Improving the JPEG-resistance of Adversarial Attacks on Face Recognition by Interpolation Smoothing

JPEG compression can significantly impair the performance of adversarial face examples, which previous adversarial attacks on face recognition (FR) have not adequately addressed. Considering this challenge, we propose a novel adversarial attack on FR that aims to improve the resistance of adversarial examples against JPEG compression. Specifically, during the iterative process of generating adversarial face examples, we interpolate the adversarial face examples into a smaller size. Then we utilize these interpolated adversarial face examples to create the adversarial examples in the next iteration. Subsequently, we restore the adversarial face examples to their original size by interpolating. Throughout the entire process, our proposed method can smooth the adversarial perturbations, effectively mitigating the presence of high-frequency signals in the crafted adversarial face examples that are typically eliminated by JPEG compression. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method in improving the JPEG-resistance of adversarial face examples.

PPR: Enhancing Dodging Attacks while Maintaining Impersonation Attacks on Face Recognition Systems

Adversarial Attacks on Face Recognition (FR) encompass two types: impersonation attacks and evasion attacks. We observe that achieving a successful impersonation attack on FR does not necessarily ensure a successful dodging attack on FR in the black-box setting. Introducing a novel attack method named Pre-training Pruning Restoration Attack (PPR), we aim to enhance the performance of dodging attacks whilst avoiding the degradation of impersonation attacks. Our method employs adversarial example pruning, enabling a portion of adversarial perturbations to be set to zero, while tending to maintain the attack performance. By utilizing adversarial example pruning, we can prune the pre-trained adversarial examples and selectively free up certain adversarial perturbations. Thereafter, we embed adversarial perturbations in the pruned area, which enhances the dodging performance of the adversarial face examples. The effectiveness of our proposed attack method is demonstrated through our experimental results, showcasing its superior performance.

Improving Visual Quality and Transferability of Adversarial Attacks on Face Recognition Simultaneously with Adversarial Restoration

Adversarial face examples possess two critical properties: Visual Quality and Transferability. However, existing approaches rarely address these properties simultaneously, leading to subpar results. To address this issue, we propose a novel adversarial attack technique known as Adversarial Restoration (AdvRestore), which enhances both visual quality and transferability of adversarial face examples by leveraging a face restoration prior. In our approach, we initially train a Restoration Latent Diffusion Model (RLDM) designed for face restoration. Subsequently, we employ the inference process of RLDM to generate adversarial face examples. The adversarial perturbations are applied to the intermediate features of RLDM. Additionally, by treating RLDM face restoration as a sibling task, the transferability of the generated adversarial face examples is further improved. Our experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed attack method.

Improving Transferability of Adversarial Examples on Face Recognition with Beneficial Perturbation Feature Augmentation

Face recognition (FR) models can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations on benign face images. To improve the transferability of adversarial examples on FR models, we propose a novel attack method called Beneficial Perturbation Feature Augmentation Attack (BPFA), which reduces the overfitting of the adversarial examples to surrogate FR models by the adversarial strategy. Specifically, in the backpropagation step, BPFA records the gradients on pre-selected features and uses the gradient on the input image to craft adversarial perturbation to be added on the input image. In the next forward propagation step, BPFA leverages the recorded gradients to add perturbations(i.e., beneficial perturbations) that can be pitted against the adversarial perturbation added on the input image on their corresponding features. The above two steps are repeated until the last backpropagation step before the maximum number of iterations is reached. The optimization process of the adversarial perturbation added on the input image and the optimization process of the beneficial perturbations added on the features correspond to a minimax two-player game. Extensive experiments demonstrate that BPFA outperforms the state-of-the-art gradient-based adversarial attacks on FR.