Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to artificial intelligence systems by exposing them to vulnerabilities in deep learning models.Existing defense mechanisms often suffer drawbacks,such as the need for mode...Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to artificial intelligence systems by exposing them to vulnerabilities in deep learning models.Existing defense mechanisms often suffer drawbacks,such as the need for model retraining,significant inference time overhead,and limited effectiveness against specific attack types.Achieving perfect defense against adversarial attacks remains elusive,emphasizing the importance of mitigation strategies.In this study,we propose a defense mechanism that applies random cropping and Gaussian filtering to input images to mitigate the impact of adversarial attacks.First,the image was randomly cropped to vary its dimensions and then placed at the center of a fixed 299299 space,with the remaining areas filled with zero padding.Subsequently,Gaussian×filtering with a 77 kernel and a standard deviation of two was applied using a convolution operation.Finally,the×smoothed image was fed into the classification model.The proposed defense method consistently appeared in the upperright region across all attack scenarios,demonstrating its ability to preserve classification performance on clean images while significantly mitigating adversarial attacks.This visualization confirms that the proposed method is effective and reliable for defending against adversarial perturbations.Moreover,the proposed method incurs minimal computational overhead,making it suitable for real-time applications.Furthermore,owing to its model-agnostic nature,the proposed method can be easily incorporated into various neural network architectures,serving as a fundamental module for adversarial defense strategies.展开更多
基金supported by the Glocal University 30 Project Fund of Gyeongsang National University in 2025.
文摘Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to artificial intelligence systems by exposing them to vulnerabilities in deep learning models.Existing defense mechanisms often suffer drawbacks,such as the need for model retraining,significant inference time overhead,and limited effectiveness against specific attack types.Achieving perfect defense against adversarial attacks remains elusive,emphasizing the importance of mitigation strategies.In this study,we propose a defense mechanism that applies random cropping and Gaussian filtering to input images to mitigate the impact of adversarial attacks.First,the image was randomly cropped to vary its dimensions and then placed at the center of a fixed 299299 space,with the remaining areas filled with zero padding.Subsequently,Gaussian×filtering with a 77 kernel and a standard deviation of two was applied using a convolution operation.Finally,the×smoothed image was fed into the classification model.The proposed defense method consistently appeared in the upperright region across all attack scenarios,demonstrating its ability to preserve classification performance on clean images while significantly mitigating adversarial attacks.This visualization confirms that the proposed method is effective and reliable for defending against adversarial perturbations.Moreover,the proposed method incurs minimal computational overhead,making it suitable for real-time applications.Furthermore,owing to its model-agnostic nature,the proposed method can be easily incorporated into various neural network architectures,serving as a fundamental module for adversarial defense strategies.