F&F Attack: Adversarial Attack against Multiple Object Trackers by Inducing False Negatives and False Positives


Tao Zhou1
Qi Ye1
Wenhan Luo2
Kaihao Zhang3
Zhiguo Shi1
Jiming Chen1

1Zhejiang University, 2Sun Yat-sen University, 3Australian National University

ICCV 2023

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Abstract

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to build moving trajectories for number-agnostic objects. Modern multi-object trackers commonly follow the tracking-by-detection strategy. Therefore, fooling detectors can be an effective solution but it usually requires attacks in multiple successive frames, resulting in low efficiency. Attacking association processes improves efficiency but may require model-specific design, leading to poor generalization. In this paper, we propose a novel False negative and False positive attack (F&F attack) mechanism: it perturbs the input image to erase original detections and to inject deceptive false alarms around original ones while integrating the association attack implicitly. The mechanism can produce effective identity switches against multi-object trackers by only fooling detectors in a few frames. To demonstrate the flexibility of the mechanism, we deploy it to three multi-object trackers (ByteTrack, SORT, and CenterTrack) which are enabled by two representative detectors (YOLOX and CenterNet). Comprehensive experiments on MOT17 and MOT20 datasets show that our method significantly outperforms existing attackers, revealing the vulnerability of the tracking-by-detection paradigm to detection attacks.

Overview of our method.

Main results.

Qualitative results of our method. For each deployment, we list the detection results (i.e., intermediate products) in the first line and the association results (i.e., final outputs of trackers) in the second line. Tracking identities are coded by color.




BibTeX

@inproceedings{zhou2023fnfattack,
title={F&F Attack: Adversarial Attack against Multiple Object Trackers by Inducing False Negatives and False Positives.},
author={Tao Zhou, Qi Ye, Wenhan Luo, Kaihao Zhang, Zhiguo Shi, Jiming Chen},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision},
year={2023}}

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