. Experiments conducted on the TEDBench++ benchmark demonstrate that our attack significantly degrades editing performance while remaining imperceptible.
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spellingShingle Immunizing Images from Text to Image Editing via Adversarial Cross-Attention
Trippodo, Matteo
Becattini, Federico
Seidenari, Lorenzo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recent advances in text-based image editing have enabled fine-grained manipulation of visual content guided by natural language. However, such methods are susceptible to adversarial attacks. In this work, we propose a novel attack that targets the visual component of editing methods. We introduce Attention Attack, which disrupts the cross-attention between a textual prompt and the visual representation of the image by using an automatically generated caption of the source image as a proxy for the edit prompt. This breaks the alignment between the contents of the image and their textual description, without requiring knowledge of the editing method or the editing prompt. Reflecting on the reliability of existing metrics for immunization success, we propose two novel evaluation strategies: Caption Similarity, which quantifies semantic consistency between original and adversarial edits, and semantic Intersection over Union (IoU), which measures spatial layout disruption via segmentation masks. Experiments conducted on the TEDBench++ benchmark demonstrate that our attack significantly degrades editing performance while remaining imperceptible.
title Immunizing Images from Text to Image Editing via Adversarial Cross-Attention
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10359