Towards Reliable Evaluation and Fast Training of Robust Semantic Segmentation Models
Adversarial robustness has been studied extensively in image classification, especially for the ℓ∞-threat model, but significantly less so for related tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation, where attacks turn out to be a much harder optimization problem than for image classification. We propose several problem-specific novel attacks minimizing different metrics in accuracy and mIoU. The ensemble of our attacks, SEA, shows that existing attacks severely overestimate the robustness of semantic segmentation models. Surprisingly, existing attempts of adversarial training for semantic segmentation models turn out to be weak or even completely non-robust. We investigate why previous adaptations of adversarial training to semantic segmentation failed and show how recently proposed robust ImageNet backbones can be used to obtain adversarially robust semantic segmentation models with up to six times less training time for Pascal-Voc and the more challenging Ade20K. The associated code and robust models are available at https://github.com/nmndeep/robust-segmentation.
2-s2.0-85208535925
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2025
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); 15137 LNCS
1611-3349
0302-9743
180
197
REVIEWED
EPFL
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Milan, Italy | 2024-09-29 - 2024-10-04 | ||