Yeonghwan Song

Yeonghwan Song, Seokwoo Jang, Dina Katabi et al.

We propose a novel unsupervised object localization method that allows us to explain the predictions of the model by utilizing self-supervised pre-trained models without additional finetuning. Existing unsupervised and self-supervised object localization methods often utilize class-agnostic activation maps or self-similarity maps of a pre-trained model. Although these maps can offer valuable information for localization, their limited ability to explain how the model makes predictions remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective unsupervised object localization method based on representer point selection, where the predictions of the model can be represented as a linear combination of representer values of training points. By selecting representer points, which are the most important examples for the model predictions, our model can provide insights into how the model predicts the foreground object by providing relevant examples as well as their importance. Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised and self-supervised object localization methods on various datasets with significant margins and even outperforms recent weakly supervised and few-shot methods.

Chanhui Lee, Yeonghwan Song, Jeany Son

Data-free Universal Adversarial Perturbation (UAP) is an image-agnostic adversarial attack that deceives deep neural networks using a single perturbation generated solely from random noise without relying on data priors. However, traditional data-free UAP methods often suffer from limited transferability due to the absence of semantic content in random noise. To address this issue, we propose a novel data-free universal attack method that recursively extracts pseudo-semantic priors directly from the UAPs during training to enrich the semantic content within the data-free UAP framework. Our approach effectively leverages latent semantic information within UAPs via region sampling, enabling successful input transformations-typically ineffective in traditional data-free UAP methods due to the lack of semantic cues-and significantly enhancing black-box transferability. Furthermore, we introduce a sample reweighting technique to mitigate potential imbalances from random sampling and transformations, emphasizing hard examples less affected by the UAPs. Comprehensive experiments on ImageNet show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in average fooling rate by a substantial margin, notably improves attack transferability across various CNN architectures compared to existing data-free UAP methods, and even surpasses data-dependent UAP methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/ChnanChan/PSP-UAP.