Fooling Vision and Language Models Despite Localization and Attention Mechanism

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Adversarial attacks are known to succeed on classifiers, but it has been an open question whether more complex vision systems are vulnerable.

• In this paper, we study adversarial examples for vision and language models, which incorporate natural language understanding and complex structures such as attention, localization, and modular architectures.
• In particular, we investigate attacks on a dense captioning model and on two visual question answering (VQA) models.
• Our evaluation shows that we can generate adversarial examples with a high success rate (i.e., > 90%) for these models.