Title: Adversarial Examples that Fool Detectors,
Abstract: An adversarial example is an example that has been adjusted to produce a
wrong label when presented to a system at test time. To date, adversarial
example constructions have been demonstrated for classifiers, but not for
detectors. If adversarial examples that could fool a detector exist, they could
be used to (for example) maliciously create security hazards on roads populated
with smart vehicles. In this paper, we demonstrate a construction that
successfully fools two standard detectors, Faster RCNN and YOLO. The existence
of such examples is surprising, as attacking a classifier is very different
from attacking a detector, and that the structure of detectors - which must
search for their own bounding box, and which cannot estimate that box very
accurately - makes it quite likely that adversarial patterns are strongly
disrupted. We show that our construction produces adversarial examples that
generalize well across sequences digitally, even though large perturbations are
needed. We also show that our construction yields physical objects that are
adversarial.