Restricted Region Based Iterative Gradient Method for Non-Targeted Attack

• Main Authors: Zhaoquan Gu, Weixiong Hu, Chuanjing Zhang, Le Wang, Chunsheng Zhu, Zhihong Tian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Adversarial examples; black-box attack; transferability; restrict region; gradient-based attack; non-targeted attack
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8978619/

Neural networks have been widely applied but they are still vulnerable to adversarial examples. More and more defense models have been proposed and they can resist the attacks to the neural networks. In order to generate adversarial examples with good transferability, we propose the restricted region based iterative gradient method (RRI-GM) for non-targeted attack, which aims at generating adversarial examples to make black-box defense models output wrong decision. We first use object detection algorithm to restrict some key regions in the images, since we regard perturbation in the key region affects more than the whole image. To improve the efficiency of attacks, we use gradient-based attack methods and they show good performance. In addition, the process is iterated for multiple rounds to generate adversarial examples with good transferability. Furthermore, we conduct extensive experiments to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the results show that our method can achieve good attack performance against black-box defense models.