Visual detection is a key task in autonomous driving, and it serves as a crucial foundation for self-driving planning and control. Deep neural networks have achieved promising results in various visual tasks, but they are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A comprehensive understanding of deep visual detectors’ vulnerability is required before people can improve their robustness. However, only a few adversarial attack/defense works have focused on object detection, and most of them employed only classification and/or localization losses, ignoring the objectness aspect. In this paper, we identify a serious objectness-related adversarial vulnerability in YOLO detectors and present an effective attack strategy targeting the objectness aspect of visual detection in autonomous vehicles. Furthermore, to address such vulnerability, we propose a new objectness-aware adversarial training approach for visual detection. Experiments show that the proposed attack targeting the objectness aspect is 45.17% and 43.50% more effective than those generated from classification and/or localization losses on the KITTI and COCO_traffic datasets, respectively. Also, the proposed adversarial defense approach can improve the detectors’ robustness against objectness-oriented attacks by up to 21% and 12% mAP on KITTI and COCO_traffic, respectively.


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    Title :

    Adversarial Attack and Defense of YOLO Detectors in Autonomous Driving Scenarios


    Contributors:
    Choi, Jung Im (author) / Tian, Qing (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-06-05


    Size :

    2488100 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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