Locally Optimal Detection of Stochastic Targeted Universal Adversarial Perturbations

Deep learning image classifiers are known to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations of input images. In this paper, we derive the locally optimal generalized likelihood ratio test based detector for detecting stochastic targeted universal adversarial perturbations to a classifier’s input. We employ a two-stage process to learn the detector’s parameters, which involves unsupervised maximum likelihood estimation followed by supervised training and demonstrates better performance of the detector compared to other detection methods on several popular image classification datasets.