Adversarial Patch Attack on Multi-Scale Object Detection for UAV Remote Sensing Images

Although deep learning has received extensive attention and achieved excellent performance in various scenarios, it suffers from adversarial examples to some extent. In particular, physical attack poses a greater threat than digital attack. However, existing research has paid less attention to the p...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-11, Vol.14 (21), p.5298
Main Authors: Zhang, Yichuang, Zhang, Yu, Qi, Jiahao, Bin, Kangcheng, Wen, Hao, Tong, Xunqian, Zhong, Ping
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
adversarial examples
Deep learning
Experiments
joint optimization
Methods
Neural networks
object detection
Object recognition
Optimization
Perturbation
Photography
Remote sensing
remote sensing images
scale factor
Sensors
Success
universal adversarial patch
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Summary:Although deep learning has received extensive attention and achieved excellent performance in various scenarios, it suffers from adversarial examples to some extent. In particular, physical attack poses a greater threat than digital attack. However, existing research has paid less attention to the physical attack of object detection in UAV remote sensing images (RSIs). In this work, we carefully analyze the universal adversarial patch attack for multi-scale objects in the field of remote sensing. There are two challenges faced by an adversarial attack in RSIs. On one hand, the number of objects in remote sensing images is more than that of natural images. Therefore, it is difficult for an adversarial patch to show an adversarial effect on all objects when attacking a detector of RSIs. On the other hand, the wide height range of the photography platform causes the size of objects to vary a great deal, which presents challenges for the generation of universal adversarial perturbation for multi-scale objects. To this end, we propose an adversarial attack method of object detection for remote sensing data. One of the key ideas of the proposed method is the novel optimization of the adversarial patch. We aim to attack as many objects as possible by formulating a joint optimization problem. Furthermore, we raise the scale factor to generate a universal adversarial patch that adapts to multi-scale objects, which ensures that the adversarial patch is valid for multi-scale objects in the real world. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method against state-of-the-art methods on YOLO-v3 and YOLO-v5. In addition, we also validate the effectiveness of our method in real-world applications.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs14215298