Title
Zero-Query Transfer Attacks on Context-Aware Object Detectors
Abstract
Adversarial attacks perturb images such that a deep neural network produces incorrect classification results. A promising approach to defend against adversarial attacks on natural multi-object scenes is to impose a context-consistency check, wherein, if the detected objects are not consistent with an appropriately defined context, then an attack is suspected. Stronger attacks are needed to fool such context-aware detectors. We present the first approach for generating context-consistent adversarial attacks that can evade the context-consistency check of black-box object detectors operating on complex, natural scenes. Unlike many black-box attacks that perform repeated attempts and open themselves to detection, we assume a “zero-query” setting, where the attacker has no knowledge of the classification decisions of the victim system. First, we derive multiple attack plans that assign incorrect labels to victim objects in a context-consistent manner. Then we design and use a novel data structure that we call the perturbation success probability matrix, which enables us to filter the attack plans and choose the one most likely to succeed. This final attack plan is implemented using a perturbation-bounded adversarial attack algorithm. We compare our zero-query attack against a few-query scheme that repeatedly checks if the victim system is fooled. We also compare against state-of-the-art context-agnostic attacks. Against a context-aware defense, the fooling rate of our zero-query approach is significantly higher than context-agnostic approaches and higher than that achievable with up to three rounds of the fewquery scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01460
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Adversarial attack and defense, Scene analysis and understanding
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zikui Cai101.35
Shantanu Rane274754.34
Alejandro E. Brito311.03
Chengyu Song441230.15
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy564561.55
Amit K. Roy Chowdhury6115373.96
M. Salman Asif7145.59