Adapting deep learning for object detection to detect mixed image tampering.
problem Detecting mixed image tampering without prior knowledge of the method.
method Adapting deep learning for object detection to learn from a large database of various image types, using a Multi-stream Faster RCNN network with fused features from ELA and BAG error maps.
result Improved accuracy in detecting mixed image tampering.
New method detects adversarial images by exploiting their density.
problem Detecting adversarial images that are hard to find with gradient methods.
method Develop a test based on the density of adversarial directions.
result Unprecedented accuracy in detecting adversarial attacks under white-box setting.
We propose a novel approach towards adversarial attacks on neural networks (NN), focusing on tampering the data used for training instead of generating attacks on trained models. Our network-agnostic method creates a backdoor during training which can be exploited at test time to force a neural network to exhibit abnor…
We investigate the problem of reliable communication between two legitimate parties over deletion channels under an active eavesdropping (aka jamming) adversarial model. To this goal, we develop a theoretical framework based on probabilistic finite-state automata to define novel encoding and decoding schemes that ensur…
New algorithm rSVDdpd improves robustness and scalability for video surveillance background modeling.
problem Camera tampering and noisy videos make background separation challenging.
method Introduces rSVDdpd, a robust singular value decomposition technique for scalable video surveillance.
result Demonstrates superior performance on benchmark and real-life datasets.
DeFi TrustBoost uses blockchain and AI to assess small business loans.
problem Assessing small business loans from low-wealth households.
method Combines blockchain and Explainable AI to ensure confidentiality, compliance, and security.
result Tamper-proof auditing and on-chain/off-chain data storage for financial organizations.
FaceSigns embeds a secret watermark in images to authenticate and detect deepfakes.
problem Realistic image and video manipulation threats, especially deepfakes.
method Semi-fragile watermarking using neural networks, robust to face-swapping but fragile to deepfake manipulations.
result FaceSigns can reliably detect deepfake content with high accuracy.
The results of a learning process depend on the input data. There are cases in which an adversary can strategically tamper with the input data to affect the outcome of the learning process. While some datasets are difficult to attack, many others are susceptible to manipulation. A resourceful attacker can tamper with l…
Blockchain is a distributed database that keeps a chronologically-growing list (chain) of records (blocks) secure from tampering and revision. While computerisation has changed the nature of a ledger from clay tables in the old days to digital records in modern days, blockchain technology is the first true innovation i…
HMN detects fake faces using memory networks and visual cues.
problem Detecting fake faces from unseen manipulation types.
method Hierarchical Memory Network (HMN) architecture.
result Superior performance in fake and fraudulent face detection.
CheckNet verifies neural network inference on untrusted devices.
problem Ensuring secure and tamper-proof inference on untrusted devices.
method A checksum-based approach for neural network inference verification.
result Excellent attack detection and success bounds on various models.
Recent changes to greenhouse gas emission policies are catalyzing the electric vehicle (EV) market making it readily accessible to consumers. While there are challenges that arise with dense deployment of EVs, one of the major future concerns is cyber security threat. In this paper, cyber security threats in the form o…
Post-Quantum Secure Federated DeFi for Inclusive Banking
problem Financial systems and DeFi ecosystems are vulnerable to quantum computing threats.
method Post-Quantum Secure Federated DeFi framework using lattice-based FHE.
result End-to-end homomorphic computation enables inter-bank collaboration.
In this paper, we propose hybrid building/floor classification and floor-level two-dimensional location coordinates regression using a single-input and multi-output (SIMO) deep neural network (DNN) for large-scale indoor localization based on Wi-Fi fingerprinting. The proposed scheme exploits the different nature of th…
It is usual to consider data protection and learnability as conflicting objectives. This is not always the case: we show how to jointly control inference --- seen as the attack --- and learnability by a noise-free process that mixes training examples, the Crossover Process (cp). One key point is that the cp~is typicall…
Paper proposes real-time risk metrics for stablecoin protocols.
problem Lack of risk management frameworks for stablecoins.
method Developed two risk metrics: capitalization and liquidity.
result Demonstrated practical benefits of real-time on-chain data.
New method for robust PCA with exponential family distributions.
problem Recovering low-rank structure from data matrices with outliers.
method Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for eextRPCA. result Demonstrated effectiveness in steel sheet defect detection and crime activity monitoring.
Study finds Aave token network has core-periphery structure, with high decentralization predicting better returns.
problem Understanding the actual decentralization in DeFi token transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
method Applied social network analysis to measure decentralization in Aave token transactions.
result A more decentralized Aave token network predicts higher returns and lower volatility.
FedCoin uses blockchain to fairly distribute incentives in federated learning.
problem Fairly incentivizing data owners in federated learning with privacy concerns.
method FedCoin uses a blockchain-based peer-to-peer payment system with a proof of Shapley (PoSap) protocol to calculate and distribute Shapley Values.
result FedCoin accurately computes Shapley Values and promotes high-quality data contributions.
Many traditional methods for identifying changepoints can struggle in the presence of outliers, or when the noise is heavy-tailed. Often they will infer additional changepoints in order to fit the outliers. To overcome this problem, data often needs to be pre-processed to remove outliers, though this is difficult for a…
FOCUS addresses label quality disparity in FL for healthcare applications.
problem Label quality disparity in federated learning for healthcare applications.
method FOCUS maintains a small set of benchmark samples and computes the mutual cross-entropy between local and benchmark datasets to quantify label credibility. It then adjusts client weights based on credibility values.
result FOCUS effectively reduces the impact of noisy labels from clients, improving model performance.
Proposes using mode connectivity to improve adversarial robustness of neural networks.
problem Improving adversarial robustness of deep neural networks.
method Employing mode connectivity in loss landscapes to study adversarial robustness and propose methods for improvement.
result Path connection learned using limited bonafide data can effectively mitigate adversarial effects while maintaining original accuracy.
New algorithm finds corrupted vertices in graphs with few queries.
problem Adversarial tampering of graph edges and vertices.
method Active learning algorithm with polynomial query complexity.
result Efficiently recovers corrupted vertices with small query complexity.
Paper detects Trojan neural networks with limited or no data.
problem Robustness of DNNs against Trojan attacks in data-scarce scenarios.
method Proposes data-limited and data-free TrojanNet detectors.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of detectors on various datasets.
Study blockchain's impact on primary financial market challenges.
problem Challenges of blockchain in securities issuance and trading.
method Hybrid method combining interviews and surveys.
result Complex due diligence, mismatch, and difficult monitoring are significant challenges.
Making learners robust to adversarial perturbation at test time (i.e., evasion attacks) or training time (i.e., poisoning attacks) has emerged as a challenging task. It is known that for some natural settings, sublinear perturbations in the training phase or the testing phase can drastically decrease the quality of the…
Many modern machine learning classifiers are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the instances. Despite a massive amount of work focusing on making classifiers robust, the task seems quite challenging. In this work, through a theoretical study, we investigate the adversarial risk and robustness of cl…
CatSIM measures image similarity robustly to small changes.
problem Measuring similarity between images, especially with small perturbations.
method Uses structural similarity image quality paradigm, robust to small location changes.
result Structural similarity between images rated higher when not entirely overlapping.
Develops statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression models.
problem Current image-to-image regression models lack statistical guarantees for model mistakes and hallucinations.
method Uncertainty quantification techniques with rigorous statistical guarantees for image-to-image regression problems.
result Derives uncertainty intervals around each pixel with formal mathematical guarantees.
AugurOne trains single image generators without GANs using image warps.
problem Training end-to-end single image generators without GANs.
method Non-affine augmentations of single input images for training an upscaling neural network.
result End-to-end training yields state-of-the-art performance on conditional generation tasks.
Total variation denoising improves image quality adaptively.
problem Improving image quality from noisy data.
method Total variation regularization for image denoising.
result Denoised images converge to true images at a parametric rate.
Transmission imaging, as an important imaging technique widely used in astronomy, medical diagnosis, and biology science, has been shown in [49] quite different from reflection imaging used in our everyday life. Understanding the structures of images (the prior information) is important for designing, testing, and choo…
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
problem Comparing medical images for distribution or domain differences.
method Developed a new metric FRD using standardized radiomic features.
result FRD outperforms other metrics in various medical imaging applications.
This study investigates how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
problem Quantifying how much knowledge from natural images can be transferred to pathology images.
method Proposes a framework to quantify knowledge gain by a particular layer, conducts empirical investigation in pathology image centered transfer learning.
result Early layers of deep models can transfer knowledge to pathology image classification tasks.
Generates high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.
problem Generating realistic images from low-resolution inputs.
method Latent Adversarial Generator (LAG) using perceptual loss.
result Samples of high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs.
Few-shot unsupervised image-to-image translation model learns from a few examples.
problem Current unsupervised image-to-image translation methods require many images at training time.
method Coupling adversarial training with a novel network design for few-shot learning.
result Model achieves effective few-shot image-to-image translation.
Generates synthetic laparoscopic images for training deep neural networks.
problem Lack of large labeled data sets for laparoscopic image processing.
method Unpaired image-to-image translation to generate realistic synthetic images.
result Synthetic data set improves liver segmentation performance without manual labeling.
Computational ghost imaging is an imaging technique in which an object is imaged from light collected using a single-pixel detector with no spatial resolution. Recently, ghost cytometry has been proposed for a high-speed cell-classification method that involves ghost imaging and machine learning in flow cytometry. Ghos…
Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…
PG-IM uses neural-symbolic programs to manipulate images.
problem Creating holistic image representations and manipulations.
method PG-IM detects patterns, induces symbolic programs, and manipulates images using a neural network.
result PG-IM learns from a single image and achieves superior performance.
Paper introduces LLISE for image structure learning using SSIM.
problem Image quality assessment using MSE or ℓ2 norm is not promising. method Locally Linear Image Structural Embedding (LLISE) using SSIM.
result LLISE captures image structure features and discriminates distortions.
Paper proposes method to generate images from text using GANs trained on uncaptioned images.
problem Limited captioned image datasets for text-to-image synthesis.
method Conditional GANs trained on uncaptioned images with an Image Captioning Module.
result Promising preliminary results compared to unconditional GANs.
Latent feature models are attractive for image modeling, since images generally contain multiple objects. However, many latent feature models ignore that objects can appear at different locations or require pre-segmentation of images. While the transformed Indian buffet process (tIBP) provides a method for modeling tra…
The paper analyzes relationships between various image models for restoration.
problem Unclear relationships among popular image models for restoration.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental study of image models.
result Improved denoising performance by combining multiple image models.
Deep models generate images with missing high-frequency details.
problem Malicious use of realistic deep-generated images.
method Analysis of Fourier spectrum discrepancies between real and generated images.
result Detection method achieves up to 99.2% accuracy in classifying real and generated images.
StrokeCoder uses Transformers to generate images from single examples.
problem Creating diverse images from a single example.
method Transformer Neural Network learns from a single path-based example to generate a set of images.
result The model can generate a large set of deviated images that still represent the original image's style and concept.
New method reconstructs images from fMRI data using unlabeled data.
problem Challenges in acquiring labeled data for fMRI-to-image reconstruction.
method Self-supervised training with Encoder-Decoder and Decoder-Encoder networks.
result Reconstruction network adapts to new unlabeled test data.
Improved self-supervised learning for document images.
problem Performance of self-supervised pre-training on document images is poor.
method Proposed context-aware alternatives and a novel multi-modal method.
result Novel method outperforms other self-supervised methods on document image classification.