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Reflection Backdoor: A Natural Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks

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Recent studies have shown that DNNs can be compromised by backdoor attacks crafted at training time. A backdoor attack installs a backdoor into the victim model by injecting a backdoor pattern into a small proportion of the training data. At test time, the victim model behaves normally on clean test data, yet consistently predicts a specific (likely incorrect) target class whenever the backdoor pattern is present in a test example. While existing backdoor attacks are effective, they are not stealthy. The modifications made on training data or labels are often suspicious and can be easily detected by simple data filtering or human inspection. In this paper, we present a new type of backdoor attack inspired by an important natural phenomenon: reflection. Using mathematical modeling of physical reflection models, we propose reflection backdoor (Refool) to plant reflections as backdoor into a victim model. We demonstrate on 3 computer vision tasks and 5 datasets that, Refoolcan attack state-of-the-art DNNs with high success rate, and is resistant to state-of-the-art backdoor defenses.

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 61972012.

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Liu, Y., Ma, X., Bailey, J., Lu, F. (2020). Reflection Backdoor: A Natural Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks. In: Vedaldi, A., Bischof, H., Brox, T., Frahm, JM. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58607-2_11

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