Targeted universal adversarial examples for remote sensing

• Main Authors: Bai, Tao, Wang, Hao, Wen, Bihan
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Adversarial Examples; Targeted Adversarial Attacks
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165409
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Researchers are focusing on the vulnerabilities of deep learning models for remote sensing; various attack methods have been proposed, including universal adversarial examples. Existing universal adversarial examples, however, are only designed to fool deep learning models rather than target specific goals, i.e., targeted attacks. To this end, we propose two variants of universal adversarial examples called targeted universal adversarial examples and source-targeted universal adversarial examples. Extensive experiments on three popular datasets showed strong attackability of the two targeted adversarial variants. We hope such strong attacks can inspire and motivate research on the defenses against adversarial examples in remote sensing.