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Understanding the Robustness of Skeleton-based Action Recognition under Adversarial Attack

Wang, H; He, F; Peng, Z; Shao, T; Yang, YL; Zhou, K; Hogg, D; (2021) Understanding the Robustness of Skeleton-based Action Recognition under Adversarial Attack. In: 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). (pp. pp. 14651-14660). IEEE: Nashville, TN, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Action recognition has been heavily employed in many applications such as autonomous vehicles, surveillance, etc, where its robustness is a primary concern. In this paper, we examine the robustness of state-of-the-art action recognizers against adversarial attack, which has been rarely investigated so far. To this end, we propose a new method to attack action recognizers which rely on the 3D skeletal motion. Our method involves an innovative perceptual loss which ensures the imperceptibility of the attack. Empirical studies demonstrate that our method is effective in both white-box and black-box scenarios. Its generalizability is evidenced on a variety of action recognizers and datasets. Its versatility is shown in different attacking strategies. Its deceitfulness is proven in extensive perceptual studies. Our method shows that adversarial attack on 3D skeletal motions, one type of time-series data, is significantly different from traditional adversarial attack problems. Its success raises serious concern on the robustness of action recognizers and provides insights on potential improvements.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Understanding the Robustness of Skeleton-based Action Recognition under Adversarial Attack
Event: 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Location: ELECTR NETWORK
Dates: 19 Jun 2021 - 25 Jun 2021
ISBN-13: 9781665445092
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.01442
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr46437.2021.01442
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Computer vision, Three-dimensional displays, Surveillance, Robustness, Pattern recognition, Autonomous vehicles
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215235
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