Unnoticed Yet Effective: A Hybrid Physical Camouflage Framework Against DNNs and Human Perception

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Authors: Association for Artificial Intelligence 2026, Yuzhuo Fu, Xian Gao, Ting Liu, Jiacheng Ruan, Mingye Xie
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Abstract

While adversarial attacks can effectively deceive deep neural networks, their real-world applicability is often limited by complex and conspicuous patterns that reveal their attack intent to human observers. To overcome this limitation, we propose UYE, a novel camouflage framework designed to simultaneously mislead DNNs and evade human perception. UYE incorporates two key components: an attention refiner leveraging a pre-trained vision encoder to optimize adversarial patterns for robust attacks across diverse environments, and a perception evaluator trained on CAMO-Critic—a human preference dataset curated using tailored prompts from human-aligned large multimodal models—to ensure natural and unobtrusive camouflage generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UYE outperforms state-of-the-art methods in achieving an optimal balance between human stealth and model deception while maintaining effectiveness in real-world scenarios.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Digital Media Forensic Detection Advanced Neural Network Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
Underline Science Inc.
Publication date
7 January 2026
Language
EN