NumbOD: A Spatial-Frequency Fusion Attack Against Object Detectors

作     者：Zhou, Ziqi Li, Bowen Song, Yufei Yu, Zhifei Hu, Shengshan Wan, Wei Zhang, Leo Yu Yao, Dezhong Jin, Hai 

作者机构：National Engineering Research Center for Big Data Technology and System China Services Computing Technology and System Lab China Cluster and Grid Computing Lab Hubei Engineering Research Center on Big Data Security China Hubei Key Laboratory of Distributed System Security China School of Computer Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology China School of Cyber Science and Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology China School of Information and Communication Technology Griffith University Australia 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2024年

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主　　题：Object detection 

摘      要：With the advancement of deep learning, object detectors (ODs) with various architectures have achieved significant success in complex scenarios like autonomous driving. Previous adversarial attacks against ODs have been focused on designing customized attacks targeting their specific structures (e.g., NMS and RPN), yielding some results but simultaneously constraining their scalability. Moreover, most efforts against ODs stem from image-level attacks originally designed for classification tasks, resulting in redundant computations and disturbances in object-irrelevant areas (e.g., background). Consequently, how to design a model-agnostic efficient attack to comprehensively evaluate the vulnerabilities of ODs remains challenging and unresolved. In this paper, we propose NumbOD, a brand-new spatial-frequency fusion attack against various ODs, aimed at disrupting object detection within images. We directly leverage the features output by the OD without relying on its internal structures to craft adversarial examples. Specifically, we first design a dual-track attack target selection strategy to select high-quality bounding boxes from OD outputs for targeting. Subsequently, we employ directional perturbations to shift and compress predicted boxes and change classification results to deceive ODs. Additionally, we focus on manipulating the high-frequency components of images to confuse ODs attention on critical objects, thereby enhancing the attack efficiency. Our extensive experiments on nine ODs and two datasets show that NumbOD achieves powerful attack performance and high stealthiness. Copyright © 2024, The Authors. All rights reserved.