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New black-box attack method ColorFD targets remote sensing object detectors

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Researchers have developed ColorFD, a novel black-box physical adversarial attack method designed for remote sensing object detectors. This method utilizes multiple pure-color patches, optimizing their positions and colors through Differential Evolution. ColorFD demonstrates effectiveness against detectors like YOLOv3u, YOLOv5u, and Faster R-CNN, outperforming existing black-box patch attacks and remaining competitive with white-box methods. Physical-world experiments confirm the transferability of these optimized patches from digital simulations to real-world imaging conditions. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more robust object detection systems in remote sensing by highlighting vulnerabilities to physical adversarial attacks.

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New black-box attack method ColorFD targets remote sensing object detectors

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Tiannuo Guo, Guhang Qiu, Yuzhen Xie, Rui Feng, Ligang Li, Deliang Xiang ·

    ColorFD: A Finite-Difference Guided Black-Box Physical Adversarial Attack for Remote Sensing Object Detection

    arXiv:2608.04559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although deep neural network-based remote sensing object detectors have achieved strong performance, they remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing studies mainly focus on digital or white-box settings, whereas black-…

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