Enhancing transferability of targeted adversarial examples through amplitude spectrum alignment
摘要
Deep neural networks (DNNs) face severe security threats from adversarial examples, particularly transfer-based attacks. Attackers can generate adversarial examples targeting one model to fool multiple other models. Previous works mainly focus on the transferability of untargeted attacks, but it remains a challenge for targeted adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel method that enables the adversarial example generator to simultaneously learn high-level semantic information and low-level visual information of the target class. In contrast, previous methods only focus on the former. Specifically, we leverage the amplitude spectrum of the target class images to learn the low-level visual information and design an amplitude spectrum alignment mechanism. Meanwhile, we introduce a class-aware balancing module that dynamically adjusts the intensity of amplitude information learning based on the target class, enabling the generator to achieve a balance between learning high-level semantic information and low-level visual information. Extensive experiments on ImageNet demonstrate that our attack method achieves better transferability compared to existing targeted attack methods. For instance, when transferring from Densenet121 to