Summary of Ar-gan: Generative Adversarial Network-based Defense Method Against Adversarial Attacks on the Traffic Sign Classification System Of Autonomous Vehicles, by M Sabbir Salek et al.
AR-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network-Based Defense Method Against Adversarial Attacks on the Traffic Sign Classification System of Autonomous Vehicles
by M Sabbir Salek, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mashrur Chowdhury
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Dec 2023
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The study proposes an attack-resilient Generative Adversarial Network (AR-GAN) for traffic sign classification in autonomous vehicles. The AR-GAN is designed to be robust against various adversarial attacks, including Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM), DeepFool, Carlini and Wagner (C&W), and Projected Gradient Descent (PGD). Unlike previous methods, the AR-GAN assumes zero knowledge of attack models and samples, providing consistently high classification performance under different attack scenarios. The authors compare their method with benchmark defense approaches, showing that the AR-GAN outperforms them in white-box attacks while maintaining robustness against black-box attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The study creates a special kind of computer network to help self-driving cars recognize traffic signs even when someone tries to trick it. They want to make sure this network is super good at recognizing signs, no matter what tricks people try to use on it. To test this, they used different methods to try and fool the network, like making it think a stop sign was actually a go sign. The new network did really well against these tricks, especially when it didn’t know exactly how someone would try to trick it. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Gan * Generative adversarial network * Gradient descent
