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The Noise Blowing-Up Strategy Creates High Quality High Resolution Adversarial Images against Convolutional Neural Networks
TOPAL, Ali Osman; MANCELLARI, Enea; LEPREVOST, Franck et al.
2024In Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 14 (8), p. 3493
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Keywords :
black-box attack; convolutional neural network; evolutionary algorithm; high-resolution adversarial image; noise blowing-up; Materials Science (all); Instrumentation; Engineering (all); Process Chemistry and Technology; Computer Science Applications; Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Abstract :
[en] Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) serve as powerful tools in computer vision tasks with extensive applications in daily life. However, they are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Still, attacks can be positive for at least two reasons. Firstly, revealing CNNs vulnerabilities prompts efforts to enhance their robustness. Secondly, adversarial images can also be employed to preserve privacy-sensitive information from CNN-based threat models aiming to extract such data from images. For such applications, the construction of high-resolution adversarial images is mandatory in practice. This paper firstly quantifies the speed, adversity, and visual quality challenges involved in the effective construction of high-resolution adversarial images, secondly provides the operational design of a new strategy, called here the noise blowing-up strategy, working for any attack, any scenario, any CNN, any clean image, thirdly validates the strategy via an extensive series of experiments. We performed experiments with 100 high-resolution clean images, exposing them to seven different attacks against 10 CNNs. Our method achieved an overall average success rate of 75% in the targeted scenario and 64% in the untargeted scenario. We revisited the failed cases: a slight modification of our method led to success rates larger than 98.9%. As of today, the noise blowing-up strategy is the first generic approach that successfully solves all three speed, adversity, and visual quality challenges, and therefore effectively constructs high-resolution adversarial images with high-quality requirements.
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Review article
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
TOPAL, Ali Osman  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
MANCELLARI, Enea   ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
LEPREVOST, Franck  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
AVDUSINOVIC, Elmir   ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
GILLET, Thomas  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > Team Marian VAN DER MEULEN
 These authors have contributed equally to this work.
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
The Noise Blowing-Up Strategy Creates High Quality High Resolution Adversarial Images against Convolutional Neural Networks
Publication date :
April 2024
Journal title :
Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
ISSN :
2076-3417
eISSN :
2076-3417
Publisher :
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Special issue title :
Adversarial Attacks and Cyber Security: Trends and Challenges
Volume :
14
Issue :
8
Pages :
3493
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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