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Spatial-frequency collaborative adversarial example generation method based on class activation mapping
Erhao SHU, Guoqing TU, Shubo LIU
Journal of Computer Applications    2026, 46 (6): 1881-1892.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2025060701
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To address the limitations of the existing image adversarial example generation methods that only applying global and uniform transformations within a single domain and thereby restricting the attack success rates and the transferability of adversarial examples, a Spatial-Frequency Collaborative adversarial example generation method based on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) (SFC-CAM) was proposed. Firstly, region sensitivity was quantified using CAM, and the input image was divided into high-sensitivity target region and low-sensitivity background region by Adaptive Partitioning (AP) according to the threshold of activation value. Then, for high-sensitivity region, Channel Resampling-Block-wise Random Scaling (CR-BRS) was applied in the spatial domain, while Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) with Spectral Random Masking (DCT-SRM) was conducted in the frequency domain for low-sensitivity region. Finally, adversarial examples were generated on the basis of the average gradient of the co-transformed image iteratively. Experimental results on the ImageNet dataset show that with Inception-v3 as the source model, SFC-CAM improves the average attack success rate by 3.4 and 10.4 percentage points compared with the baseline methods — Channel Augmented Attack Method (CAAM) and Spectrum Simulation Attack (SSA), respectively; compared with the proposed single-domain adversarial attack methods CR-BRS and DCT-SRM, SFC-CAM improves the average attack success rate by 15.9 and 19.7 percentage points, respectively. These verify that SFC-CAM enhances the diversity of surrogate model decision boundaries, thereby achieving model augmentation and improving the black-box attack success rate and transferability of adversarial examples.

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