Adversarial Machine Learning: Attacks, Defenses and Security

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 797

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National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; ML safety/reliability
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Dear Colleagues,

Deep learning has become the gold standard in the area of current artificial intelligence; however, although deep models have exhibited remarkable success in artificial intelligence tasks, they are susceptible to small, imperceptible changes in test instances. This vulnerability poses a serious threat to the robustness of deep models, resulting in significant security issues. Consequently, adversarial machine learning has garnered increasing attention from the artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and security communities, making it a prominent topic of discussion in recent years.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. Foundations of understanding adversarial machine learning;
  2. Theories and algorithms for adversarial attacking;
  3. Robustness certification and property verification techniques;
  4. Adversarial defense against different adversarial attacks;
  5. Adversarial detection techniques against various adversarial attacks;
  6. Empirical analysis of adversarial machine learning;
  7. Novel applications of adversarial machine learning.

Dr. Hong Liu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • adversarial machine learning
  • adversarial attacks and defense
  • robustness certification
  • deep learning
  • applications

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Enhancing Moisture-Induced Defect Detection in Insulated Steel Pipes through Infrared Thermography and Hybrid Dataset
by Reza Khoshkbary Rezayiye, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo and Xavier Maldague
Electronics 2024, 13(9), 1748; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13091748 - 1 May 2024
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It is crucial to accurately detect moisture-induced defects in steel pipe insulation in order to combat corrosion under insulation (CUI). This study enhances the capabilities of infrared thermography (IRT) by integrating it with top-performing machine learning models renowned for their effectiveness in image [...] Read more.
It is crucial to accurately detect moisture-induced defects in steel pipe insulation in order to combat corrosion under insulation (CUI). This study enhances the capabilities of infrared thermography (IRT) by integrating it with top-performing machine learning models renowned for their effectiveness in image segmentation tasks. A novel methodology was developed to enrich machine learning training, incorporating synthetic datasets generated via finite element method (FEM) simulations with experimental data. The performance of four advanced models—UNet, UNet++, DeepLabV3+, and FPN—was evaluated. These models demonstrated significant enhancements in defect detection capabilities, with notable improvements observed in FPN, which exhibited a mean intersection over union (IoU) increase from 0.78 to 0.94, a reduction in loss from 0.19 to 0.06, and an F1 score increase from 0.92 to 0.96 when trained on hybrid datasets compared to those trained solely on real data. The results highlight the benefits of integrating synthetic and experimental data, effectively overcoming the challenges of limited dataset sizes, and significantly improving the models’ accuracy and generalization capabilities in identifying defects. This approach marks a significant advancement in industrial maintenance and inspection, offering a precise, reliable, and scalable solution to managing the risks associated with CUI. Full article
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